CDC adds 16 destinations to 'very high' Covid-19 travel risk list

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added 16 destinations to its "very high" Covid-19 risk level on Monday, including Greece, Ireland and the US Virgin Islands.

Second dose of Vero Cell vaccine against COVID-19 to elderly from today

The government is administering the second dose of the Vero Cell vaccine to people aged 55 and above nationwide from today.

Trade agreements need review: Finance Minister

Finance Minister Janardan Sharma said that the international treaties and conventions to which Nepal is a party should be reviewed to know if they are in the interest of Nepal. “There is a need to assess whether the international trade agreements and treaties that Nepal signed have been fruitful for us. Necessary steps should be taken after reviewing them,” he said after his inspection visit to the Department of Customs (DoC) on Thursday.

Govt will work with private sector: PM

Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba Thursday said that the government would work with private sector for the economic development in the country. During a meeting with the newly elected executive committee of the Confederation of Nepalese Industries (CNI) at his residence in Baluwatar, Prime Minister Deuba assured that the government would take the suggestions of the CNI positively and implement them to accelerate the COVID-19 affected economy

Nepal to observe vaccination week

At a time when the number of COVID-19 cases is increasing day by day, the government is going to celebrate ‘Vaccination Week’. During a meeting of the Education and Health Committee under the House of Representatives (HoR), Minister of State for Health and Population, Umesh Shrestha said that Nepal would celebrate the vaccination week beginning from August 9.

Human Milk Bank A Noble Initiative

To have the best possible start in life is a basic right of every newborn baby. For optimal nutrition and immunological protection of the newborns, the choice of feeding is to latch the baby directly to mother’s breast or provide expressed milk from own mother, and then pasteurised donated human milk. However, many babies are deprived of mother’s milk and are given formula feeds because of baby’s inability to suck due to prematurity, being too small to suck or ill, or maternal illness, abandonment...

Cellphone Addiction Among Teens

As time flies, addictions transform themselves into different forms. A person can show his/her addictive behaviours through different behavioural changes such as difficulty resisting change in the obsessive repetition of similar patterns, difficulty having breaks during i

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Planets, Stars Embellish Heaven

As it darkens, the night skies of this month offer the magnificent marvels of planets, stars and constellations that are embellishing the heavens. Planets Mercury and Mars would be lost in solar glare, due to their proximity to the Sun. They would be moving across the compelling constellation Leo (lion) during the daytime. Planet Venus could be visualised in the western sky after sundown as dusk would fade to darkness. They would be venturing out through the starry fields sprawling across constellations...

Beware of cheats, DoFE tells migrant workers

The Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) has urged aspiring migrant workers to Israel to be vigilant about the increasing fraud using social media, citing that the Department was itself sending workers to Israel. Issuing a press statement on Wednesday, the Department said that no private sector, manpower companies, consultancies, agencies and individuals are allowed to involve in the selection process of Nepali workers to be sent to the Israeli care centres. According to the department, the...