New Zealand becomes the latest country to announce an end to its zero-Covid strategy

New Zealand will begin to move away from a zero-Covid strategy toward living with the virus, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Monday, becoming the latest country to abandon its elimination attempts in the face of the highly contagious Delta variant.

High-density Apple seed production in Mustang

With the establishment of the Fiber Fertilisation Laboratory in the Temperate Horticulture Development centre (THDC), Marpha, of Mustang district, it began producing high-quality seedlings of fruits and vegetables.

Shree Airlines plane skids off taxiway at TIA

While flying from Kathmandu to Nepalgunj, a plane of Shree Airlines has slipped towards the grass field of Taxi Park at Tribhuvan Internation Airport.

1,000 COVID-19 recoveries, 812 new cases in 24 hours

In 5,893 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of persons 812 were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) through its regular update.

Salman Khan visits Shah Rukh Khan at Mannat after Aryan Khan’s arrest in drugs case

Superstar Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan was arrested by Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) office on October 3 following a raid conducted by NCB at an ongoing rave party on Cordelia Cruises' Empress ship in Mumbai. On October 2, he was detained at the NCB office for questioning in the drug bust case.

How we feel touch and temperature wins Nobel Prize

Scientists who discovered how our bodies feel the warmth of the sun or the hug of a loved one have won the Nobel Prize. David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian, from the US, share the 2021 prize in Medicine or Physiology for their work on sensing touch and temperature.

CJ's name irrelevantly dragged in issue concerning cabinet expansion: SC

The Supreme Court said that Chief Justice Cholendra Shumsher JB Rana's name was irrelevantly dragged into the issue concerning the expansion of the Council of Ministers.

Cabinet expansion likely to happen today: Prachanda

Addressing the national assembly of Nepal Intellectuals' Organisation at his party headquarters in Paris Danda, the Chairman of a major ruling party said, "We are making efforts to reach a conclusion so that the oath-taking ceremony is held today itself, but, if this is not achieved, we will surely make the final decision."

Identity of Facebook whistleblower revealed

The identity of the Facebook whistleblower who released tens of thousands of pages of internal research and documents — leading to a firestorm for the social media company in recent weeks — was revealed on "60 Minutes" Sunday night as Frances Haugen.

UP town tense after eight die in farm protests

Security has been tightened in a northern Indian town after eight people, including four protesting farmers, died on Sunday. Violence broke out in the Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh state during a protest against agricultural reforms.