We need to accept that world economy has been disrupted by COVID-19 in unimaginable way, says Ashok Pokharel, President of Nepal Association of Tours Operators, while urging the tours operators to keep their ears to the ground and eyes open.
KATHMANDU, JANUARY 22 The demonstration staged by the Dahal-Nepal faction of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) over dissolution of the House of Representatives threw the city traffic out of gear after thousands of party cadres staged rallies from more than a dozen places of Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Read More...
LONDON: There is some evidence that a new coronavirus variant first identified in southeast England carries a higher risk of death than the original strain, the British government’s chief scientific adviser said Friday -- though he stressed that the data is uncertain. Patrick Vallance told a ne Read More...
WASHINGTON: Opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial for Donald Trump over the Capitol riot will begin the week of Feb. 8, the first time a former president will face such charges after leaving office. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced the schedule Friday evening after reach Read More...
ATLANTA: His name is all over the baseball record book and, indeed, Hank Aaron could do it all. Sure, he's remembered mostly for dethroning the Babe to become baseball's home run king on the way to 755, but don't forget about the .300 average, or the graceful way he fielded his position, or the d Read More...
HAMDAYET: The young coffee seller said she was split from family and friends by an Ethiopian soldier at the Tekeze river, taken down a path, and given a harrowing choice. “He said: ‘Choose, either I kill you or rape you’,” the 25-year-old told Reuters at the Hamdayet refugee camp in Sudan w Read More...
GENEVA: The World Health Organization said on Friday it had reached an agreement with Pfizer/BioNTech for 40 million doses of its COVID-19 vaccine and should be able to start delivering vaccines to poor and lower-middle income countries next month under its COVAX programme. The COVAX scheme, led by Read More...
HETAUDA, JANUARY 22 Bagmati Provincial Assembly is set to start discussion on the no-trust motion registered against Chief Minister Dormani Poudel from February 1. The no-confidence motion filed against Poudel at the Province Assembly on December 20 was tabled in the Province Assembly today. Read More...
RAJBIRAJ, JANUARY 22 Janata Samajbadi Party-Nepal senior leader Rajendra Mahato said the unconstitutional move of dissolving the House of Representatives had put federalism and republicanism at risk. Speaking at a press conference in Rajbiraj today, the JSP-N leader likened Prime Minister KP S Read More...
