The State-2 government has established COVID-19 relief and preventive fund of Rs 250 million. The Cabinet meeting of the State today took this decision. According to spokesperson of the government Gyanendra Kumar Yadav, all the Ministers of State government will contribute their one month salary to the fund. The meeting

The Theater Mall, Kirtipur Theater Group and Theater Centre for Children are hosting ‘Quarantine Campaign Drama Festival-2076 BS’ via video to mark the celebration of World Theater Day on March 27. Issuing a press release today, Kedar Shrestha, director of Theater Mall-Kirtipur Festival, informed that they are organizing the festival

Ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) senior leader and former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has urged one and all to follow government’s directives issued to avert possible outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. He has urged all to remain aware and adopt preventive measures to keep coronavirus infection outbreak at bay. Leader

Nepali Congress President Sher Bahadur Deuba has urged the government to immediately announce relief package for low income people whose life and livelihood have been adversely affected from lockdown. Lockdown was the best alternative to remain safe from COVID-19 infection spreading across the world, the former Prime Minster said, calling

Three people from Sindhulanchowk district are kept in quarantines after authorities confirmed that they returned Nepal in the same aircraft travelled by 19-year-old lady, who was tested positive for COVID-19 upon her arrival at home from France via Qatar. The three had returned Kathmandu on March 17 from an aircraft

Nine local levels in Doti district have started collecting information about Nepalis returnees from India. Chairperson of Association of Rural Municipalities Sudurpaschim Durga Dutta Ojha, said, “We have started collecting details of people who returned home from India during last one month". People’s representatives along with health workers have been

Publication of local newspapers here has been closed following the nationwide enforcement of lockdown in keeping with the potential risks of COVID-19 pandemic. It is noted that the publication has come to a halt following shortage of skilled human resource at printing press as well as trouble in distributing newspaper

Two Nepali youths, who had returned home in the same aircraft along with the 19-year-old France returnee Nepali female student who tested positive for COVID-19 and is being treated at Teku Sub-tropical Hospital, have been kept at quarantine facility. The youths originally from Phidim Municipality and Phalgunanda Rural Municipality are

The District Administration Office, Baitadi has designated the local levels to keep the India returnee people in the quarantines. On Tuesday, 85 individuals of Baitadi district had arrived Nepal via Gauriphanta and Gaddachauki checkpoints of Sudur Paschim, and all of them were sent to the respective local levels, Chief District

-Suraj Bhandari Nepali nationals currently living in the United States (US) have immoderately come across adversaries due to widespread outbreak of COVID-19 lately. A Nepali national has recently lost his life to coronavirus infection while others tested positive are undergoing treatment. Currently around 500,000 Non Resident Nepalis are living in