POLITICS
NC Spokesperson in home isolation after testing positive for COVID-19
NC Spokesperson in home isolation after testing positive for...
KATHMANDU, May 3: Nepali Congress Spokesperson Bishwa Prakash Sharma has tested positive for COVID-19.
May 03, 2021
SOCIETY
Tokha municipality suspends all but essential services after employees test positive for C...
Tokha municipality suspends all but essential services after...
KATHMANDU, May 3: Tokha Municipality has suspended all its services except for the most essential ones after its employees and elected representatives tested positive for the COVID-19.
May 03, 2021
WORLD, Coronavirus
India's COVID-19 case total nears 20 million
India's COVID-19 case total nears 20 million
NEW DELHI, May 3: India on Monday reported more than 300,000 new coronavirus cases for a 12th straight day, taking its overall caseload to just shy of 20 million, while deaths from COVID-19 rose by 3,417.
May 03, 2021
POLITICS
Nepal requests US govt to provide COVID-19 vaccines
Nepal requests US govt to provide COVID-19 vaccines
KATHMANDU, May 3: Amid sharp spike in the cases of COVID-19, Nepal has requested the US government to provide COVID-19 vaccines.
May 03, 2021
POLITICS
CPN (Maoist Center) seeks revision on the move to reappoint Pokharel as CM
CPN (Maoist Center) seeks revision on the move to reappoint...
KATHMANDU, May 3: The CPN (Maoist Center) has sought to revoke the decision to reappoint Shankar Pokharel as the Chief Minister of Lumbini Province.
May 03, 2021
POLITICS, SOCIETY
How Bangladesh’s fourth estate abandoned its people during the pandemic
How Bangladesh’s fourth estate abandoned its people during t...
The pandemic left Bangladesh's fourth estate, the very profession that demands accountability from state and society, riddled with labour law violations.
May 03, 2021
SOCIETY
Target on their backs
Target on their backs
Honest reporting in Pakistan draws the ire of powerful quarters and some journalists pay the ultimate price
May 03, 2021
NEPAL, SOCIETY, Coronavirus
Nepal’s health reporters brave the pandemic
Nepal’s health reporters brave the pandemic
KATHMANDU, May 3: Kailash Joshi, a journalist from Far West Nepal, has not taken a break from his work for the past one year. Just when he thought that COVID-19, that is wreaking havoc worldwide, was perhaps making an exit from Nepal, 'it came back with a bigger roar'. The country is engulfed by the...
May 03, 2021
SOCIETY
Attacks on press freedom growing bolder amid rising authoritarianism: IPI
Attacks on press freedom growing bolder amid rising authorit...
Collective action needed to stop domino effect of silencing independent media
May 03, 2021
WORLD
Eight reported killed as Myanmar protests aim to ‘shake the world’
Eight reported killed as Myanmar protests aim to ‘shake the...
MYANMAR, May 3: Myanmar security forces opened fire on some of the biggest protests against military rule in days on Sunday killing eight people, media reported, three months after a coup plunged the country into crisis.
May 03, 2021