DOTI, June 5: Health authorities in the Far Western Province (FWP) have been asked not to collect throat swab samples for Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests for the coming five days.

KATHMANDU, June 2: The local administration in Kathmandu has remanded nine businessmen who were arrested on the charge of gambling for five days into police custody.

KATHMANDU, Feb 24: Four veteran Sherpa climbers left on Monday for Mount Everest on a mission to climb the world’s highest mountain in five days from the Nepali side, aiming to set a record for its shortest winter ascent in nearly three decades, hiking officials said.