Nepal has decided to extend the ongoing lockdown, in its current form, till July 22
Power-surplus Nepal hopes to earn $100 million from electricity exports to India
From Thursday this week, Nepal started selling electricity, around 37 MW to Indian buyers, Nepal Electricity Corporation spokesperson Suresh Bhattarai confirmed to The Kathmandu Post. More bids are invited to sell 200 MW in India’s power exchange market on a long-term basis.
More on Nepal
‘Anti-national’ Mahakali Treaty comes back to haunt ‘nationalist’ Oli
Nepal Communist Party (NCP) leader Bamdev Gautam, who had stopped criticising the prime minister in recent weeks, appears to have found new voice in taking him to task of late
Government caught flat-footed as locusts enter Nepal
In contrast to the government’s prediction, a few groups of desert locusts have been located in five districts of Nepal so far
Citizenship bill protests in Nepal
A protest was staged at the initiative of Women’s Association aligned to Janata Samajwadi Party-Nepal in Saptari district headquarters Rajbiraj today against the constitution (amendment) bill proposing to grant naturalised citizenship to foreign women married to Nepali men only after seven years
PM Oli shows up to leave NCP meet
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, who had skipped the Standing Committee meeting of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) yesterday, showed up at the meeting venue today but only for a few minutes
Every Nepal district now affected by COVID-19: Official
The COVID-19 pandemic has now spread to all of the 77 districts in Nepal as cases in the Himalayan country has surpassed 12,000, a senior Ministry of Health and Population official said
Crores mobilised to combat COVID in Nepal
The COVID-19 Fund Committee has so far mobilised Rs 840 million from the COVID-19 Fund collected from different individuals, firms and government agencies to check the spread of the coronavirus contagion
Government has not followed most of the Supreme Court’s 23 rulings related to the pandemic
On April 16, the Supreme Court directed the government to repatriate Nepali workers stuck in foreign countries
Nepal’s coronavirus tally crosses 11,000-mark with 434 new cases
With 434 new cases of the coronavirus infection detected on Thursday, Nepal’s COVID-19 count has reached 11,162, stated the Ministry of Health and Population
COVID-19 infects Nepal health workers, security personnel
More than a dozen health workers and security personnel in Nepal have been infected with the novel coronavirus since the pandemic hit the Himalayan nation, the Ministry of Health and Population said on Thursday
As repatriation flights pick up, homecoming is laced with hardships for Nepali migrant workers
Kalim Miya had paid $3,450 for a driving job in the UAE, but was paid less than a third of the $400 a month he was promised
Worker-sending countries like Nepal brace for migrant crisis
Tens of millions of migrant workers, forced to return home in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic after turning jobless in countries of destinations, face unemployment and poverty in their home countries, the International Labour Organisation has warned
Nepal foreign minister holds telephonic conversation with US Secretary of State
Nepal’s Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali held a telephone conversation with United States Secretary of State, Michael R Pompeo, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press release
COVID-19 lockdown affects Nepali students planning to go abroad
After receiving an admission offer from McNeese State University, in the US, 19-year-old Amir Adhikari was on cloud nine
US biotech startup’s plan to sequence Sherpa DNA raises ethical issues
An American biotech company’s attempt to find a treatment for COVID-19 by studying the DNA in the blood of Nepal’s Sherpa people to see how they thrive despite low oxygen levels at high altitude has been criticised by doctors and some Sherpas themselves
