Indian Foreign Secretary set to visit Nepal

KATHMANDU — Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla will pay an official visit to Nepal on 26-27 November 2020. This will be the first visit of the Foreign Secretary to Nepal since he assumed...

1,980 new cases recorded on Monday; Nepal’s Covid-19 tally hits 222,288

KATHMANDU: Nepal on Monday reported 1,980 new cases of coronavirus infection from across the country. With this, the nationwide infection count has advanced to 222,288. Likewise, 3,043 people who were earlier infected with the virus...

Indian Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla arriving on Thursday

KATHMANDU: Foreign Secretary of India Harsh Vardhan Shringla is arriving in Nepal for a two-day official visit later this week. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that Shringla is coming to Nepal at the invitation...

NCP will stay intact, says Rawal

DHANGADI, NOVEMBER 22 Ruling Nepal Communist Party Sudurpaschim Province Incharge Bhim Rawal today said that the rift seen between the two party chairs would not lead to a split in the party. Speaking at a press...

Bajura remote areas linked to national grid

BAJURA, NOVEMBER 22 Far-flung areas of Bajura have been connected to the national transmission line for power supply for the first time. Nepal Electricity Authority, Bajura, Distribution Centre Chief Mahesh Chandra Bhatta said the district was...

Drying habitat makes Australia’s platypus vulnerable, scientists say

SYDNEY: Australian scientists pushed on Monday to list the platypus as a vulnerable species after a report showed the habitat of the semi-aquatic native mammal had shrunk more than a fifth in the last...

AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine can be 90% effective, results show

LONDON: AstraZeneca said on Monday its vaccine for the novel coronavirus, developed along with the University of Oxford, could be around 90% effective under one dosing regimen. File – Vials with a sticker reading, “COVID-19 / Coronavirus vaccine /...

Closure of schools pushing students into drug addiction

RAUTAHAT, NOVEMBER 22 More school going students have started taking drugs after schools shut down for more than seven months following the outbreak of coronavirus in Rautahat. Locals say school students have fallen prey to drugs...