WORLD, Coronavirus
IMF sees coronavirus-induced global downturn 'way worse' than the financial crisis
IMF sees coronavirus-induced global downturn 'way worse' tha...
WASHINGTON/GENEVA, April 4: The coronavirus pandemic has brought the global economy to a standstill and plunged the world into a recession that will be “way worse” than the global financial crisis a decade ago, the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Friday, calling it “humanity’s darkes...
Apr 04, 2020
ECONOMY, Latest Updates
ADB slashes Nepal's growth projection to 5.3%
ADB slashes Nepal's growth projection to 5.3%
KATHMANDU, April 4: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has projected that Nepal's economy will grow by 5.3% in the current fiscal year 2019/20, down from the growth rate of 7.3% in 2018/19.
Apr 04, 2020
OPINION
Talk to children about coronavirus
Talk to children about coronavirus
Everyone is talking about coronavirus. It is now a pandemic, with schools closed, and the country under lockdown. People are wearing masks. Now their household has hand sanitizer bottles. On top, you instructed everyone to wash their hands every half hour. Even the phone company set the phone's call...
Apr 04, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Jumla villagers show exemplary unity against COVID-19
Jumla villagers show exemplary unity against COVID-19
JUMLA, April 4: Seven people who had gone to Dhipu village of Tila Rural Municipality – 9 to buy fodder for their cattle two days ago returned empty-handed. The locals did not allow them to enter the village. As the novel coronavirus pandemic has been wreaking havoc in the whole world, everyone is a...
Apr 04, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
SC orders govt to submit details of medical institutions ignoring Covid-19 care
SC orders govt to submit details of medical institutions ign...
KATHMANDU, April 4: The Supreme Court on Friday directed the government authorities to submit the details of the medical institutions refusing medical services to suspected coronavirus (COVID-19) patients.
Apr 04, 2020
OPINION
Think big and bold
Think big and bold
Ashish Jha, director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, shared in his recent story for The Washington Post that while the epicenters of COVID 19 will remain Europe and the US for the next few months, it will surely expand to places like Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, and Monrovia. Kathmandu may be add...
Apr 04, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Govt urges public to fill correct info in COVID-19 app
Govt urges public to fill correct info in COVID-19 app
KATHMANDU, April 4: The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Friday urged the public to fill correct information about themselves in a newly-launched mobile application on COVID-19, after finding that the information – addresses, phone numbers, names – entered by many people were incorrect.
Apr 04, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Under fire over expressway consultancy process, Army changes letter's subject
Under fire over expressway consultancy process, Army changes...
KATHMANDU, April 4: In what appears to be an admission of a mistake in the process of picking a South Korean joint venture firm as consultant for the Kathmandu-Tarai Fast Track (Expressway) project, the Nepal Army has corrected its previous letter to the firm as 'Letter of Information'. The letter s...
Apr 04, 2020
SOCIETY, Republica Watch, Latest Updates
Panic spikes as PM's IT guru Ali has access to people's private data
Panic spikes as PM's IT guru Ali has access to people's priv...
KATHMANDU, April 4: ExtensoData, the prime minister's IT consultant Asgar Ali's data company, has many senior government officials worried over 'possible misuse of government data'. ExtensoData, established in 2018, is one of many subsidiaries of F1Soft International, where Ali is vice president. It...
Apr 04, 2020
POLITICS, Latest Updates
NC leader Koirala urges PM to sack Ali
NC leader Koirala urges PM to sack Ali
KATHMANDU, April 4: A senior leader of the main opposition party, Nepali Congress (NC), Shekhar Koirala has asked Prime Minister KP Oli to immediately sack his IT consultant Asgar Ali as the latter has courted a serious controversy for his alleged involvement in removing of news content from a Kathm...
Apr 04, 2020