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KATHMANDU: The House of Representatives (HoR) has unanimously passed the government’s Constitution (2nd Amendment) Bill, 2077, which seeks to amend Schedule 3 of the Constitution to update the national coat of arms by incorporating Limpiyadhura, Lipulekh and Kalapani in Nepal’s map.
This is what the new political map of Nepal looks like:
And the Coat of Arms
If most hospitals choose to treat only non-COVID patients, they might go out of business. Health professionals of other hospitals get infected because they do not take all precautions: Health Ministry Spokesman Jageshwor Gautam KATHMANDU, AUGUST 21 Doctors say the government needs to seriously t Read More...
KATHMANDU, AUGUST 21 Law, Justice and Human Rights Committee of the House of Representatives today directed the government to make arrangements for 10,000 ventilators, as the number of COVID-19 cases was likely to climb up to 80,000 by Dashain. Panel Chair Krishna Bhakta Pokharel said the pane Read More...
GENEVA: The World Health Organization hopes the coronavirus pandemic will be shorter than the 1918 Spanish flu and last less than two years, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday, if the world unites and succeeds in finding a vaccine. The WHO has always been cautious about givin Read More...
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Turkey currently depends on imports for most energy needs Erdogan says Turkey could become net energy exporter Officials expect to find more gas in the area ISTANBUL: Turkey announced its biggest natural gas discovery on Friday, a 320 billion cubic metre (11.3 trillion cubic feet) B Read More...
KATHMANDU, AUGUST 21 The findings of a national survey undertaken by Nepal Press Institute and Bournemouth University of the United Kingdom paint a gloomy picture of working journalists, hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the report titled ‘Impact of COVID-19 on Journalism in Ne Read More...
BAJURA, AUGUST 21 Acute shortage of food has hit Bajura district hard. Chief District Officer Krishna Gaire said the shortage of food had been there since Kolti and Kawadi depots in the district ran out of rice stock. Food supply was also halted after the Sanphe-Martadi road section and local Read More...
BARA, AUGUST 21 Police today destroyed 830 sacks of inedible pulses in Bara. The sub-standard food item was confiscated around four months ago, after the police found out that it was being distributed to the families affected by lockdown in Kalaiya sub-metropolis. The pulses stored in a co Read More...
