Yogesh Bhattarai, who once declared Nepal a coronavirus-free country to attract tourists, has become the first minister in the Oli Cabinet to contract COVID-19

With Dasain only two weeks way, people in Kathmandu are fully in festive mode, and many are forgoing safety precautions even as Nepal recorded the highest ever daily total for COVID-19 cases

Nepal’s coronavirus cases crossed the 100,000 mark on Friday, with 600 total deaths, a situation public health experts had long warned about, while the government appears clueless about its next step to contain the spread

The Nepal government has decided to waive off quarantine and COVID-19 insurance rules for tourists starting from October 17 onwards, sources said on Friday

Nepal and Bangladesh have decided to sign a bilateral preferential trade arrangement by the end of 2020

In a virtual meeting organised by the Tourism Recovery Task Force (TRTF), Nepal's Director-General of the Department of Tourism Rudra Singh Tamang said that the department is preparing to amend existing protocols to which the various stakeholders from the industry raised objections

Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has underlined the need to overcome the existential threat posed by rising temperature, rising sea levels and melting of glaciers — all caused by climate change — which have impacted the lives and livelihoods from the high Himalayas to lowlands

Nepal on Thursday saw a record daily spike in coronavirus cases, just as the total number of infections soared to 98,617. Health facilities have run out of intensive care beds and ventilators

Nepal’s economy is projected to grow by just 0.6 percent in the current fiscal year 2020-2021, inching up from an estimated 0.2 percent in 2019-20 as lockdowns promoted by COVID-19 disrupted economic activity, especially tourism, according to the World Bank’s latest South Asia Economic Focus

The Asian Development Bank is poised to issue $150 million to the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal to upgrade the airports in Kathmandu and Bhairahawa

Nepals COVID-19 tally reached 94,253 with 3,439 new infections, the highest single-day spike reported on Wednesday

The Nepalese government has allowed educational institutions to conduct exams for students of all levels by ensuring social distancing and other safety measures, enforced by federal, provincial and local levels, in examination centres

A team of high-profile climbers led by Bahrain Prince Mohamed Hamad Mohamed Al Khalifa today arrived at the base camp of Mt Manaslu to attempt to climb the 8163-metre peak in the autumn season

The provincial assembly of Province 5 gave its unanimous approval to a proposal naming the province officially as Lumbini whose headquarter will be in Deng

Nepali Congress (NC), the country's main opposition party, on Tuesday slammed the incumbent government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic, which has so far infected 89,263 people and killed 554 others