WORLD
Israel bombs Hamas Gaza chief’s home as fighting enters seventh day
Israel bombs Hamas Gaza chief’s home as fighting enters seve...
GAZA, May 16: Israel bombed the home of Hamas’s chief in Gaza early on Sunday and the Islamist group fired rocket barrages at Tel Aviv as hostilities stretched into a seventh day with no sign of abating.
May 16, 2021
OPINION, Latest Updates
Do we have a government?
Do we have a government?
Until and unless the people realize that they have a state at the time of emergency, the political system - irrespective of how fancy it may sound - will neither flourish nor instionanlize. The country turns out to be a laboratory to make experiments of political systems. Anarchy at its worst rules...
May 16, 2021
ECONOMY
NRB issues refinance loans of Rs 123.14 billion in nine months of current FY
NRB issues refinance loans of Rs 123.14 billion in nine mont...
KATHMANDU, May 16: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has released a total of Rs 123.14 billion to 48,860 individuals under refinance schemes in the first nine months of the current fiscal year.
May 16, 2021
SOCIETY
Foreign expedition abandons Everest attempt citing COVID-19 risks
Foreign expedition abandons Everest attempt citing COVID-19...
KATHMANDU, May 16: An international expedition abandoned its attempt to scale Mount Everest on Saturday, citing risks posed by an increasing number of COVID-19 cases at the base camp, the organisers said
May 16, 2021
ECONOMY
Stocks end week with gains stretching May rebound
Stocks end week with gains stretching May rebound
KATHMANDU, May 15: Stocks opened this week’s trading on a negative note stretching its decline from the prior week. The Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index fell 18.50 points on Sunday. However, with back-to-back gains of more than 27 points on Monday and Tuesday, the benchmark recouped all of its los...
May 15, 2021
SOCIETY
Youth group providing free of cost medical care to COVID-19 infected poor, helpless people...
Youth group providing free of cost medical care to COVID-19...
KATHMANDU, May 15: Nepal Youth Foundation (NYF), a charity organization run by a group of youths, has appealed for support to expand its free of cost services to poor and helpless people infected with the COVID-19.
May 15, 2021
SPECIAL, PHOTO FEATURE/Video, Latest Updates
PHOTOS: Rato Machhindranath Chariot pulled for the year
PHOTOS: Rato Machhindranath Chariot pulled for the year
KATHMANDU, May 15: The chariot of deity Rato Machhindranath, Nepal’s longest Chariot Festival, has been pulled for the year.
May 15, 2021
NEPAL, Coronavirus
COVID-19: Nepal confirms 8,167 new cases, 187 deaths on Saturday
COVID-19: Nepal confirms 8,167 new cases, 187 deaths on Satu...
KATHMANDU, May 15: The health ministry confirmed as many as 8,167 new cases of the coronavirus disease in the past 24 hours. With 8,046 people testing positive for the disease through RT-PCR tests and 121 others through the antigen tests, Nepal’s COVID-19 case tally has jumped to 447,704.
May 15, 2021
WORLD, Coronavirus
India’s daily COVID-19 deaths near 4,000 as police sent to halt dumping of bodies
India’s daily COVID-19 deaths near 4,000 as police sent to h...
NEW DELHI, May 15: India reported on Saturday its smallest daily increase in coronavirus infections in nearly three weeks, but deaths stayed near the 4,000-mark as the World Health Organisation warned that the second year of the pandemic could be worse than the first.
May 15, 2021
Coronavirus
Govt bringing oxygen cylinders from Oman, China
Govt bringing oxygen cylinders from Oman, China
KATHMANDU, May 15: The national flag-carrier Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) is bringing oxygen cylinders from Beijing, the capital of China and Muscat, the capital of Oman.
May 15, 2021