Indian foreign secy stresses on close ties between India, Nepal

KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 26 India’s Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla, who arrived here today on a two-day visit, held a bilateral meeting with his Nepali counterpart Bharat Raj Paudyal. They reviewed several aspects of Nepal-India relations covering...

Banking channel mandatory for distribution of social security allowance

KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 26 The Government of Nepal has made it mandatory for all 753 local levels to distribute social security allowance to beneficiaries through banking channel. A notice recently published by the Ministry of Home Affairs...

Council of trade unions slams employers

KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 26 The Council affiliated to the International Trade Union Federation has called for including workers of the informal and self-employed sectors in the social security scheme. In a joint statement, the three large trade...

Visiting Indian foreign secretary’s high-level meetings continue, calls on PM KP Sharma Oli

KATHMANDU: Visiting Indian foreign secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Thursday evening. Picture courtesy: PM’s Secretariat The meeting was held at the Prime Minister’s official residence in...

785 additional Covid-19 cases reported in the valley on Thursday

KATHMANDU: The three districts of Kathmandu Valley reported a total of 785 new cases of coronavirus infection on Thursday. Of the new cases, 337 are females and 448 are males. As many as 620 cases were...

Culled mink resurface after burial in Denmark

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK: Some of the thousands of mink culled to minimize the risk of them re-transmitting the new coronavirus to humans have risen from their shallow graves in western Denmark after gases built up...

Worldwide coronavirus cases cross 60.37 million, death toll at 1,420,556

LONDON: More than 60.37 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 1,420,556​ have died, according to a Reuters tally. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries...

Nagdhunga tunnel construction begins in full swing amid COVID-19 crisis

KATHMANDU: In spite of facing many challenges corresponding to the Nagdhunga tunnel connecting Sisnekhola in Dhading with Kispidi in Thankot, the Department of Roads (RoR) has begun the construction in full swing amid the...