817 new cases of COVID-19 recorded in Kathmandu Valley

The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Monday confirmed 817 new cases of COVID-19 in the Kathmandu Valley. Of the 817 new cases, 649 cases including 235 females and 414 males were detected in Kathmandu, 36 cases including 16 females and 20 males were found in Bhaktapur and 132 cases including 50 females and 82 males were recorded in Lalitpur.

President authenticates three ordinances including one related to acid attack

The press statement issued by spokesperson Dahal states that the ordinances were endorsed by the President on the recommendation of the government, in line with Article 114(1) of the Constitution.

COVID-19 update: 1,351 new cases, 742 recoveries, tally hits 74,745

In 10,080 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 1,351 persons were found with the novel coronavirus infection, informed Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson of the ministry in the daily press briefing today.

52 fair price shops to be opened across the nation for Dashain

As the festivities including Dashain are approaching, the government has decided to operate fair price shops across the nation including the Kathmandu Valley. The shops will be opened in at last 52 places across the nation jointly by Food Management and Trading Company (FMTC) and Salt Trading.

Investment Rs. 5 lakh, income Rs. 80,000 a month: a hotelier turned tomato farmer's story

"In the beginning, I sold it for Rs. 30 a kg. Now, it is Rs. 70 per kg. There is no problem to sell the production as the merchants come to the farmland to purchase it," he said.

NCP Chairmen duo in a meeting to decide on Cabinet reshuffling

Prime Minister Oli's press advisor Surya Thapa said that the meeting was going on and that the Chairmen's discussion was focused on reshuffling of the Council of Ministers and concluding the remaining works related to organizational unity of the party.

NY Times: Trump paid $750 in US income taxes in 2016, 2017

President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in the White House, according to a report Sunday in The New York Times.

Tourism Recovery Plan

Even if the number of COVID-19 cases keeps increasing in the country, the federal government has taken initiative to reopen the tourism industry after months of shutdown. It is set to welcome international tourists from October 17. With a negative COVID-19 PCR test report within 72 hours before departure, the inbound travellers will not have to stay in quarantine or self-isolation upon their arrival in the country. Trekking companies and tour operators are now preparing to take tourists to different...

Lies, Damn Lies And Propaganda

Whenever confronted by a critical press, political leaders find themselves at a loss as to the ways of responding and hence a typical answer would be to blame the “negative” section of the news media. When China expelled Wall Street Journal reporters earlier this year, The New York Times complained that Beijing was heading toward “a great leap backward”. Despite the American daily’s complaint, communist China’s record so far is better than most of the United States-led NATO’s closest...

Human Rights In Time Of COVID-19

A human crisis that is fast becoming a human rights crisis,” said António Guterres, United Nations Secretary General. Guterres’s statement comes in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic sweeping the globe. No doubt, an array of measures, including lockdowns, imposed to manage the global health emergency, have had severe impact on the most vulnerable and marginalised people. They could go out just to get medical services and foodstuffs. Daily wage earners were the most-affected during the lockdown. Many...