More IPL bettors in police net

With the start of the Indian Premier League (IPL), a professional Twenty20 cricket league organised by India, in the United Arab Emirates since mid-September, illegal betting business has soared in Nepal. Law enforcement agencies have been arresting many individuals over the years during the time of the IPL for illegal betting. The Metropolitan Police Beat, Kalimati recently arrested seven individuals involved in running an illegal sports betting racket from Kathmandu with technical support from...

No-confidence motion in Karnali falls in minority

The proposal of no-confidence motion against Mahendra Bahadur Shahi, Chief Minister of the Karnali State and leader of the parliamentary party of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), has fallen into minority. Of the 18 State Assembly members who had signed the proposal, seven were absent in the meeting called by then chief whip Gulab Jung Shah, which reduced the proposal to minority. CM Shahi had replaced Shah with Sita Nepali in the position of Chief Whip on Monday.

Home Minister directs for security plans to address current needs

Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa Badal Tuesday warned the economic and social impact of coronavirus could lead to an escalation in crime in the society. Addressing a virtual State-level security conference of State 1 from the Ministry, Home Minister Thapa said that new forms of crime were on the rise due to the coronavirus and directed the subordinate bodies to formulate security plans and strategies to minimise the incidents.

PM stresses global cooperation to combat pandemics, disasters

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has stressed on cooperation among the countries and international organisations, and common work approach to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. “The threat posed by the pandemic has forced us to think and act together,” he said while addressing a webinar organised by Disaster Risk Reduction National Working Forum on the occasion of International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction on Tuesday. He said that the present health crisis had nudged one and all to move to a new...

Covid reinfection: Man gets Covid twice and second hit 'more severe'

The 25-year-old needed hospital treatment after his lungs could not get enough oxygen into his body. Reinfections remain rare and he has now recovered.

Kathmandu Valley logs 2,129 new cases of COVID-19

The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Tuesday confirmed 2,129 new cases of COVID-19 in the Kathmandu Valley. In 15,577 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 2,129 persons were found with the novel coronavirus infection in the Valley itself, revealed the daily report released by the MoHP today.

COVID-19 update: 3,556 new cases, 1,503 recoveries, tally spikes to 115,358

"In 15,577 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 3,556 persons were found to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2," informed Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson of the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in the regular press briefing today.

Patient pressure high in Kathmandu, but isolation beds, ICU, ventilators vacant in Bhaktapur

Number of COVID-19 patients in the Kathmandu Valley has been increasing lately.

Corona kills three of a family, one under treatment in ICU

Three members of the same family at Bhimad Municipality has succumbed to COVID-19 here in Tanahu district.

Young people create art, express issues of lives

On the occasion of the International Day of the Girl Child (IDGC), Plan International Nepal has organised “Art is Power”, an event that links word art of young girls and boys to visual art created by artists in response to the word art. A total of 250 young people, including 214 girls from seven districts -- Sunsari, Sindhuli, Makwanpur, Banke, Bardiya, Jumla and Kalikot -- participated in the Virtual Art Workshop. Young people aged under 18 years were oriented to create art through different...