President Bidya Devi Bhandari has wished for the speedy recovery of Prime Minister Boris Johnson of United Kingdom. The British Prime Minister is currently undergoing treatment after being hospitalized since his coronavirus symptoms worsened. President Bhandari conveyed her wishes in a message sent to Queen Elizabeth II this afternoon. Recalling

-Ramesh Lamsal The Food Management and Trading Company Ltd. (FMTCL) has started selling daily essentials online from Wednesday. Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Lekhraj Bhatta had directed the state-owned company to digitalize itself to facilitate supply of essentials as the entire country is under lockdown over coronavirus. The company

The state-owned Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) has decided to sell full Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) cylinders from coming Sunday. Today’s meeting of the Board of Directors of the NOC took the decision to open the sale of full cylinder weighing 14.2-kg. NOC spokesperson Binitmani Upadhyay shared that the LPG companies

The government has further tightened the southern border points of the country to minimize the risk of COVID-19 infection with people infiltrating through the porous border. Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa shared that additional teams of Armed Police Force have been deputed to also keep a check on

The Ministry of Health and Population has established COVID-19 crisis management centre (CCMC) in all 77 districts to prevent and control coronavirus. The information was shared at the regular press conference organised by the Ministry on Wednesday. Under the CCMC, Armed Police Force hospital and Nepal Army hospital in Kathmandu

– Prakash Silwal/Sharad Sharma The government is to double the Coronavirus testing capacity following the demand for the same from the States and districts. The current capacity in a total of 10 laboratories doing the test is 3,000 tests per day across the country. This will be expanded through installation,

(Ramesh Lamsal) The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies has been working actively to make sure that there is smooth supply of essential goods including food items during the ongoing nationwide lockdown. Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies Lekhraj Bhatta and his team have been visiting several food stores in

Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA), the country’s sole international airport, has remained closed for around a month due to the rapidly spreading pandemic of coronavirus. However, the airport continues to see international flights during a nationwide lockdown against the disease for two weeks. As informed by the Civil Aviation Authority of

The Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ) has condemned the threat issued to FNJ Khotang secretary Uttam Chaulagain over the publication of news. Nepali Congress president in the district Naresh Kumar Shrestha issued the threat over the news publication. Chaulagain had published a news story on www.prabhavnews.com three days back. Issuing

The Sushil Koirala Memorial Foundation has urged the government to give top priority to the testing and treating of COVID-19 patients. The testing and treating of the coronavirus need to be amplified in order to effectively contain the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, said Foundation’s member secretary Atul Koirala in