Nepali K2 summiteers boost national pride: PM Oli

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that the Nepali team of Mt. K2 expedition last week had boosted the pride of country. “You have lifted the pride of the country. You have enhanced the identity of Nepal, I would like to congratulate you,” he said while facilitating the 10-member team led by Nirmal Purja Magar on Wednesday. Purja and his friends successfully ascended the world’s second highest peak in Pakistan in winter season to set a new world record.

303 new cases of COVID-19, 285 recoveries in 24 hours

In 4,574 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 303 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2.

COVID-19 vaccines dispatched to seven provinces, immunisation campaign to begin from tomorrow

Dr. Jhalak Sharma Gautam, director of the child health and immunisation department informed that vaccination centers had been formed in 17 hospitals in the valley of which, 12 are in Kathmandu, three are in Lalitpur, and two in Bhaktapur.

Farmers in Dang reap lucrative income in green gold, Berseem grass farming

Income from Berseem grass production is five to ten times more than from the production of paddy, so the attraction of farmers towards it has increased.

Storm threatens Midwest with heavy snow, travel disruptions

A major winter storm threatened to blanket parts of the middle of the country with more than a foot of snow Monday, promising to disrupt travel and forcing the closure of some coronavirus testing sites.

VP Harris chooses Gurung’s design during inaugural

It is a matter of pride for all Nepalis that Nepali-American fashion designer Prabal Gurung has been creating his wondrous apparel for high profile Americans for years. His designs are now popular among the Hollywood and Bollywood celebrities and the world’s top politicians during the special occasions.

‘Kitab Jatra’ to begin from January 30

This year’s ‘Kitab Jatra’ of the Kitab Yatra Foundation will begin from January 30. This was announced by the foundation at a press meet held in the capital on Sunday. This year’s ‘Kitab Jatra’ will last for a week, till February 5, it said.

Low Capital Spending

It is no wonder that the development budget has always been underutilised in Nepal. This is a bitter reality that continues to haunt for years with negative implications on economic growth. Every time the concerned minister and ministry promise to increase the spending of capital budget, they appear unable to overcome various bottlenecks that come in the way of smooth implementation of capital budget. Quite the contrary, the recurrent expenditure often soars to our dismay. The gover

Flexing Of Political Muscle

As the hearing on the dissolution of the House of Representatives (HoR) is going on at a feverish pitch at the apex court, the leaders of two rival Nepal Communist Party (NCP) factions are busy flexing their political muscle in the capital streets and elsewhere by holding large protest rallies and mass meetings. At these meetings, the rival leaders have disparaged and tried to expose party opponents over the matters affecting present day politics.

Global Vaccination Campaign And Nepal

It is virtually a medical miracle that the COVID-19 vaccine has been developed within a year of the emergence of virus outbreak in late 2019. With the rollout of vaccines developed by several pharmaceutical companies in India, China, Russia, the UK and the USA, a global vaccination campaign, which is the biggest inoculation campaign of its kind in living memory, has kicked off. COVID-19 vaccines have been administered to over 63 million people in 56 nations around the world. And the numbers are increasing...