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.
As a precautionary measure against the spread of novel coronavirus in the country, the Department of Immigration (DoI) has issued a directive to its office at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu to regularise arrival and departure facilities with effect from September 1
The ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) postponed its Secretariat meeting scheduled for tomorrow till September 3, as two of the Secretariat members had to go into self-quarantine
Nepal Police arrested several e-commerce entrepreneurs, including more than 20 delivery persons, yesterday, stating that home delivery services were against prohibitory orders issued by the District Administration Office, Kathmandu, on August 26
On August 16, police arrested Bijay Mahara, 19, at his home in Garuda Municipality-8, Rautahat, along with 10 others over their alleged involvement in a murder that took place a day earlier.
A massive thunderbolt in Nepal’s remote Jumla district on Sunday killed at least 500 sheep grazing in pastures high in the mountains, according to belated reports from the remote mountain region of northwestern Nepal
Nepal reported 1,100 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours, a record-high number of single-day infections in the Himalayan country
Nepal’s billionaire industrialist and a Member of Parliament Binod Chaudhary has tested positive for coronavirus infection
The dust has finally settled in the ruling party–or at least it appears so
The Nepal government has decided to set up 6,000 beds in Kathmandu valley to isolate asymptomatic COVID-19 patients, but health experts say that the number is inadequate, as the number of COVID-19 cases was rising sharply in the valley
The country’s external relations witnessed robust growth in multiple sectors with important initiatives taken and notable achievements made in the past one year, states the annual report released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs this week
Excluding this year, the number of deaths across the country from lightning every year generally exceeds that from landslides
Opposition parties Nepali Congress and Janata Samajwadi Party-Nepal have flayed the government for failing to check the rise in the number of cases of the coronavirus pandemic
Amid criticism for its failure to monitor the frequent meetings between the political leadership and foreign diplomats, Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs is once again working to revise and reactivate its diplomatic code of conduct
As the number of symptomatic coronavirus cases continues to grow, the government wants private hospitals to allocate upto 1,000 beds for COVID-19 patients
The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation on Tuesday released a schedule for international flights
