SOCIETY, Latest Updates, Coronavirus
Govt to review decision to resume aviation service, long-distance public vehicles as COVID...
Govt to review decision to resume aviation service, long-dis...
KATHMANDU, Aug 6: Although the government earlier announced to resume long-distance public transport and lift the suspension of domestic and international flights beginning next week, a sudden spike in the cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in various parts of the country including the Kath...
Aug 06, 2020
WORLD
Lebanon mourns victims of devastating blast, searches for missing
Lebanon mourns victims of devastating blast, searches for mi...
BEIRUT: Aug 6: Lebanon mourned on Thursday the victims of the most powerful blast to hit the country that was already being crushed by an economic crisis, as rescuers searched for those missing since the explosion that flattened Beirut port and devastated the city.
Aug 06, 2020
Latest Updates, Coronavirus
Can you get the coronavirus from secondhand smoke?
Can you get the coronavirus from secondhand smoke?
Secondhand smoke isn’t believed to directly spread the virus, experts say, but infected smokers may blow droplets carrying the virus when they exhale.
Aug 06, 2020
WORLD
Sri Lanka counts votes from parliament election
Sri Lanka counts votes from parliament election
COLOMBO, Aug 6: Sri Lanka on Thursday began counting votes for a parliament election which President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s party is widely expected to win, cementing his grip on power.
Aug 06, 2020
OPINION, Latest Updates
Gaze of Covid-19 on academia
Gaze of Covid-19 on academia
A usual calendar would have allowed this time of the year for plus two schools and colleges to spread their charismatic slogans throughout the country. A series of billboards would have produced the most photogenic smiles of the students of the given college flaunting their successes, presumably bec...
Aug 06, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates, Coronavirus
25 more cases of COVID-19 detected in Kapilvastu
25 more cases of COVID-19 detected in Kapilvastu
KAPILVASTU, Aug 6: The community level transmission of COVID-19 is feared in Kapilvastu after 25 fresh cases were detected on Thursday morning.
Aug 06, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Road connecting Rolpa district headquarters damaged, locals irked
Road connecting Rolpa district headquarters damaged, locals...
ROLPA, August 5: The main road that connects Libang, headquarters of Rolpa, to Ghartigaun looks like a chain of small muddy ponds posing a threat to the safety of passengers and commuters. This has quite enraged the locals who had demanded that the 31 kilometers long road which was already in a dila...
Aug 06, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates, Coronavirus
43 diagnosed with COVID-19 in Birgunj including medic, army personnel and banker
43 diagnosed with COVID-19 in Birgunj including medic, army...
BIRGUNJ, Aug 6: Forty-three more people tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Birgunj, which has turned into a hotspot of this disease in recent days.
Aug 06, 2020
My City, Entertainment
Twin YouTube stars charged over phony bank robbery
Twin YouTube stars charged over phony bank robbery
Twin brothers who have won millions of followers by posting prank videos on social media have been charged for faking bank robberies in Southern California and could go to prison if convicted, authorities said Wednesday.
Aug 06, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates, Coronavirus
NCP Executive Chairman Dahal's six security guards test positive for COVID
NCP Executive Chairman Dahal's six security guards test posi...
KATHMANDU, Aug 6: Six of the security personnel for the security of ruling Nepal Communist Party Executive Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal have been infected with novel coronavirus.
Aug 06, 2020