Local governments still have a long way to go for ensuring a pro-people and deliberative democracy with strong priority towards recognizing the voice of citizens and their meaningful empowerment.

21 still missing in the landslide

Oli appreciates Modi’s ‘renewed priority’ to the neighborhood as spelt out in his today’s Independence Day address

KATHMANDU, Aug 15: With three more COVID-19 related deaths in the last 24 hours, Nepal’s COVID-19 death toll stands at 102 on Saturday.

KATHMANDU, Aug 15: The Department of Commerce, Supplies and Consumer Protection collected more than Rs 1 million in cash fines from traders on the charge of misconduct in the last one week. It is probably the largest amount.......

KATHMANDU, Aug 15: The Ministry of Health and Population has recorded as many as 98  more cases of the novel coronavirus disease in the Kathmandu Valley in the last 24 hours.

KATHMANDU, Aug 15: As many as 468 new cases were detected in the past 24 hours taking Nepal’s COVID-19 tally to 26,019 on Saturday.

MOSCOW, Aug 15: Russia has started manufacturing its new vaccine for COVID-19, the Interfax news agency reported on Saturday, citing the health ministry.

SINDHUPALCHOWK, Aug 15: The death toll in a massive landslide at Golche Lidi of Jugal Rural Municipality-2 has reached 12 with one more dead body recovered from the landslide debris. Twenty seven others are still missing.......

KATHMANDU, Aug 15: Police on Saturday morning arrested an individual for his alleged involvement in stabbing a youth to death at Gorkhali Khaja Ghar, a local eatery in Tokha Municipality-9, Kathmandu.

ITAHARI, Aug 15: The novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was detected in four inmates of Jhumka Prison, the biggest detention center in eastern Nepal, on Saturday.

KATHMANDU, Aug 15: PM Oli and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi held 15-min telephone conversation earlier today.

KATHMANDU, Aug 15: Rainfall in almost all parts of the country has been predicted for the coming three days. Meteorologist at the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, Raju Pradhanang said that the countrywide rainfall.......

NEW DELHI, Aug 15: India is ready to mass produce COVID-19 vaccines when scientists give the go-ahead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his Independence Day speech on Saturday, also launching a national project to roll.......

BUTWAL, Aug 15: A COVID-19 patient from Mayadevi-7, Kapilvastu district died while undergoing treatment at Lumbini Provincial Hospital in Butwal on Saturday.

BHAKTAPUR, Aug 15: The Madhyapur Thimi-based Nepal Korea Friendship Municipality Hospital  has suspended all its services except emergency from Saturday after some of its health workers and employees tested positive for the.......

DELHI, Aug 15: India’s confirmed coronavirus cases have crossed 2.5 million with another biggest single-day spike of 65,002 in the past 24 hours.

SINDHUPALCHOWK, Aug 15: Eleven people, who died in the landslide that took place at Lidi in Jugal Rural Municipality-2 on Friday morning, have been identified. Two men, four women and five children died in the incident, according.......

SANTIAGO, Aug 15: Coronavirus cases in Latin America, the region of the world worst-affected by the pandemic, exceeded 6 million on Friday and continued to accelerate, according to a Reuters tally, as most of its nations.......

BUTWAL, Aug 15: As many as 56 individuals including the COVID-19 focal person tested positive for COVID-19 in Province 5 on Friday.