NTB, NAC ink tourism promotion deal

An agreement was signed between Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) and Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) on Sunday to cooperate in various aspects of tourism promotion. This agreement has ensured cooperation in various fields such as joint promotional work, introductory visits, branding, international level tourism-related programmes to be organised in Nepal, a press statement issued by the NTB stated. The agreement has been signed as per the concept of public-private partnership, with the objective of promoting...

No scarcity of essential items: Supply Ministry

The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies said that there would be no scarcity of essential products during the festival period citing that the stock of essential goods was enough for the festival season. According to Urmila K.C, assistant spokesperson at the Ministry, the present stock of foods including rice, sugar, beans and oil, among other is sufficient until the festival while the concerned public enterprises are also focusing to increase the further stock of foods. She said that the...

Home Ministry refutes rumour of emergency

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) Monday clarified that the government was not imposing a state of emergency and curfew across the country as reported in social media. News spread through different social media on Monday was wrong and misleading, the ministry said. Joint Secretary and spokesperson at the Ministry Chakra Bahadur Budha said the government has no plan to impose emergency and curfew for the control and prevention of COVID-19 infection or for any other reason. Spokesperson Budha...

Fire at a petrol pump in Bhairahawa

Everest Oil Suppliers, a gasoline station, at Siddhartha Municipality-8 in Rupandehi district has caught fire.

China confident of sustaining recovery momentum as economy firms up

Gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 4.9 percent year on year in Q3, faster than the 3.2-percent growth seen in Q2, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Monday.

Members of federal parliament representing ruling NCP to deposit Dashain allowance in Corona Fund

A meeting of the whips of the NCP parliamentary party in presence of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who is also the leader of the NCP parliamentary party, made the decision to this effect on Monday.

2,388 new cases of COVID-19 recorded in Kathmandu Valley

In 15,714 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done across the nation in the last 24 hours, as many as 2,388 persons were found with the novel coronavirus infection in the Valley itself, said Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson of the ministry in the daily press briefing today.

COVID-19 update: 3,790 new cases, 2,335 recoveries, 18 deaths in last 24 hours

In 15,714 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 3,790 persons were found to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2.

PSC postpones all written examinations until further notice

Owing to the increasing threat of COVID-19, the Public Service Commission (PSC) has decided to postpone all the written examinations which were scheduled to begin from November 1.

New Bus Park at Gongabu awaits passengers (Photo Feature)

Owing to the increasing threat of the spread of COVID-19, the New Bus Park at Gongabu has worn a deserted look despite the beginning of the Dashain festival.