Police have taken two people under control on the charge of posting misleading information related to distinguished persons, including Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, on Facebook. Those arrested in this connection are 36-year-old Tara Nachhiring of Ainselukharka, Khotang, currently living in Budhanilkantha of Kathmandu and 46-year-old Ram Kumar Shrestha of

All Nepalis living in Oman are safe from COVID-19, the Embassy of Nepal in Muscat, Oman has said. It said so far no Nepali in the Gulf state has been infected with the deadly coronavirus. COVID-19 has been found in 457 people so far in Oman and two of them

The Construction Business Development Council (CBDC) is providing Rs 1.3 million to each State for the prevention, control and treatment of COVID-19. A meeting of the Council chaired by Minister for Physical Infrastructure and Transport, Basanta Kumar Nembang, decided Thursday to provide a total Rs 9.1 million to the seven

Minister of State for Urban Development, Rambir Manandhar has said the Ministry has started monitoring and conducting the required coordination of all quarantine facilities set up throughout the country. A meeting of the Council of Ministers on March 29 approved the quarantine operation and management standard. It had also assigned

The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has so far collected the details of 134 foreign-returnees in the last one month in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic. Among the 134 foreign returnees, 60 have completed 15 days while the rest are in home quarantine, KMC stated. KMC administration department chief Namaraj Dhakal

The Parbat district administration office has banned the fair and holy dip in Kaligandaki river, a traditional celebration observed on the occasion of every Nepali New Year that falls on the Nepali month of Baisakh 1, due to coronavirus fear. The administration has urged people not to organise any fair

Twelve youth central members of the major opposition Nepali Congress has appealed to the government to redirect the constituency development fund for the ongoing fight against COVID-19. They have also furnished several action recommendations along with the elongation of lockdown orders for containing the global pandemic in the country. The

Relief supplies have been distributed to around 44,000 poor and disadvantaged households of eight districts in State-2, who were facing trouble in the time of lockdown. According to Information Officer at the State-2 Police Office Police Inspector Tilak Sunar, the relief packages were handed to the indigent sections in eight

– Birat Anupam The Koshi Zonal Hospital of Biratnagar is scheduled to test COVID-19 in its own laboratory. According to Minister of Social Development of State -1 Jiwan Ghimire, the state government has completed all necessary technical and managerial requirements essential for the testing of the global pandemic. ”We have

The Yeti Group has donated Rs 10 million to the Fund set up by the government for the prevention and control of COVID-19 and the treatment of the infected. In a statement released by the Yeti Group here today, it was shared that a cheque bearing the amount was donated