Passengers flying to Hong Kong must have PCR test reports from govt labs

Passengers flying to Hong Kong from Nepal via Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) must possess negative PCR-test report of COVID-19 from the government-owned laboratories, not from the private ones. The central laboratory of the government has been entrusted with this responsibility. The new decision was taken on Thursday after holding a discussion with the representatives of the Ministry of Health, NAC and other agencies. Earlier, the passengers travelling to Hong Kong via NA used to take COVID-19...

False PCR reports land NAC in trouble

On October 2, five passengers who flew to Hong Kong from Nepal showing negative PCR test reports later tested positive when the Hong Kong administration re-tested them. Two days after the incident, Hong Kong suspended Nepal's flight permit from October 4 to 17. The same ordeal was repeated after the flight ban was lifted. On October 19, nine passengers who flew from Nepal with negative reports tested positive in Hong Kong. This time, Hong Kong banned flights to Nepal from October 22 to November...

Policemen quit jobs for greener pasture in foreign lands: Report

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Naravane's visit likely to renew bilateral ties

Indian Army Chief General Manoj Mukunda Naravane is arriving in Kathmandu on a three-day official visit to Nepal on November 4. Naravane is visiting Nepal at the invitation of Chief of the Army Staff (CoAS) General Purnachandra Thapa. The visit is taking place in the wake of border disputes between the two neighbours after India published its new political map including Nepali territory on November 2, 2019.

Two dozen foreign channels come under clean feed system

Advertisement-free programmes have started broadcasting to Nepali televisions with the implementation of clean feed policy on foreign television channels. Foreign channels have started broadcasting as per the clean feed policy after the Advertising (Regulations) Act-2019 set a date of 23 October, 2020 for its compulsory implementation. In the initial one or two days, the channels went blank and even the customers and distributors were getting confused. When the sports channels were turned off due...

Monsoon-induced death toll highest in a decade with 347 casualties

Monsoon for this season has already receded from Nepal from October 16. But in comparison to the last 10 years’ record of natural disasters, the highest number of human casualties took place this year along with the highest number of reported incidents of natural disaster. According to National Disaster Risk Reduction Management Authority (NDRRMA), monsoon season this year began on June 12 and within the span of monsoon, the highest number of incidents of landslides and floods - 911 in total took...

New guideline issued on COVID-19 rescue flights

The government has issued a new guideline for airlifting people critically infected with the coronavirus from any part of the country. Nepali Army choppers will be used for rescue work with priority. "Even though the government has been bearing the entire cost of the coronavirus treatment till now, the patients who get rescued have to bear the cost themselves," according to Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, joint secretary and spokesperson at Ministry of Health and Population and spokesperson of CCMC-OPs. As...

11,100 Sindhupalchowk households at risk of landslides: Report

A preliminary survey report prepared on the relocation of risky settlements in Sindhupalchowk district has pointed out that 347 settlements of the district are at high risk of landslides and floods at any time. The report submitted to Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa Badal last Friday in Singha Durbar has pointed out that all 12 local bodies of the district are at risk of landslides and floods. There are 11,109 households in those 347 risky settlements, according to the report.

Public vehicles disregarding safety protocol

While the risk of coronavirus infection remains high, it has become riskier to travel by public vehicles these days. Some passengers travelling by public vehicles said the virus infection risk is always there as they have neither sanitizers, nor do they maintain proper distancing and follow mandatory provision of boarding only 50 per cent passengers of their total seat capacity. Only vehicle fares have been increased, passengers complained.

Govt paves way for police integration

The government has finally paved the way for concluding the police integration process in all the seven States after President Bidya Devi Bhandari Monday issued the Nepal Police and State Police (Operation, Supervision and Coordination) First Amendment Ordinance as recommended by the government. Along with the police integration ordinance President Bhandari today issued two other ordinances related to acid and other harmful chemical regulation ordinance and some amendments in the Criminal (Code)...