Supreme Court Bar election begins

KATHMANDU: Voting to elect the new leadership for Supreme Court Bar Association has begun. Two panels led by senior advocate Purna Man Shakya of democratic lawyers, and senior advocate Ravi Narayan Khanal of progressive lawyers...

Nepal’s Covid-19 death toll advances to 1,777 with 12 more fatalities

KATHMANDU: Twelve more fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours with which Nepal’s Covid-19 death-tally has advanced to 1,777. Meanwhile, 710 fresh coronavirus cases as reported today took the nationwide Covid-19 case count to...

India hits 10 million coronavirus cases but pace slows

MUMBAI: India exceeded 10 million infections of the new coronavirus on Saturday, much later than predicted only a month ago as the pace of infections slow, despite many in the country giving up on...

PM Oli visits Home Minister following his meeting with Dahal

KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has met with Minister for Home Affairs Ram Bahadur Thapa, following his visit to Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal. According to Prime Minister’s press advisor Surya...

Int’l webinar on water and sustainable economic development held

KATHMANDU: United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Study of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Japan and the School of Engineering, Pokhara University, Nepal jointly organised an International Webinar on ‘Water and Sustainable Economic Development – Findings...

Fifth TIFA council meeting held

KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 18 The United States-Nepal Council on Trade and Investment, under the United States-Nepal Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA), held its fifth meeting virtually recently to promote expanded bilateral trade and investment in...

Moderna COVID-19 vaccine gets U.S. authorization, second in eight days

Moderna Inc’s coronavirus vaccine on Friday became the second to receive emergency use authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, welcome news to a nation with a staggering COVID-19 death toll of...

Prime Minister Oli visits Dahal

KATHMANDU: Co-chair of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has paid a visit to the party’s other co-chair Pushpa Kamal Dahal. The meeting is presently being carried out at Dahal’s residence...