23 test positive for COVID-19 in Karnali on Wednesday, Provincial tally climbs to 2,034

Chetan Nidhi Wagle, chief of Surkhet District Health Office, viewed that risk of infection of COVID-19 was high in Surkhet and there was also risk of community transmission as five of the 19 newly infected people have no travel history and they were not detected in the course of contact tracing nor they were staying in the quarantine.

38-year-old female COVID-19 patient dies in Patan Hospital

A 38-year-old female of Janakpurdham succumbed to COVID-19 while receiving treatment at Patan Hospital, Lalitpur.

Two die at corona hospital in Butwal, one was COVID-19 infected   

Two men died at a corona special hospital in Butwal on Tuesday night. One of them was tested positive for coronavirus and another showed only symptoms, said Dr Rajendra Khanal, medical superintendent of Lumbini Provincial Hospital.    

International Youth Day: Challenges in implementation of youth policy 

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Village loses physical connectivity after river sweeps suspension bridge  

Physical connectivity has snapped at Gaumul rural municipality-2, Ajayatodki village after the flood-fed Budhiganga River swept away a suspension bridge. A team of police personnel and rescuers from the rural municipality has returned empty handed.    

Secretary-level meeting to be held between Nepal and India

Preparations are underway to hold a diplomatic meeting between Nepal and India about the ongoing border issue at Kalapani, Limpiyadhura and Lipu Lekh area.

Road mishap in Doti: three dead, 32 injured   

At least three persons died and other 32 sustained injuries in a bus accident at Purbichauki rural municipality-1, Fulaut in Doti district.     According to Police Inspector of the District Police Office Doti Karna Bahadur Bohora, the Achham bound bus (Na 6 Kha 2529) from Kailali met with the accident.

NRA consulting options to refill Rani Pokhari

Following widespread criticism over its plan to refill water at Rani Pokhari from deep boring, the National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) has finally initiated consultation with water and heritage experts. After almost a month since the completion of the reconstruction of the historic pond devastated by the 2015 earthquake, the NRA has been holding consultation seeking experts’ view regarding the ways to refill the pond. Heritage conservationists have criticised the option of deep boring to...

Student activists vandalise offices of TU VC, Rector

Nepal Students' Union (NSU), the student wing of Nepali Congress, vandalised the offices of the Vice-Chancellor (VC), registrar and rector of the Tribhuvan University (TU) on Tuesday. The students group has vandalised three offices and a vehicle of the VC's office blaming that the TU officials did not sit for dialogue with them. Although police arrested NSU carders after the vandalism, the central leaders of NSU denied their involvement in the incident.

MoHP confirms four COVID-19 related deaths

Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson of the ministry, during the daily press briefing today said that four persons of Dhanusa, Kavrepalanchowk and Sindhupalchowk had succumbed to COVID-19.

Kathmandu Valley records highest single day tally with whopping 134 new cases of COVID-19

In 10,462 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 134 persons were found with the virus infection in the valley itself, informed Dr. Jageshwor Gautam, spokesperson of the ministry in the daily press briefing today.

Mudbari confesses murdering Bohara for blackmailing her: Police

Accused Kalpana confessed that she had fed sleeping tablets to deceased Krishna Bahadur Bohara by mixing it in curd and after Bohara fainted, she killed him by hitting him in his scrotum with the help of a hammer, revealed the Police by organising a press conference today.

State Assembly committee inspects damaged Besisahar-Chame road

The Finance and Development Committee under the Gandaki State Assembly has inspected the Besisahar-Chame road section damaged by the incessant rains. The Committee also comprising its chair Deepak Koirala highlighted the need of working through a fast track to restore the route, promising to suggest the government same.    

Four killed, four others injured as landslides bury a house in Doti

Karna Bohara, Police Inspector at Doti District Police Office, said that a local Loge Luhar's wife, son and two daughters were killed when Luhar's house collapsed after being hit by the landslides from the backside of the house.

COVID-19: KU closed for 15 days   

The Dhulikhel-based Kathmandu University (KU) in Kavrepalanchowk district has been closed for next 15 days beginning from today, owing to the growing risk of coronavirus infection.     

Festivals help cement social ties: Chief Minister Gurung 

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70 new cases of COVID-19 recorded in Parsa today

  Jaymod Thakur, health inspector at Parsa District Health Office, informed The Rising Nepal that 55 persons were confirmed to have been infected with the virus in the report received on Monday evening while positive report of the 15 persons was received this morning.

CM Poudel pledges to provide sufficient budget in the fight against COVID-19   

Bagmati State chief minister Dormani Poudel said he would not allow insufficiency of budget in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.     Issuing directive to the authorities concerned in the meeting of COVID Crisis Management Committee in Hetauda on Monday, he said now was the time to be more sensitive to the control and prevention of coronavirus as the frontline security personnel and health workers have also come under the grip of its infection lately.    

  Book entitled ‘Civil Criminal Code: A Note’ launched  

A book entitled ‘Civil Criminal Code: A Note’ encompassing simplified presentation and analysis of country’s criminal code was launched amidst a programme at the apex court.     Supreme Court Chief Registrar Nripadhoj Niraula made public the book authored by the Assistant Registrar of the Supreme Court Bishnu Prasad Pandey on Monday.    

First Lady Shakya takes guardianship of three girls

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that service of children is also a service to the society and the nation. Stating that the Constitution of Nepal was in favour of the children, he added, “Children are not only the helmsmen of the future but are also entitled to the present.”