Farmers fail to sell products due to COVID-19 restriction

Milk farmers in Morgan have suffered a loss as they have been unable to sell milk after the local administration imposed a prohibitory order to control COVID-19. The farmers are facing financial crisis after the cooperatives and private milk traders stopped purchasing milk from them while the prices of food grains have skyrocketed. Narayan Koirala of Kanepokhari-3, Rajgunj, who was selling 65 litres of milk a day before the lockdown, is now worried not about the livelihood of his family but also...

Two snow leopards collared in Shey Phoksundo

Two snow leopards were successfully collared in Shey Phoksundo National Park (SPNP) recently. Collared on May 19 in the Rapka area of Saldang, the first leopard was named Ghangri Ghapi Hyul. The enigmatic 7-year-old male cat weighed 37 kgs. The second snow leopard was collared in the Dhora area of Saldang on May 25, and was named Langyen. This 6-year-old male adult snow leopard weighed 38 kgs. Both collared snow leopards were reportedly in sound health and are ranging normally after being fitted...

SCO stresses solidarity against COVID-19

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Forum on People-to-People Friendship, held in Wuhan city, Hubei province of China on Thursday, called for forwarding the “Shanghai Spirit”, deepening solidarity and collaboration, and maintaining peace and stability in the countries of the region.

UN chief gives commendation letter to captain Bista

United Nations Secretary General (UNSG) Antonio Guterres has presented a letter of commendation to Captain Bigyan Bista of the Nepali Army, who is currently serving in the South Sudan peacekeeping mission.

Crafting Democratic Political Order

The spread of coronavirus all over the world has revived the imperative of welfare state as defining political order of society to address the effects of chronic public health crisis and its attendant consequences on scarcity of resources to tackle poverty, unemployment, inequality, marginalisation, increasing disaffection and national dysfunction. These problems cannot be resolved by coping with individual issues in isolation. Welfare-based political order is presumed on the

Role Of Audience In Media Accountability

Can audience be a part of media accountability in Nepal? I think so. This role of audience is possible more in the digital than in the print world. Media accountability systems are the mechanisms to make journalists accountable to the public by pointing out mistakes and malpractices. According to Claude -Jean Bertrand, it covers various mechanisms such as code of ethics, letters to the editor, press councils, and media literacy programmes.

South Korea provides RT-PCR test kits worth USD 200,000

The Government of the Republic of Korea has granted complete sets of RT-PCR test kits worth USD 200,000 through Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) to Nepal. Ambassador Park Chong-suk of South Korea handed over the kits to Dr. Roshan Pokhrel, Chief Specialist, Health Co-ordination Division, Ministry of Health and Population, at the Tribhuvan International Airport on Friday. The PCR test kits are complete sets, composed of three different types of kits required for collection, transfer...

Cabinet reshuffled, President Bhandari administers oath to newly appointed ministers

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MoHP urges hospitals to reserve 20 percent beds for children

If the third and fourth wave hits the country then children will be at high risk so the arrangements must be children-centric

CoronaVac, COVID-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinovac, approved for use in Nepal

Permission has been granted for use of CoronaVac, a Chinese COVID-19 vaccine, manufactured by Sinovac life sciences company limited, in Nepal. The Department of Drug Administration (DDA) granted the approval for the use of the vaccine today.