Rs 100 million worth of emergency fund to fight COVID-19

Metropolis ward, small, medium and big, each would receive Rs 200,000, Rs 300,000 and Rs 400,000 respectively from the fund to check and control the infection, said the metropolis mayor Bidya Sundar Shakya after the meeting.

Revenue collection slumps in Biratnagar customs office

During the period, the customs office was supposed to collect Rs 33.3 billion rupees.

Govt to tighten checks at southern transits with India

A meeting of the national disaster risk reduction and management authority at Singha Durbar on Thursday took a decision in this regard.

440-bed quarantine in state 1 for potential COVID-19 outbreak

Three separate venues of Jhapa, Morang and Udayapur have been selected for quarantine in the State.

President Bhandari, PM Oli exchange greetings with Myanmar leaders

Separately, Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, State Counsellor of Myanmar also exchanged message of felicitations.

Parliamentary Committee issues 10-point directives on COVID-19 to government

Today's meeting of the committee issued such directives including making arrangement of ICU and isolation ward at health institutions across the country as per the population density, providing medical equipment to test coronavirus and making arrangement to stock medicines.

State-1 Assembly postponed until another notice

Speaker at the state assembly Pradeep Kumar Bhandari informed that the meeting would be postponed until another notice was issued.

Bus torched in Dang

It is said the bus had been kept parked at the site for three months. Area Police Office Tulsipur's Inspector Chakra Damar Pal said the bus owned by Suman Karki of Tulsipur Sub-metropolitan City-5 has been found torched.

Indian ambassador Kwatra calls on Minister Aryal

According to the secretariat of the Minister, during the meeting they held discussions on bilateral issues and issues of common interest.

Public Service Commission exams put off 

The Public Service Commisison (PSC) has suspended the examinations it has been conducting.     Commission's under-secretary Ek Narayan Sharma said a meeting of the PSC office-bearers has decided to postpone all the examinations that were to be conducted from March 21 until April 12 to adopt precaution against COVID -19 infection.