SOCIETY
Home Ministry instructs its bodies to tighten lockdown
Home Ministry instructs its bodies to tighten lockdown
KATHMANDU, April 27: The Home Ministry has instructed its subordinate bodies to ensure effective implementation of lockdown against the global pandemic of coronavirus. Issuing a circular to all district administration offices today, the Ministry has asked them to ban the movement of vehicles sans ea...
Apr 27, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates, Coronavirus
Muslim workers forced to leave jobs in Rupandehi
Muslim workers forced to leave jobs in Rupandehi
BHAIRAHAWA, April 27: Laborers have been expelled from industry in Rupandehi citing the coronavirus infection fears.
Apr 27, 2020
SOCIETY
67 Indians tested negative in RDT in Banke
67 Indians tested negative in RDT in Banke
KOHALPUR, April 27: The Rapid Diagnostic Test ( RDT) reports of 67 Indians, who are being quarantined at the Kohalpur-based Hawaldar Ram Secondary School, have come negative.
Apr 27, 2020
ECONOMY, SOCIETY, Latest Updates, Coronavirus
Lockdown creating opportunity for vegetable farmers in Karnali
Lockdown creating opportunity for vegetable farmers in Karna...
SURKHET, April 27: Dinesh Rawal, a resident of Sidhhakumakh Rural Municipality in Salyan district runs an agriculture farm in Panchapuri Municipality-9, Bijuma in the western part of Surkhet. A 10+2 graduate, Rawal has taken 40 ropanis of land on lease for vegetable farming. Eighteen local people ha...
Apr 27, 2020
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Kathmandu District Court orders police to release ex-secretary Bhim Upadhyay on Rs 25,000...
Kathmandu District Court orders police to release ex-secreta...
KATHMANDU, April 27: The District Court, Kathmandu, has ordered the police to release former government secretary Bhim Upadhyay on Rs 25,000 bail.
Apr 27, 2020
WORLD, Coronavirus
Bangladesh restarts some garment factories, India debates an easing of restrictions
Bangladesh restarts some garment factories, India debates an...
NEW DELHI/DHAKA, April 27: More than 500 garment factories in Bangladesh that supply to global brands reopened on Monday after a month-long shutdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus, while in India calls grew for an easing of its lockdown which has caused deep economic pain.
Apr 27, 2020
SOCIETY, Coronavirus
Activists running food distribution campaign in Valley amid lockdown
Activists running food distribution campaign in Valley amid...
KATHMANDU, April 27: A group of social activists has provided food and relief materials to people hit hard by the ongoing nationwide lockdown.
Apr 27, 2020
SOCIETY, Infographic, Republica Watch, Latest Updates
Former secy Upadhyay’s arrest shows govt hell-bent on silencing critics
Former secy Upadhyay’s arrest shows govt hell-bent on silenc...
KATHMANDU, April 27: The recent arrest of former secretary Bhim Upadhyay by the police on the charge of cybercrime has been largely perceived as the government's deliberate attempt to stifle critical voices.
Apr 27, 2020
SOCIETY, Coronavirus
Berger Paint Nepal providing financial help to its painters
Berger Paint Nepal providing financial help to its painters
KATHMANDU, April 27: Berger Paint Nepal has started providing monetary support to painters associated with the company amid the lockdown imposed by the government to curb the spread of COVID-19.
Apr 27, 2020
OPINION
Go digital on diplomacy
Go digital on diplomacy
The outbreak of COVID-19 has badly hit diplomacy. Several international diplomatic conclaves, conferences, and high-level diplomatic trips are on pause. Diplomats are being asked to stay at home. Meeting rooms in the Foreign Ministries and Embassies see no human presence. Most of the international o...
Apr 27, 2020