Ahead of UN climate summit, urgent calls to ‘fix the future’

LONDON: When the Paris Agreement on climate change was finalized after two weeks of fraught negotiations and years of past failures, diplomats hugged and shed tears of joy. They had haggled over verb tenses,...

Schools closed for 10 days

DHANGADI, DECEMBER 10 Schools have been closed for 10 days following a surge in coronavirus cases in Suklaphanta Municipality, Kanchanpur. Community and private schools in the municipality have been closed till December 20 effective from today....

Johan Kalin resigns as head coach of national men’s football team

KATHMANDU: Johan Kalin, head coach of national men’s football team, has resigned from the post. All Nepal Football Association (ANFA)’s executive meeting approved his resignation on Thursday. Coach Kalin, of Sweden, resigned from his position...

Illegal crusher plants yet to shut

RAUTAHAT, DECEMBER 10 Ten days after the decision of district authorities to close down illegally operating crusher plants, these plants are still operating in Rautahat. A meeting of the district monitoring committee under the chairmanship of...

US FDA advisers overwhelmingly back authorizing Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

A panel of outside advisers to the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to endorse emergency use of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, paving the way for the agency to authorize the shot...

Locals growing sugarcane, banana on Bajura roadside

BAJURA, DECEMBER 10 Locals have started sugarcane and banana farming on the roadside from Dabbazaar to Martadi along the Sanphe-Martadi road section in Bajura. Agriculture Knowledge Centre, Bajura, provided loan to local farmers for the...

Australia halts local COVID-19 vaccine development due to false HIV positives

Australia cancels contract for 51m vaccine doses Vaccine led to false positive HIV tests in trials Canberra to buy more of Oxford, Novavax vaccines SYDNEY: Australia cancelled the production of a locally made vaccine against COVID-19 after...

India hits 9.8 million coronavirus cases

India recorded 29,398 new coronavirus infections, data from the health ministry showed on Friday, continuing its trend of declining daily cases. India has recorded 9.8 million cases so far, the world’s second-highest number of infections,...