‘We are lucky for getting vaccinated’

Usha Adhikari of Dhangadhi Sub-Metropolitan City-12, in Kailali district is a health volunteer. Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, she was exposed to the risk of virus infection. Adhikari, who had been serving people round-the-clock amid the pandemic is now delighted to be receiving the COVID-19 vaccine.

Classes continue in Limi despite extreme cold

According to Khyandap Tamang, a local of Halji village, classes are still going on in the two schools of Namkha Rural Municipality - 6 despite the frigid cold. “Parents dress their wards up in warm clothes and send them to school so that they do not miss classes,” he said. “When the sun isn’t shining, the schools make fires to keep their pupils cosy.”

Dailekh, Kalikot linked with north-south road network

The road section will be an important route for tourists heading to and from the famous Rara Lake while observing the Panchkoshi pilgrimage site of Dailekh and it will boost tourism business, said chairman Budha. The locals are happy after the road connected their area.

283 new cases of COVID-19, 246 recoveries in last 24 hours

"In 4,382 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 283 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2," informed Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson at the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in the regular press briefing.

MoHA directs government-owned vehicles to install embossed number plate immediately

Stating that the government-owned vehicles were misused by installing private (red) number plates, the MoHA issued the directive to the Armed Police Force, Department of Immigration, Department of Prison Management, and District Administration Office of all 77 districts to immediately install the embossed number plate in vehicles.

Fire consumes 30 houses of Guthi, a remote village in Jumla, Police reaches the site to collect loss details

The locals said that the security forces could not reach the village in time to douse the fire and the village was burned to ashes despite utmost efforts from the locals to put it off by fetching water from the only running tap of drinking water in the village.

Indonesian volcano unleashes river of lava in new eruption

Indonesia’s most active volcano erupted Wednesday with a river of lava and searing gas clouds flowing 1,500 meters (4,900 feet) down its slopes.

Front-line health workers happy and delighted to get vaccinated

The COVID-19 vaccination drive has kicked off in Nepal from today. In the first phase of the vaccination campaign, front-line health workers including doctors, nurses, sanitation workers, people involved in the management of the dead body of virus-infected people, and ambulance drivers among others are being vaccinated across the nation.

Prime Minister inaugurates COVID-19 vaccination drive in Nepal

Stating that Nepal was the second SAARC nation after India to start the vaccination roll-out, minister Tripathi said that the COVID-19 vaccines would be administrated to 12,000 frontline health workers across the nation today.

GOP largely sides against holding Trump impeachment trial

All but five Senate Republicans voted in favor of an effort to dismiss Donald Trump’s historic second impeachment trial on Tuesday, making clear a conviction of the former president for “incitement of insurrection” after the deadly Capitol siege on Jan. 6 is unlikely.