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Kathmandu bars people from serving meals to needy

Kathmandu Metropolitan City has banned all-volunteer groups, clubs and helping hands from randomly distributing food to the needy at Khulamanch

Nepal asks WHO help to hire 200 medical workers to shore up COVID-19-hit health facilities

Nepal's Ministry of Health and Population has sought the World Health Organization’s help to hire 200 health workers including doctors to continue health care services during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

Nepal preparing to open tourism sector

The Nepalese government is preparing to resume all businesses related to tourism industry by adopting health protocols

Domestic tourism provides some succour for Nepal's ailing tourist industry

Hari Kharel, a businessman from Jhapa, decided to go on a tour immediately after the Dashain festival—eight months after the Covid-19 pandemic forced the world to remain indoors

Former PM Dahal meets Prime Minister KP Oli

Co-chair of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Pushpa Kamal Dahal, who had been declining the other party Co-chair and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli’s invite for talks of late, went to the PM’s official residence today and proposed to convene the party Secretariat meeting to discuss political issues

Pandemic disproportionately affecting women, girls in Nepal

Rapid gender assessment undertaken by Nepal's Ministry of Women, Children and Senior Citizens, in collaboration with UN Women, Care Nepal and Save the Children has revealed that groups most affected by COVID-19, include daily wagers, farmers, landless women, women working in adult entertainment sector, women from Dalit and Madhesi communities, gender and sexual minorities, differently-abled women, adolescent girls, displaced women, and those living with HIV AIDS

Six Nepalis rescued from forced labour in Malaysia

Without work and money for months, six Nepali migrants have been rescued from what looked like forced labour conditions in Malaysia

Nepal’s COVID-19 tally reaches 170,743 with 2,508 new cases

Nepal on Saturday reported 2,508 new cases of coronavirus infection from across the country. With this, the nationwide infection count has advanced to 170,743

Crystal-clear air makes peaks of eastern Himalayas visible from Nepal Tarai

Because of poor visibility due to pollution or weather, rarely these days does one get to see Nepal’s topographical diversity of the Tarai, Chure, Mid-mountains and the Himalaya all at once from one place

Nepal PM Oli extends olive branch to former PM Dahal but the latter remains unconvinced

On Friday Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali went to meet his party chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal in the latter’s residence

Remittance to Nepal may drop to $7.4 billion in 2020, World Bank says

Nepali migrant workers are expected to send home only $7.4 billion in 2020, down 12 percent from pre-coronavirus levels in 2019, the World Bank said in its latest estimates

ADB supports the production of clean bricks in Nepal

The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) venture capital arm ADB Ventures has provided the Good Bricks System, a non-fired brick making solution in Nepal, a $125,000 grant to reduce the industry’s harmful impact on the environment and health

Police launches campaign for child marriage minimisation in Lumbini province of Nepal

The Lumbini Province Police Office, Dang has initiated a campaign for prevention and minimisation of child marriage in the province

World Bank approves $80 million project to boost Nepal’s agriculture

The World Bank has approved a project worth US dollars 80 million (equivalent to Rs 9.44 billion) today to bolster Nepal’s agriculture sector by strengthening rural market linkages and promoting entrepreneurship while creating jobs to support post-COVID-19 recovery

COVID-19 cases expected to surge in Nepal's villages

Of the 8,248 swab samples tested in the last 24 hours only 1,954 people tested coronavirus positive