The Bhojpur Municipality has provided food grain to 325 daily wage earner families. It distributed one sack rice grain, one packet cooking oil, one kilogramme salt and one kilogramme lentil to each family. The municipality has also set up a 100-bed quarantine facility in view of the coronavirus pandemic. A
Nepali Congress Mahasamiti (general committee) member Gajendra Kumar Lama died on Thursday. He was the mahasamiti member from Kathmandu election constituency number 3. Nepali Congress Bagmati State Assembly member, Tshering Dorje Lama said that he passed away at Medanta Hospital in India in course of treatment after undergoing kidney transplant.
A search has been intensified for finding out the foreign-returnee people in Parbat district while 182 such people have already been placed under home quarantine. Chief District Officer, Kalpana Ghimire Nepal, said a search is under way at all the seven local levels and 61 local wards in the district
Gandaki State government chief minister Prithvi Subba Gurung has stressed that essential services should be made available in the quarantines set up for prevention of the spread of coronavirus infection. The Chief Minister said this after carrying out monitoring inspection at the quarantine set up at the Agricultural Enterprise Support
Siddharthanagar municipality in Rupandehi district has started collecting data of the daily wagers affected by the nationwide lockdown. The municipality will manage food and other support for them, said the municipality mayor Hari Prasad Adhikari. A meeting of the municipality executive committee took a decision to this effect on Thursday.
Press Council Nepal has warned that any person or media disseminating misleading information on COVID-19 would face stern action. Stating that some online news portals, which are not registered in the Department of Information and Broadcasting, were disseminating fake information, the PCN said they would be closely monitored and action
Altogether 19 tourists were rescued from Lukla to Kathmandu today. They were stranded in various places of Sagarmatha zone in Solukhumbu district. The tourists were stranded due to the nation-wide lockdown enforced since Tuesday. According to the Assistant Chief District Officer Laxmi Kumari Shahi, among the rescued tourists, one was
Nepal’s one-day cricket match series in Namibia has been postponed. The tri-series under the ICC world cricket league II has been postponed owing to the coronavirus. The series also involving Scotland was scheduled to start on April 20. Another tri-series between Nepal, Papua New Guinea and the UAE scheduled to
The people coming to Nepal via the same flight in which the a teenager girl tested positive to coronavirus has been kept in quarantine. Five people including a youth from Bahradashi rural municipality-2 in Jhapa district had come together with the girl on March 17. They had come to Kathmandu
Considering the difficulties facing the foreign tourists during the week-long lockdown, the Restaurant and Bar Association of Nepal (REBAN) has decided to open six restaurants for them. REBAN’s President Bimsen Bhujel said that the decision was taken in view of the inconvenience caused to the foreign tourists visiting Pokhara and
