Mid-hill Highway being blacktopped following health safety

Works on blacktopping of Baglung’s Upallachaur to Ghodabandhe section of the Pushpalal Mid-hill Highway have started.

Local leaders, officials visit public, provide support

“It is our responsibility as elected representatives that we help our people and in times of pandemic, our responsibility expands. So we have started visiting our people by reaching their homes with a medical team,” said Kharmaya Bitalu, vice-chariperson of Malika Rural Municipality.

Local bodies in Valley to manage free food for poor

Chief District Officer (CDO) of Kathmandu Kali Prasad Parajuli Wednesday said that the government has managed free food and drinking water facility for the poor and needy citizens residing in the Kathmandu Valley throughout the restriction period.

Private sector urges to resolve tax duplication

Private sector has urged the government for resolving tax duplication. Issuing a joint statement on Wednesday, Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI), Nepal Chamber of Commerce (NCC) and Confederation of Nepalese Industry (CNI) urged the government to make tax collection by the local levels more effective and systematic.

Employee shoots, kills 8 at California rail yard, police say

An employee opened fire Wednesday at a California rail yard, killing eight people before taking his own life as law enforcement rushed in, authorities said, marking the latest attack in a year that has seen a sharp increase in mass killings as the nation emerges from coronavirus restrictions.

Paddy plantation begins in Myagdi

Paddy plantation has started in Beni Municipality-4 and Arjkhola area of ​​Mangala Rural Municipality-3 in the Himalayan district of Myagdi. Like other regions of the country, the coronavirus pandemic has not spared the district, where both the positivity rate and the resulting fatalities are high.

Private hospitals charge 'discharge cost' to patients

Many private hospitals in the district, which had been charging high fees on various grounds, have now started charging even for discharging patients. For an instance, Sparsha Hospital, Birgunj had charged Shyam Jalan, a patient, Rs. 215,000 for providing health services for a week, excluding the cost of medicines. Similarly, Tek Narayan Khatiwada had to pay Rs. 39,000 for oxygen support provided for three days at Prabhu Hospital.

Illegal sanitiser found to contain toxic substance

The government authorities have requested the public to be aware of substandard sanitisers before buying or selling one, as unregistered and substandard sanitisers are readily available in the market. They have also started effective investigation in an effort to bust such manufacturers. Recently, the Metropolitan Crime Division arrested Aashish Pyakurel, 26, owner of Tripureshwor-based Lifeline Surgical Suppliers House. He has been arrested on charge of selling substandard hand sanitisers amid...

Urgency Of Vaccines

The world is now in a fierce battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Up to now over 3.38 million people have succumbed to the virus that first spread in late December 2019. Owing to its highly contagious nature, it travelled fast across the world. Its mutational quality made it dangerously fatal. As a result, its second and third waves are hitting the nations leaving behind a trail of deaths and scenes of desolation. Despite loss of lives and economies on an enormou

Political Expediency Overrules Ethics

Nepal is mired in the whirlpool of political quagmire. When the political stakeholders agreed to end the 10-year-long armed insurgency and elect the constituent assembly to write the federal constitution, it was assumed that the issues driving the nation into all types of political and social conflicts would be resolved once and for all. Thankfully, the nation got the federal democratic constitution in 2015 enacted by the constituent assembly which was promulgated by the president of the republic...