1,079 COVID-19 recoveries, 742 new cases, seven fatalities in last 24 hours

With 742 new cases of novel coronavirus confirmed on Sunday, the national COVID-19 tally has surged to 254,514.

PM Oli's step will not be accepted at any cost: Leader Nepal

"A total of 114 members of the Federal Parliament, 90 of HoR and 24 of the National Assembly, have already signed against the decision. Leader Raghubir Mahaseth, who is considered to be closed to Prime Minister Oli, has also signed," added Nepal.

Removing me from party is just a political stunt: PM Oli

Surya Thapa, press advisor to the PM, said that scrums and gatherings hold against the party's constitution and rules could not remove the PM. "In the meeting, PM Oli said that these gatherings were just an ugly joke to make the world laugh," added Thapa.

Sumi and Biju winners of Dancing with Stars Nepal

Actress Sumi Moktan and choreographer Viju Parki have become the first winners of the celebrity dancing reality show ‘Dancing with the Stars Nepal’ Season One. This show is the Nepali version of the world famous dancing reality show ‘Dancing with the Stars’, which is based on the format of the British TV series ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ distributed by BBC Studios. In the final competition held on Saturday, the duo won the title by getting the highest number of votes from the audience. Along...

Fresh Polls End Chaos

On Sunday, Nepal’s politics took a sudden turn. The country has plunged into mid-term election. President Bidya Devi Bhandari has dissolved the House of Representatives (HoR) of the Federal Parliament as per the recommendation of the government. As per the press statement issued by the Office of the President, the first phase of the mid-term election will be held on Friday, April 30, 2021, and the second phase election will be held on Monday, May 10, 2021, to receive a fresh mandate from peopl

Come To Terms With China

Coined in the 1950s and buried in the 1990s, Cold War is close to getting minted again. As long as the United States, with the full backing of the European Union, ruled the roost in setting the global agenda and exercising domineering influence for three decades, the Cold War was supposed to have ended. With the economic and technological rise and rise of China along with Russia asserting its presence in the international arena since the turn of the century, the term gets invoked with frequency these...

The Year When Everything Changed

Warren Harding built a campaign for the presidential election in 1920 around his new word “normalcy”. It was an appeal to Americans’ supposed urge to forget the horrors of the First World War and the Spanish flu and turn back to the certainties of the Golden Age. And yet, instead of embracing Harding’s normalcy, the Roaring Twentie

Justice To Farmers

For more than a week now, sugarcane farmers from the southern district of Sarlahi have continued their peaceful demonstration in the heart of Kathmandu so as to press the government about the issue and help them recover unpaid dues for their sugarcane sold to the sugar mills. More than 300 farmers voluntarily poured into the valley, and injustice that they are bearing seems to be more apparent to the entire nation as they continue staging sit-in protests. They have presented their ultimatum that...

Govt, sugarcane farmers meeting inconclusive

Talks between the government and the agitating sugarcane farmers could not reach any agreement on Sunday. The meeting held at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies ended inconclusively, said Rakesh Mishra, coordinator of the sugarcane farmer’ struggle committee. Sugarcane farmers from the Terai have been protesting in Kathmandu for the past eight days demanding payment of old dues from the sugar mills. Secretaries of the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies Baikuntha Aryal and...

90% work on Humla section of Karnali Corridor completed

Construction of the Humla section of the Karnali Corridor, a national pride project entrusted to the Nepal Army, is set to be completed by April, 2021. The Army continued working on the road throughout the COVID-induced lockdown and has now informed that 90 per cent of the work has been finished. The army is confident that the work will be completed within the stipulated time because many works, including building the gabions and blasting the earth, are progressing without delay. There are 90 workers...