ECONOMY
Foreign investment up in current FY: Rs 30 billion FDI approved
Foreign investment up in current FY: Rs 30 billion FDI appro...
KATHMANDU, Dec 9: Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows have increased this year after the transmission of COVID-19 declined. According to the Department of Industry (DoI), foreigners have taken permission to invest around Rs 30 billion in Nepal in the first four and a half months of the current f...
Dec 09, 2021
SOCIETY
Two killed in truck accident
Two killed in truck accident
MARTADI, Dec 9: Two people died in a road accident at Kapri of Jagannath Rural Municipality-6 in Bajura district Thursday morning.
Dec 09, 2021
POLITICS
MCC should not be passed under any circumstance: Gajurel
MCC should not be passed under any circumstance: Gajurel
KATHMANDU, Dec 9: Chandra Prakash Gajurel, a leader of the CPN (Maoist Revolutionary) led by Mohan Vaidya, has said that the MCC agreement will not be allowed to be endorsed under any circumstance. Speaking at a function in Kathmandu on Wednesday, Gajurel said that the MCC would not be passed under...
Dec 09, 2021
SOCIETY
Senior citizens to get booster dose
Senior citizens to get booster dose
KATHMANDU, Dec 9: The Ministry of Health and Population is to administer a booster dose of vaccine against coronavirus to senior citizens, who are already vaccinated with full-dose of the vaccine.
Dec 09, 2021
POLITICS
RPP forms talks committee for unity, collaboration
RPP forms talks committee for unity, collaboration
KATHMANDU, Dec 9: The Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) has formed a talks committee under coordination of its General Secretary Dhawal Shumsher SJB Rana for unity and collaboration with like-minded individuals, groups, organizations, parties and religious groups.
Dec 09, 2021
ECONOMY
Revenue collection exceeds target in Nawalpur
Revenue collection exceeds target in Nawalpur
NAWALPUR, Dec 9: The Inland Revenue Office Kawaswoti has collected revenue over Rs 2 billion than its target in the first four months of the current fiscal year 2021/22.
Dec 09, 2021
WORLD, Coronavirus
Pfizer, BioNTech vaccine neutralises Omicron with three shots
Pfizer, BioNTech vaccine neutralises Omicron with three shot...
Dec 9: BioNTech and Pfizer (PFE.N) said on Wednesday a three-shot course of their COVID-19 vaccine was able to neutralise the new Omicron variant in a laboratory test, an early signal that booster shots could be key to protection against infection from the newly identified variant.
Dec 09, 2021
WORLD
U.S. Senate passes Republican bill to overturn Biden vaccine mandate
U.S. Senate passes Republican bill to overturn Biden vaccine...
WASHINGTON, Dec 9: The Democratic-controlled U.S. Senate on Wednesday approved a Republican measure that would overturn President Joe Biden's COVID-19 vaccine-or-test mandate for private businesses, with two Democrats joining Republicans to back the initiative.
Dec 09, 2021
OPINION
New COVID-19 has heightened concern globally
New COVID-19 has heightened concern globally
The identification of the Omicron variant has sparked growing concerns over its unusually high number of mutations and rapid spread in South Africa. The United States restricted travelers from South Africa and seven other countries starting Monday. It joined at least 10 other countries restricting t...
Dec 09, 2021
ECONOMY
EU continues with blacklisting Nepali airlines
EU continues with blacklisting Nepali airlines
KATHMANDU, Dec 9: The European Union (EU) has declined to remove Nepali airlines from its prohibition order lists, preventing them from operating in European airspace stating that they still fail to meet the international safety standards.
Dec 09, 2021