SOCIETY, Coronavirus
Machhapuchhre Rural Municipality in Kaski closes service for six days to curb spread of co...
Machhapuchhre Rural Municipality in Kaski closes service for...
KASKI, March 26: Machhapuchhre Rural Municipality in Kaski district has suspended its services for the next six days owing to the rising cases of COVID-19.
Mar 26, 2021
ECONOMY
More than 700,000 people waiting for trials after filling out online forms for driving lic...
More than 700,000 people waiting for trials after filling ou...
KATHMANDU, March 26: Online form submission for acquiring a driving license that was suspended due to COVID-19 was reopened in the third week of December last year. The number of people filling out online license forms after 10 months of suspension has increased significantly. More than 700,000 serv...
Mar 26, 2021
WORLD
India’s PM Modi faces big electoral test in Muslim areas
India’s PM Modi faces big electoral test in Muslim areas
NEW DELHI, March 26: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist party are making a serious bid for electoral victories in three states that have sizeable minority Muslim populations. But the Bharatiya Janata Party has for years been accused of stoking religious polarization and d...
Mar 26, 2021
WORLD
More than 300 people killed since Myanmar's coup
More than 300 people killed since Myanmar's coup
MYANMAR, March 26: Myanmar’s security forces have killed more than 300 people in attempts to crush opposition to a Feb. 1 coup, with nearly 90% of victims shot dead and a quarter of them shot in the head, according to data from an advocacy group and local media.
Mar 26, 2021
OPINION
Boxed in on China
Boxed in on China
China is a challenge for the US but also an opportunity. The US-China relationship is far too important.
Mar 26, 2021
ECONOMY
Nepal is self-reliant in egg, milk powder, butter and meat: Govt
Nepal is self-reliant in egg, milk powder, butter and meat:...
KATHMANDU, March 26: The government has claimed that Nepal has become self-reliant in a number of farm products including egg, milk powder, butter and meat.
Mar 26, 2021
WORLD
India has not banned COVID-19 vaccine exports, will keep supplying in phased manner - gove...
India has not banned COVID-19 vaccine exports, will keep sup...
NEW DELHI, March 26: India has not imposed a ban on coronavirus vaccine exports and New Delhi will continue to supply vaccines in a phased manner, a government source told Reuters on Thursday.
Mar 26, 2021
WORLD, Coronavirus
Brazil hits record 100,000 coronavirus cases in a day, piling pressure on Bolsonaro
Brazil hits record 100,000 coronavirus cases in a day, pilin...
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 26: Brazil on Thursday registered a record 100,158 new coronavirus cases within 24 hours, the Health Ministry said, underlining the scale of a snowballing outbreak that is becoming a major political crisis for President Jair Bolsonaro.
Mar 26, 2021
WORLD
China sanctions UK entities, individuals for Xinjiang 'lies'
China sanctions UK entities, individuals for Xinjiang 'lies'
CHINA, March 26: China sanctioned organisations and individuals in the United Kingdom on Friday over what it called “lies and disinformation” about Xinjiang, days after Britain imposed sanctions for human rights abuses in the western Chinese region.
Mar 26, 2021
SOCIETY
Bhagarathi murder case: DNA of accused matched
Bhagarathi murder case: DNA of accused matched
BAITADI, March 25: The DNA of the vaginal swab of Bhagarathi Bhatta who was raped and murdered in Baitadi district in early February has matched that of the accused.
Mar 25, 2021