Answering to the questions raised by lawmakers in the parliament yesterday, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli once again stood firm on tooting his own horn and defending his ministers. He started his written speech with calls for maintaining national unity during testing times and thanked politicians for the same. At a time when his government […]
Primary opposition party Nepali Congress (NC) today demanded a detailed breakdown of the expenditure incurred by the government in the prevention and control of coronavirus spread. Speaking at today’s meeting of the House of Representatives after asking for special time, NC said the government had utterly failed in curbing the spread of Covid-19 and accused
UPDATE: A story published earlier said that the flight had been cancelled. An Air Arabia Flight carrying 168 Nepalis took off from the Sharjah Airport in United Arab Emirates (UAE) at 12:03 pm today. Earlier, the flight was said to have been cancelled citing “technical difficulties”. However, the flight took off 40 minutes later than
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A total of 26 Nepali nationals have arrived in Nepal from Myanmar in a Myanmar Airforce Flight today in the first phase of rescue carried out by Nepal government. The aircraft arrived will fly back home with Myanmarese nationals stranded in Nepal for the past two months after the government suspended all international flights with
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The government has decided that a total of 10 flights can be sent to each foreign country in a day to recuse Nepali nationals stranded abroad. According to the instruction issued by the government, everyone willing to enter Nepal in those flights must present their medical report showing negative test result for Covid-19 in order
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New Delhi – India has registered 230 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing its total to 5,394 as the country begins its three-stage reopening on Monday. The lockdown is being eased in most places except for the containment zones now isolated due to coronavirus outbreaks. The Health Ministry said India had 190,535 cases, which
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A four-member probe committee of Nepal Police has been formed to investigate into the ill-treatment of an on-duty doctor at the emergency ward of Nepal Medical College (NMC) in Kathmandu. The CCTV footage of the incident was also deleted immediately to allegedly hide the manhandling. A doctor at NMC was allegedly beaten up on May
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The government has decided to bring home Nepalis citizens that are stranded in various countries other than India. The High-level Committee led by Deputy Prime Minister Iswar Pokhrel made the decision to bring home Nepali nationals on the basis of priority. A meeting held by the Committee in Singha Durbar on Friday passed a workplan
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In a televised address to the nation yesterday, Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli yet again peddled misinformation and distributed tall promises that severely lack substance. In his address, third in the last two months, the prime minster vowed to rescue Nepali migrant workers stranded abroad on the basis of their emergency status. Oli, however, failed
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Maitidevi area of Kathmandu has been sealed for the past three days under the supervision of its ward chair as a precautionary measure after a young man from the area was confirmed with coronavirus infection on last Wednesday. The seal order was lifted yesterday, easing human movement in the area. The people living in same
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