Address Global Vaccine Needs

With only a fraction of global population having been administered COVID-19 vaccine and the spread of highly transmissible Delta virus in many parts of the world, the task of getting people inoculated quicker is becoming more challenging. This situation is more pathetic in low- and middle-income countries, where millions of people still remain unvaccinated despite the fact that the wealthy nations have started providing booster shots to their population at risk.

Fast Food Hazards

Today, fast food has become a way of life for everyone. Each day more and more fast food restaurants are opening up globally to meet the demand of the growing population. However, these busy restaurants might be adding flustering ingredients in the name of service. Around June this year, a Filipino woman posted online about her takeaway order from Jollibee, a Philippines based multinational chain of fast food restaurants. She had ordered fried chicken for her son. When trying to slice the chicken...

NC convention from today, Paudel braces to have single candidate

The Nepali Congress is all set to hold its lower committee or the ward level general convention from Friday. NC Central Election Committee coordinator Mahadev Yadav informed that the 14th general convention begins from Friday in 56 districts, where the active membership issue was resolved. Meanwhile, NC rival faction led by senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel on Thursday said the faction would choose a single party president candidate by forging a consensus. Orgnising a press meet at the party central...

Cabinet expansion only after Sept 7: Leaders

Chairman of CPN (Unified Socialist) Madhav Kumar Nepal said there was no chance of cabinet expansion before September 8. Talking with journalists while assuming office as the parliamentary party leader in Singha Durbar on Thursday, Nepal said no one would utter a word about cabinet expansion till September 8. Chairman Nepal also said that there was no discussion on the issue despite he had met with CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda.’ On Thursday morning, Chairman Nepal...

Night-vision laser guns to monitor vehicle speed

The Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (MTPD) has started monitoring speed of vehicles in the Valley roads during the night with night-vision laser speed guns in a bid to reduce cases of accidents. Speeding is the second major cause of road accidents in the Valley behind driver’s negligence. The MTPD data shows 729 out of 8,935 road accidents in fiscal year 2020/21 were due to overspeeding; 7,425 of the accidents happened because of driver’s negligence.

Nepal-India friendly football match ends in a draw, 1-1

At the match held at Dasharath Stadium, Nepali footballer Anjan Bist led Nepal with a goal in 36 minutes of the game by scoring a goal while Indian player Aniruddha Thapa equalized the game as he scored a goal for India in 60 minutes of the game.

Schools in Valley likely to resume classes in physical presence next week

"We will see to what extent the infection has come down in the metropolis and if we find the virus infection has decreased, we will allow resumption of school classes in the physical presence of the students and teachers," said Ram Prasad Subedi, chief of education division of the KMC.

Sadhguru returns after Kailash visit

According to tourism entrepreneur Bijay Lama, Sadhguru made his way from Lumi Tumling, where he was staying, to Lapacha on foot on Tuesday and viewed the holy mountain and lake from Lapcha.

Drug smuggling thrives in Jhapa

Smuggling and trading of the contraband have been on the rise from the district’s southern border point although the security personnel has been tightening the border in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

MoHP reports 1,619 new cases of COVID-19, 1,846 recoveries, 16 fatalities

In 10,6 58 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 1,619 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population in its daily update.