Arghakhanchi Cement builds health post in Siyari

Arghakhanchi Cement Private Limited has built a well-facilitated health post in Mainahiya of Siyari Rural Municipality – 2 in Rupandehi district. Health and Population Minister of Lumbini Province Bhoj Prasad Shrestha and Director of Arghakhanchi Cement Rajesh Kumar Agrawal jointly inaugurated the building of the health post on Wednesday. The company has handed over the building with necessary health facility like health consultation, x-ray and blood pressure measurement. According to it, about...

Karnali Corridor track completes in Humla

Nepali Army has completed the track opening of the Karnali Corridor in four years in Humla section after taking the responsibility of the north-south road project. It opened the road through 11 insurmountable cliffs and opened the track through rocky hills to complete the national pride project. The NA had continued the construction work even during the COVID-19 pandemic. About 39 kilometres road section, from Kawadi to Sali Salla, passes through Humla. The Army had started the work on 22 March...

Sishuwa-Sisaghat road constructed

There are a host of roads in the country that are both historically and culturally significant, some of which are in dilapidated condition or yet to be constructed from scratch. One of them is Sishuwa- Sisaghat corridor in Kaski district which was conceived as Kathmandu-Jumla Highway during the time of late King Mahendra. Recently, Rupa Rural Municipality in the district has upgraded the corridor by constructing it as a motorable road, materalising the dream of linking Kathmandu with Jumla via Pokhara....

Efforts to bring vaccines getting positive response: PM Oli

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that the efforts are continuing at different levels and channels to get vaccines from different countries to inoculate all eligible Nepali citizens. We have made approaches to the UN, WHO, World Bank and different diplomatic mission representatives and we have received positive response and assurances, the Prime Minister said. I now urge the international community to provide us vaccines against COVID-19 as we still need around 37.5 million doses of vaccines...

Laudable Vaccine Support

Since the resurgence of the deadly second wave of COVID-19 in Nepal, the country has been grappling with this unprecedented public health challenge. It has been quite difficult for the country with a poor healthcare system to deal with such a devastating situation. In the initial days, it was a Herculean task for the government to manage oxygen and other essential medical supplies for hospitals taking care of the COVID-19 patients. However, doctors and other health workers have be

Buddha's Ethical Guidelines To Media

This year Lord Buddha’s 2565th birth anniversary was celebrated amidst low-profle activities owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. Limited number of monks and Buddhist performed rituals by maintaining social distance and health safety rules. They recalled the Buddha’s

End The Vaccine Apartheid

With over three million dead and millions more infected by coronavirus globally, the pandemic toll keeps spiking threatening humanity. In no other area is found the stark poor-rich divide as in our fight against the virus, the most challenging global health crisis of our time.

Stop Vaccine Monopolies

While curves of COVID-19 infections and deaths have kept on picking up in many developing nations, nine owners of companies manufacturing vaccines against this pandemic have entered the Forbes List of billionaires. This is certainly a big irony.

Cyclone Yaas’s impact to last till Saturday

Rain and snow have been falling in several parts of the country since Wednesday evening due to the indirect effects of the powerful cyclone ‘Yaas’ that wreaked havoc in India. Rainfall in the mid hills from the east to mid-west and snowfall in the high mountain region of eastern Nepal to mid-west will continue till Saturday, according to Barun Poudel, senior meteorologist at the Meteorological Forecasting Division (MFD).

Govt to unveil budget tomorrow

The government is all set to announce the budget of the coming fiscal year 2021/22 through an ordinance on Jestha 15 of the Nepali calendar which falls on Saturday, as per the constitutional provision. President Bidya Devi Bhandari will read the budget. According to the ceiling given to the Ministry of Finance (MoF) by the National Planning Commission and the ministry sources, the size of the budget is said to be around Rs. 1.7 trillion.