Landslide damages Besisahar-Chame road

The Besisahar-Chame road, the only land route to link the district of Manang, has been damaged by floods and landslides at several places. Chief District Officer (CDO) of Manang Rabindra Prasad Acharya said the floods and landslides triggered by torrential post-monsoon rain had severely damaged the road at 12 different places within Manang.

Death toll from disasters reaches 94: Home Ministry

The death toll from floods and landslides triggered by the post-monsoon rains has reached 94. According to the latest update by the Home Ministry Thursday evening, Province 1 saw the highest deaths at 57 followed by Sudurpaschim with 29 deaths. Likewise, Karnali saw seven deaths and Bagmati one.

43.1 % population vaccinated against COVID-19

The government has administered more than 43 per cent of the target population against COVID-19 with a single shot. According to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), 8, 581,195 people (43.1 per cent population) were vaccinated with single shot and 6,500,463 (32.6 percent) with full dose across the nation as of today.

Biratnagar Airport still out of service due to inundation

Air service has not been resumed at the Biratnagar Airport after it got inundated due to incessant rains in the past couple of days. According to the Civil Aviation Office of the airport, it will take a few more days for the air service to resume from here as most of the key areas remain submerged in floodwater. Chief of Biratnagar Airport, Utsav Raj Kharel, informed that air service would be possible from next Saturday as the terminal building, the parking area and its surroundings were still submerged...

Relief To Disaster Victims

Nepal is now going through a sad and difficult moment as the extreme and intense off-season rains have brought unthinkable devastations once again to many parts of the country. The calamities have taken scores of human lives and caused huge damage to infrastructures such as roads, bridges, electricity and communication systems, private homes and ready-to-harvest paddy crops. The death toll from the latest flash floods, landsli

Media Matters In Early Warning

One day before the torrential rain lashed the far-west and eastern part of Nepal, the Agriculture Information and Training Centre at the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development had issued an early warning that there would be a chance of light to heavy rain in most parts of the country almost every day from next week. It asked the peasants to harvest and store the ripe paddy crops by taking the weather condition int

Indecisiveness On MCC Nepal Compact

In today’s political debate, no issue related to Nepal’s foreign aid has become as controversial among country’s leaders as the Millennium Challenge Corporation grants. The decision to urge the donor government to provide the amount was taken by our leadership se

Climate Vulnerabilities

It is painful to see that natural disasters like abnormal rains and uncontrolled floods and landslides have become a common occurrence in most parts of Nepal. Such disasters cause huge damage to physical infrastructure and other properties annually. Mostly, the people living in the areas that are vulnerable to the rain-induced calamities are in a difficult position. Our country’s rich natural resources are always much-talk

Pilgrims rely on porters to visit Pathibhara

The great poet Laxmi Prasad Devkota wrote in his poem ‘Yatri’ that men need not visit any temple as the human body itself is the greatest temple where the most divine gods reside. He chided people for troubling the living temples that were their bodies to go to brick and mortar structures that they believed were hallowed. So, had Devkota been alive today, he perhaps would not have approved of the porter facility which has been started at Pathibhara, Taplejung which allows people to literally...

FDA OKs mixing COVID vaccines; backs Moderna, J&J boosters

U.S. regulators on Wednesday signed off on extending COVID-19 boosters to Americans who got the Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccine and said anyone eligible for an extra dose can get a brand different from the one they received initially.