Karnali, Gandaki and Province 1 see rise in COVID-19 cases

Karnali, Gandaki and Province 1 are listed to have the highest coronavirus infection rate in the last two weeks.

NC top leaders agree to solve membership row in three days

Top leaders of the Nepali Congress Wednesday agreed to end its active membership row within three days. A meeting of the leaders held at party president and Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's private residence in Budhanilkantha reached this agreement. Party president Deuba, senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel, leader Krishna Prasad Sitaula and party active membership probe committee coordinator Ramesh Lekhak and its members were present in the meeting. The meeting concluded to continue the discussion...

Khasur unveils laws for own village

The people of Khasur, Besishahar Municipality–10, have introduced their own set of laws. The laws, aimed at governing the overall socio-economic state of Khasur including, but not limited to, cultural practices, market prices and wages for the coming year, were formulated by the ‘governance gathering’ that is held in the village every year.

Vaishnava preserving artefacts in his private museum

It has been 21 years since Vaishnava Raj Shrestha, 69, has been operating a private museum beneath the Changu Narayan Temple. It was when the then government decided to celebrate 1998 as Visit Nepal Year that Shrestha became motivated to open up a museum where he could preserve as much history and culture as he could. "There were many objects with great cultural and historical importance during my early days. But slowly our culture and history started disappearing and it made me unhappy. When the...

‘Return historical tea gardens to local levels’

Six municipalities in eastern Nepal have demanded that the historical public tea gardens, now managed by the private companies, be returned. Chiefs of the municipalities and rural municipalities of Jhapa and Ilam districts took that decision at a meeting held on Monday in Suryodaya Municipality in Ilam. The government had given the management of seven tea gardens -- four in Ilam and three in Jhapa -- to Triveni Shanghai Group for 50 years, and has sold 65 per cent of their shares to the business...

Senior citizens in Limi awaiting 2nd jab

Senior citizens in the remote region of Limi in Humla district have not received their second dose of coviehield. They had received the first dose in March. Phurbu Tamang, 64, of Halji village in Namkha Rural Municipality–6, complained that he had been waiting for four months to get the second dose of the jab. He said that the residents of the three villages of Limi were concerned about the incomplete vaccination, especially when the number of COVID-19 cases is rising again in the country. Local...

MPs stress diplomatic initiative on Mahakali incident

Lawmakers in the National Assembly on Wednesday stressed the need of diplomatic deal with India to solve the Mahakali incident in which a Nepali national went missing on Friday after the Sashatra Seema Bal (SSB), the border guarding force of India, unknotted the wire bridge through which he was crossing the river.

US plans to require COVID-19 shots for foreign travelers

The Biden administration is taking the first steps toward requiring nearly all foreign visitors to the U.S. to be vaccinated for the coronavirus, a White House official said Wednesday.

Ex-IGPs urge PM Deuba to scrap decision to shift Police Academy

Former Inspector Generals of the Nepal Police on Wednesday demanded reversal of the decision taken by the previous government to shift the Nepal Police Academy from Maharajgunj, Kathmandu, to Panauti of Kavrepalanchowk district. A delegation of 15 ex-IGPs reached the official residence of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba in Baluwatar and handed over him a memorandum, asking to revoke the decision of the previous government to shift the Academy to Panauti.

Bring policy reforms to make public enterprises profit earning: FM Sharma

Finance Minister Janardan Sharma has directed the Financial Sector Management and Corporation Coordination Division to start preparations for the policy and legal reforms to transform the government-run corporations into profit making companies.