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Arrange 10,000 ventilators, Nepal House panel tells government

Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee of Nepal's House of Representatives today directed the government to make arrangements for 10,000 ventilators, as the number of COVID-19 cases was likely to climb up to 80,000 by Dashain

Nepal's ruling party moves forward only to take a step back again

Despite the two co-chairs making promising noises of late, the months-long wrangling within the Nepal Communist Party shows no signs of abating as Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, as if to test waters, decided to make a number of minor political appointments

Nepal’s coronavirus count crosses 30k; 838 new cases recorded on Friday

Nepal's Ministry of Health and Population has confirmed 838 new cases of the coronavirus infection on Friday, taking the nationwide COVID-19 count to 30,483

Former PM Dahal tells PM Oli to rescind political appointments

Co-chair of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Pushpa Kamal Dahal today told Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli to withdraw recent political appointments as that could adversely affect the environment within the party at a time when a task force had already been formed to solve the intra-party feud

India returnees being sent home directly

Though people returning home from abroad and even outside the district are normally quarantined before being sent home due to COVID-19-related risk, this is not being practised in Bajura’s Budhiganga Municipality

Confusion and chaos as Valley residents wake up to new COVID-19 restrictions

Kumar Timilsena had opened his store at Kupondole for just half an hour on Thursday morning when policemen came on motorcycles, sirens blaring, and told him to close his shop

At midpoint, Nepal PM struggles to deliver

Halfway into his five-year mandate, the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) government led by Prime Minister K P Oli has seen many of the ambitious pledges and promises that brought it to power ring hollow

Nepal's schools can’t pay teacher salaries as they are not allowed to collect fees

On March 19, when the Nepal government announced the closure of schools to curb the spread of Covid-19, Akash (name changed), a mathematics teacher at a private school in Kathmandu, wasn’t very worried

Government collects Rs 61bn revenue in first month of current fiscal

The government has collected a total of Rs 61.37 billion in the first month of the current fiscal year

Singer of controversial music video, eight others arrested in Nepal

Police have arrested nine persons, including the singer of the controversial music video titled ‘Deshdrohi’ on the charge of spreading communal hatred and burning the national flag

Nepal reports 681 additional COVID-19 cases; nationwide tally stands at 28,938

Nepal's Ministry of Health and Population has confirmed 681 new cases of coronavirus infection on Wednesday, taking the nationwide COVID-19 count to 28,938

Mysterious death of journalist raises questions in Nepal

Balaram Baniya, assistant editor at Nepali newspaper Kantipur Daily, is credited with breaking the news in June that China has encroached the border village of Rui, which falls under the Gorkha district in Nepal

One-week curfew clamped in Kathmandu Valley

District administration offices of Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur have decided to impose one-week curfew across the valley, the most populated urban centre in the country, beginning tomorrow midnight to August 26 to break the chain of COV- ID transmission

Conflict in Nepal's ruling party hits governance hard

When the novel coronavirus, first detected in Wuhan last year, started to spread across the globe, governments sprung into action

Madhav Prasad Ghimire, Nepal's national poet, dies at 101

Madhav Prasad Ghimire, who has died aged 101, was one of the last of the Nepali literary figures from among the older generation. Known as Rastra Kavi, or national poet, Ghimire was also a playwright and essayist