NOC to stock fuel in full capacity

The state-owned petroleum supplier - Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) - has initiated to increase fuel stock considering the possibility of obstruction in its supply with the beginning of second wave of COVID-19. “We have instructed all our depots to run at full capacity and keep required quantity of petroleum products in stock as soon as the second wave of COVID-19 started,” said Binitmani Upadhyay, spokesperson of NOC. The Corporation has given this instruction to prevent any impact on the supply...

Check Fake Certificates

Certificate tampering in nothing new in the country where many professions are fraught with people, some in the high echelons of their profession, having counterfeit or doctored certificates. These fraudsters have been involved in immoral and illicit acts of forging certificates and personal documents to get fat jobs, perquisites and swift promotions. Authorities have arraigned many people with tampered documents or certificates, which they have presented to achieve their goals of getting jobs, promotion...

Emergence Of New Coronavirus Strains

The coronavirus has spread to almost the entire world after over a year of the first case reported from Wuhan, China. In recent times, various new strains of the coronavirus have been reported from around the world which indicates that the virus is mutating rapidly. These mutations are of concern not only as they have been found more contagious and/ or deadly but also the fact that the rate at which virus mutating may invalidate or make vaccine developed so far less effective.

Plea To Scientists

Saila Tamang, a snack shopkeeper near Rudramati Chowk, was popular among his colleagues, friends and customers because of his hoarse voice and his remarks on politicians, people and contemporary issues. He was popularly known as Sanldai among them. We, the inhabitants around his hotel, used to laugh at his conservation with his customers in his stall.

Water from Yangri, Larke in four years

The Melamchi Water Supply Project (MWSP) is set to bring water of Yangri and Larke rivers to the Kathmandu Valley within next four years. About 340 million litres of water per day would be brought to the valley from the two rivers in Sindhupalchok district in the second phase of the MWSP in addition to the current 170 million litres per day (MLD) from the Melamchi River.

Hailstorm destroys vegetables worth  Rs. 480m

An inspection committee of the Agriculture Division at Chhathar Jorpati prepared and made public a report of hailstorm’s damage. The damage was higher in Ward 2, 5 and 6 of the local level while three other wards also saw some damage.

NOC to stock fuel in full capacity

“We have instructed all our depots to run at full capacity and keep required quantity of petroleum products in stock as soon as the second wave of COVID-19 started,” said Binitmani Upadhyay, spokesperson of NOC.

Wife arrested on charge of murdering her husband

As the police began to investigate the case, they sent the samples of the foods which were eaten by Bishnu for test at the laboratory. When the authorities received the viscera report and the testing result of the samples on July 24, 2017, they found that Bishnu had died of poison.

Drought exacerbates villages’ water woes

“Water crisis has always been an issue here. But the situation is worse this year. The well has dried up and we have to carry buckets full of water from the river for a long distance, while also spilling precious water along the way,” she said.

Vegetable price increases by 69 per cent

Price of vegetables and fruits has skyrocketed. Price of vegetables has gone up by 69 percent while that of fruits by 41 percent.