Nepali embassy in UK suspends visa services following new coronavirus variant surge

KATHMANDU: Following the surge of new strain of coronavirus, Nepali Embassy in United Kingdom has stopped issuing visas for Nepal effective from December 23. Issuing a notice on Tuesday, the Embassy in London said that...

EDITORIAL: Split in NCP

The non-ideological feud in the ruling NCP has finally led to the vertical split within 31 months of its unification Thirty-one months after the unification between the then CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist-Centre) to form the...

‘PM Oli saved nation from crisis’

BHAKTAPUR, DECEMBER 22 Chairperson of Nepal Workers and Peasants Party Narayanman Bijukchhe said Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had saved the nation from a big crisis by dissolving the House of Representatives. Bijukchhe asserted that the...

Artistes and contracts: Know your rights

Every artiste is different, and their expectations from a contract are different. Mostly young artistes are just focussed on the lump sum payment and the financial benefit that they will get in the beginning....

Messi surpasses Pele and leads Barca to victory at Valladolid

VALLADOLID: Barcelona turned on the style to thrash Real Valladolid 3-0 away in La Liga on Tuesday as Lionel Messi scored his 644th goal to surpass Pele as the all-time record scorer for a single...

More misery for Arsenal in 4-1 League Cup exit to Man City

LONDON: Arsenal’s miserable season continued as they slumped to a 4-1 home defeat by holders Manchester City in the League Cup quarter-finals on Tuesday. City, who have won the trophy for the last three seasons,...

NCP lawmakers file writ against House dissolution

KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 22 Four former lawmakers of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) today filed a writ petition at the Supreme Court challenging the dissolution of the House of Representatives by the president on the recommendation of...

Worldwide coronavirus cases cross 77.15 million, death toll at 1,698,806

LONDON: More than 77.15 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 1,698,806​ have died, according to a Reuters tally. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries...