Limit Dashain within families to stem infection: Experts

With no end in sight of the global COVID-19 pandemic in the foreseeable future, this year’s Dashain and Tihar festivals are sure to be like never before. With Dashain barely a fortnight away, the usual festive mood excitement seen around the country, this time around every year in the past, is nowhere to be seen. Instead, confusion and uncertainty have probably taken over excitement under the new normal. The simple affair of travelling back to hometown for Dashain, Tihar and Chhath to celebrate...

NCP meet called for today

The Secretariat meeting of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) scheduled for Saturday afternoon has been postponed until Sunday. The meeting is expected to dwell on Cabinet reshuffle and other issues related to party’s organizational unity. The decision to put off the meeting for Sunday afternoon was jointly taken by two party Chairmen Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’. Friday’s meeting held between the two chairmen had decided to call the party Secretariat...

Trump said to be improving but next 48 hours ‘critical’

President Donald Trump went through a “very concerning” period Friday and faces a “critical” next two days in his fight against COVID-19 at a military hospital, his chief of staff said Saturday — in contrast to a rosier assessment moments earlier by Trump doctors, who took pains not to reveal the president had received supplemental oxygen at the White House before his hospital admission.

PM Oli's PCR report negative for COVID-19, security precaution beefed up

Prime Minister Oli's swab was collected on Wednesday and the report was received on Thursday, according to Ram Sharan Bajgain, media expert to PM Oli.

PM's advisor trio Rimal, Bhattarai, Thapa and personal secretary Bhandari test positive for COVID-19

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli's chief advisor Bishnu Rimal, press advisor Surya Thapa. foreign affairs advisor Rajan Bhattarai and personal secretary Indra Bhandari have tested positive for COVID-19.

Nepal's COVID-19 death toll reaches 528 with eight fatalities

The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Saturday confirmed eight COVID-19 related deaths. Eight persons, two females and six males, succumbed to the novel coronavirus infection, revealed the daily report released by the MoHP today.

1,177 new cases of COVID-19 recorded in Kathmandu Valley

The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Saturday confirmed 1,177 new cases of COVID-19 in the Kathmandu Valley. In 12,978 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 1,177 persons, 487 females and 690 males, were found with the novel coronavirus infection in the Valley itself, revealed the daily report released by the MoHP today.

COVID-19 update: 2,120 new cases, 2,044 recoveries, tally hits 84,570

In 12,978 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 2,120 persons were found with the novel coronavirus infection, informed Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson at the MoHP in the daily press briefing today.

Trump, stricken by COVID-19, flown to military hospital

Stricken by COVID-19, a feverish and fatigued President Donald Trump was flown to a military hospital Friday night after being injected with an experimental drug combination in treatment at the White House.

Patriarchal Mind-set Impedes Women Empowerment

The United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) pledges for adoption of policies to eliminate discrimination against women. Nepal is a party to this agreement. Nepal as a signing member has pledged to eliminate the practices that are based on the idea of the inferiority or the superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women. Yet the traces of misogyny normalised by the patriarchal mind-set, which tends to see women...