Sunrise Bank has donated 65 personal protection equipment (PPE) to the Nepal Police. The bank Chief Executive Officer Janak Sharma Poudel handed the equipments to Inspector General of Nepal Police Thakur Prasad Gyawali amid an event here Friday. On the occasion, IGP Gyawali thanked the bank for the assistance. Bank

Three persons have been kept in isolation at Bahrabise-based Primary Health Centre. The locals of Phulpingkatti from Bhotekoshi rural municipality-4 are kept in the isolation with the suspect of COVID-19. Of them, two had returned home from Iran last month. An old man living with them in Kathmandu has also

The Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) is preparing to distribute half-filled cylinder gas to the consumers after the shortage of cooking gas in the market. The NOC is distributing cooking gas weighing 7.1 kg to the consumers at Rs 687.50 in different places including Kathmandu Valley. However, the price of the

The Nepal Medical Association (NMA) has called upon the government to boost up the morale of doctors and health workers involved in the treatment of COVID-19 patients. In a statement today, NMA’s secretary general Badri Rijal has demanded that the health workers and doctors involved in the treatment process of

Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba has again drawn the government’s attention towards economic impact on multiple classes and sectors caused by the lockdown against the coronavirus, urging the government to take immediate steps towards that end. ”Daily wage earners have been hardest hit by the lockdown,” he said urging

The State 1 government has said it is much concerned about the possible risk of the spread of coronavirus which now poses a global health threat with already taking a global pandemic. The Social Development Ministry said that it had been cooperating and facilitating in the medical check-up of suspected

The Nepal Trade Union, Congress has demanded the government come up with an immediate relief package for those workers in the informal economy during the COVID-19 crisis. A delegation from the Union on Thursday met with Bishnu Rimal, the chief political advisor to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and on

Chairperson of National Innovation Centre Mahabir Pun is to freely provide personal protective equipment (PPE) required for health workers during treatment of coronavirus patients. Pun, who started manufacturing PPE since last Thursday, said he would hand over the safety equipments the government and hospitals free of cost. He further said

All three dailies and four weeklies being published from Dailekh district have stopped their publications for indefinite period after the lockdown for the fear of COVID-19. Publisher of Dhamaka Daily Bishnu Sharma said publication of newspapers was closed as the workers of two printing presses feared for the newspapers distribution.

-Bimal Bahadur Bista Sudurpaschim state chief minister Trilochan Bhatta has assured that there would be no shortage of food grains to citizens quarantined in nine districts of the state. In a telephonic conversation with Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS), Chief Minister Bhatta said necessary arrangement has been made in such a