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.
In one of the few arrangements of its kind in Nepal, a public-private partnership initiative has handed over to the local government the management of Charikot Hospital which had been run by a private non-profit organisation ever since the earthquake five years ago
Nepal’s Ministry of Health has recommended that everyone entering Nepal from land borders or Kathmandu airport have to stay in quarantine for 14 days
Thousands of migratory birds have arrived at Jagadishpur lake, a Ramsar wetland site in Kapilvastu, with the arrival of the winter season this year
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s meeting with Nepali Congress President leader Sher Bahadur Deuba yesterday has been interpreted by media outlets as the PM’s attempt to seek the main opposition party’s support to run a coalition government if the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) splits
The Nepali government has sent requests to several countries that are producing COVID-19 vaccines seeking their early availability after they are proven to be effective, officials said here on Sunday
Businesspersons involved in the import of vaccines say the government must reach deals with COVID-19 vaccine producing countries and inform what quantities of vaccines it wants to import from those companies or else, the country might not get the vaccines on time
Kathmandu Metropolitan City has issued a public notice requesting persons rendered jobless due to the COVID-19 pandemic to contact its ward offices for relief under the ‘Cash for Work’ scheme
In the ongoing game of one-upmanship in the ruling party, the ball clearly is in the court of party chair and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli
In his budget speech back in June, then Nepal finance minister Yubaraj Khatiwada had announced a Rs50 billion fund for economic rehabilitation of the pandemic-hit sectors
In the wake of the Covid pandemic which has severely tested the country's health infrastructure, Nepal's Ministry of Finance has allocated a budget to establish at least 396 hospitals with basic health services across the nation
General Secretary of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Bishnu Prasad Paudel, who is close to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, today met party Co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal and urged him to withdraw his proposal that he had presented in the Secretariat meeting last week
Authorities in Nepal are preventing police and prosecutors from pursuing conflict-era cases of human rights violations, undermining the rule of law and efforts for security sector reforms, Human Rights Watch and Advocacy Forum said in a report released today
Validation of the direct polymerase chain reaction tests performed by the National Public Health Laboratory does not give accurate results in all samples of the infected people tested in the laboratory
The mercury continues to dip throughout the country, including in Kathmandu valley
Department of Drug Administration (DDA) has banned the sale and distribution of hand sanitizer produced by six companies
