State Councilor and Defense Minister of China Wei Fenghe arrives in Kathmandu

State Councilor and Defense Minister of China Wei Fenghe arrived Kathmandu following the one-day visit to Nepal .

With no action by Washington, states race to offer virus aid

Faulting inaction in Washington, governors and state lawmakers are racing to get pandemic relief to small-business owners, the unemployed, renters and others whose livelihoods have been upended by the widening coronavirus outbreak.

Virtual Tihar sessions with Mukti and Revival

Mukti and Revival is one such band that needs no introduction to any person with even a remote inclination towards Nepali music. The group has been entertaining the nation since 1992 when their front person Mukti Shakya returned to Nepal from Spain with his wife and kids. Immediately he formed the group und

Diplomatic Ice-breaking

Indian foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla returned home Friday after completing his two-day visit to Nepal. Shringla’s visit remained highly fruitful in enhancing meaningful communication between the two nations at the diplomatic and political level. Just a few months back, a big uncertainty hung over the bilateral ties between the two nations following the release of new political maps by both sides. Indian foreign secretary held talks with his Nepali counterpart as well as the President,...

Can Shringla Walk The Talk?

Indian foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla’s visit to Nepal has finally put Nepal-India ties into formal diplomatic frame. Shringla’s two-day roller-coaster trip looked like a charm offensive to coax an incensed neighbour. He invoked language, culture and civilisational ethos to bring strained Nepal-India relations back on track. He first caught the fancy of many with his fluency in Nepali language. Upon his arrival at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, he spoke with journalists...

Carbon Monoxide: An Invisible Killer

Every winter, Nepal records about a hundred deaths from accidental carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. Most of those cases are preventable. Everyone is at risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. However, people who are at a higher risk include infants, the elderly, and those with chronic heart disease, anemia, or breathing problems. Those deaths are unintentional as CO poisoning not linked to fires. Few thousands visit the emergency rooms, and about 1,000 are hospitalised. Once carbon monoxide is breathed...

Clash Of Cultures

Considered as a land of milk and honey, the United States of America (USA) attracts the people from around the world. They go to the US in the search of better education and job. Many of them end up settling there and never return to their native land. This is the reason why the US has turned into multi-religious, multi-ethnic and multi-cultural society. Because of this multiculturalism, when the people of one belief celebrate their festival of sacrifice, others observe a ritual of remembering their...

Police seize 19 loaded guns

Police have seized 19 loaded guns from Baglung, Nuwakot and Doti districts on Thursday. Police said that eight loaded guns were recovered from a forest of Tarakhola Rural Municipality-5 in Balgung district and nine other from the forest of Harpukhola Tole of the same district, according to a press statement issued by Nepal Police Headquarters on Friday.

Karki earns good by running salon in Beni

Kumar Karki serves as a fitting example that it is equally difficult to do anything in one's own place. Kumar, who is running a salon in Beni, was initially threatened in Beni when he prepared to start the business. He had come to Beni from Jaljala Rural Municipality of Parbat district to run the salon. “While the Indian salon operators threatened me fearing that their business will decline, I also faced heartbreaking behaviour from the Nepali brothers,” Karki recalled. Kumar said that his...

Construction of extra 70-bed facility at Bheri Hospital at final stage

With the intent of catering to an increasing number of COVID-19 patients, construction of additional 70-bed health facility at Bheri Hospital has reached the final stage. As critical cases of the COVID-19 continue pouring in from Lumbini, Karnali and the Sudur Paschim Provinces, the COVID-19 designated Bheri Hospital had decided to up its capacity. The hospital had already been operating with 70 beds, but with more patients coming in from other provinces it had to add extra 70 beds, said the Chief...