PM Deuba, MC Chair Prachanda and UML Chair Oli holding meeting today

A meeting is scheduled between Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, CPN (Maoist Centre) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' and Chairman of the main opposition party CPN (UML) KP Sharma Oli on Sunday.

Jumla airport resumes services after clearing snow (Photo Feature)

Security personnel have cleared the snow on the runway of Jumla Airport. A team of Nepal Army, Nepal Police and Armed Police Force has cleared the snow on the runway since Saturday morning.

NC's central work performance committee meet on Feb 10.

According to Krishna Prasad Paudel NC central office's principal secretary, the meeting will concentrate mainly on the two agendas - on the sister and well-wishers' organization of the party whose terms have expired and on conducting district conventions in the remaining districts.

Processes to extract iron from Dhauwadi at final phase, 20mln tons of iron to be extracted

With a view to extracting iron from the mines at Dhauwadi, the government has established Dhauwadi Iron Company Limited. The office of the company at present is located at the premises of the Department of Mines and Geology, Lainchaur, Kathmandu.

1,103 new cases, 4,771 recoveries in 24 hours

In 5,225 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 1,103 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its regular update.

The man-made islands emerging from the sea

Nearly two decades in the making, the Heart of Europe forms just one section of The World -- a vast collection of man-made islands roughly in the shape of an atlas -- but when completed it will be the opulent centrepiece.

Eight dead, five injured in Pyuthan Jeep accident

Eight people have been killed and five others injured in a jeep accident in Pyuthan on Saturday early morning. 

US death toll from COVID-19 hits 900,000, sped by omicron

Propelled in part by the wildly contagious omicron variant, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 hit 900,000 on Friday, less than two months after eclipsing 800,000. The two-year total, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is greater than the population of Indianapolis, San Francisco, or Charlotte, North Carolina.

Snowfall obstructs Lamosanghu-Jiri road at Kharidhunga area

Anjan Koirala, police inspector at Dolakha district police office, informed that a pile of snow had covered the road section due to the snowfall. The area had also had snowfall last night as well.

745 fresh cases in 24 hours, 29,183 active cases in Valley

In the past 24 hours, 745 new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in the Kathmandu Valley. According to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHE) out of 745 total new cases of the valley, 570 cases were confirmed in Kathmandu, 120 in Lalitpur and 55 in Bhaktapur district.