ECONOMY
Gandaki Province floats 60 plans for tourism development in Baglung
Gandaki Province floats 60 plans for tourism development in...
GALKOT, Dec 24: As many as 60 plans are coming into implementation for tourism development and expansion in Baglung district this year.
Dec 24, 2020
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Two days after NCP split, Chinese ambassador meets Chairman Dahal
Two days after NCP split, Chinese ambassador meets Chairman...
KATHMANDU, Dec 24: Two days after the ruling Nepal Communist Party suffered a split, Chinese Ambassador to Nepal, Hou Yanqi held a meeting with Pushpa Kamal Dahal, the chairperson of the rival faction of the party, on Thursday morning.
Dec 24, 2020
POLITICS, SOCIETY
Civil activists declare mass movement against parliament dissolution
Civil activists declare mass movement against parliament dis...
KATHMANDU, Dec 24: A group of civil society activists has announced a mass civil movement considering the impending constitutional crisis that the country may face after the dissolution of parliament by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli.
Dec 24, 2020
WORLD
A look at the 29 people Trump pardoned or gave commutations
A look at the 29 people Trump pardoned or gave commutations
WASHINGTON, Dec 24: For a second night in a row, President Donald Trump issued a round of pardons and commutations in the final weeks of his presidency, giving full pardons to his former campaign chairman, his son-in-law’s father and another of his allies convicted in special counsel Robert Mueller’...
Dec 24, 2020
SOCIETY
Baitadi jeep accident: one dies, three injured
Baitadi jeep accident: one dies, three injured
BAITADI, Dec 24: A person was killed and three others injured in a jeep accident at Sunarya Rural Municipality-7, Alugaira in Baitadi Thursday morning.
Dec 24, 2020
My City, Lifestyle, Entertainment
Coronavirus: The board game - German sisters' invention sells out for Christmas
Coronavirus: The board game - German sisters' invention sell...
At a loose end during Germany’s first lockdown, the four Schwaderlapp sisters decided to put their long hours indoors to good use - by inventing a coronavirus board game that is selling by the thousands.
Dec 24, 2020
ECONOMY
ADB provides USD 150 million concessional loan for SASEC Airport Capacity Enhancement Proj...
ADB provides USD 150 million concessional loan for SASEC Air...
KATHMANDU, Dec 24: The government of Nepal and Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed US dollar 150 million concessional loan agreement to finance South Asia Sub regional Cooperation (SASEC) Airport Capacity Enhancement Project and US$ 40 million concessional loan and US$10 million grant for the implem...
Dec 24, 2020
NEPAL, SOCIETY
Nepal sees a massive increase in threatened birds species
Nepal sees a massive increase in threatened birds species
KATHMANDU, Dec 23: Gradual loss of jungles and wetlands has continued to take a toll on birds and other wildlife worldwide, and this reflects no less vividly in Nepal, according to ornithologists. Responding to a recently released 2020 red list updates on birds by IUCN, they said that 'single year's...
Dec 24, 2020
WORLD
Millions of U.S. vaccine doses sit on ice, putting 2020 goal in doubt
Millions of U.S. vaccine doses sit on ice, putting 2020 goal...
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LOS ANGELES, Dec 24: Millions of COVID-19 vaccines are sitting unused in U.S. hospitals and elsewhere a week into the massive inoculation campaign, putting the government’s target for 20 million vaccinations this month in doubt.
Dec 24, 2020
My City, Lifestyle, Travel
China 'mines' ice from river to build frozen castles, pagoda
China 'mines' ice from river to build frozen castles, pagoda
For more than 300 “ice miners” in Harbin, work begins in the numbing cold before dawn every day on the frozen Songhua, a broad river that winds its way through the northeastern Chinese city.
Dec 24, 2020