Considering possible outbreak of COVID-19, the government has planned to immediately develop the public quarantine of at least 5000 beds in the capital city. The first meeting of the Quarantine Site Development and Management Taskforce held on Sunday decided to get jointly mobilize all bodies concerned for the quarantine development

Traffic police on Sunday took action against 20 persons for charging the passengers higher transportation fare in the public vehicles in the Kathmandu Valley. Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (MTPD) in Kathmandu acted on the complaints registered by the passengers on the traffic hotline 103. MTPD Chief Senior Superintendent of Police

President Bidya Devi Bhandari and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli have held discussions on the contemporary issues of the country as well as about the measures taken to prevent pandemic COVID-19. In a regular meeting held at the office of the President in Shital Niwas today, PM Oli appraised President

Ramesh Lamsal Making onsite visit of the Upper Tamakoshi Hydropower Project on Sunday, Minister for Energy Barsha Man Pun has vowed to generate power from the project by the end of the current fiscal year. Minister Pun along with the top officials of the Ministry and Nepal Electricity Authority reached

The federal government has asked the medical officers, senior physicians and medical students in all the states to get mobilized against the outbreak of COVID-19. The Ministry of Health and Population called for deploying the medical human resources working under the states for prevention and control of the coronavirus pneumonia

It has been decided to show a red flag to all international flights in the country from this midnight till the next nine days bearing in mind a global pandemic of COVID-19. The regulatory body Civil Aviation Authority on Saturday issued an urgent notice deciding to close the entire international

Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF), Pulchowk, Lalitpur has closed its all financial transactions until April 3 over coronavirus fear. It is to be effective from today. The EPF’s decision in this regard aims to reduce the infection risks, said Rameshwor Shrestha, representative of the EPF’s Pulchowk branch, adding that it however

Indian Ambassador to Nepal, Binay Mohan Kwatra, paid a courtesy call on Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa today. They discussed the bilateral relations, cooperation and mutual assistance. On the occasion, Minister Thapa extended best wishes to the Indian envoy and believed that Nepal-India relations would reach a new height during

Speakers at a discussion in the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology today stressed the need of right and timely information in times of crisis. As the entire world is braving coronavirus, effective role of media is sought in Nepal too. The state-owned and private media houses have been praised

Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has called on the entire party hierarchy and the mass to be more careful to the heightened risk of coronavirus infection in the aftermath of its global pandemic. In a press note today, Chair Dahal called all for taking special measures