Skilled birth attendants: Why rural Nepali mothers need them Two in every 10 Nepali women (19%)give birth at home with no help from a skilled birth attendant (SBA), according to the most recent Nepal Demographic and Health Survey-2022. Opinion 07 Jul, 2023
A stable tax regime is crucial for investor confidence: Coca-Cola Country Director Avasthi Keeping with its trend of launching exciting campaigns during the festive season, Coca-Cola Nepal recently unveiled its new Dashain campaign titled 'Sambanda Utsav Swad Sanga'. The campaign implies that Dashain is a time when families come... Business 18 Sep, 2022
India considers opening COVID boosters to all adults, sources say The country of about 1.4 billion people has administered 1.81 billion vaccine doses, more than 20 million as boosters. World 21 Mar, 2022
Health workers hand over memo seeking risk allowance A dozen frontline health workers of Damauli Hospital in Tanahun district, who served during the first and second wave of COVID-19, have handed over a memo to the chief district officer demanding risk allowance. Nepal 06 Feb, 2022
Nepal says COVID-19 cases may double as daily infections hit record level "Actual numbers could be higher or lower than the likely 20,000 daily cases before they begin to fall." Nepal 18 Jan, 2022
Nepal starts giving COVID-19 vaccine booster shots Nepal, a natural buffer between China and India, has double-vaccinated 39.9% of its 30 million people in a campaign that began early last year. Kathmandu 17 Jan, 2022
Covid-19 booster campaign unrolls in Kathmandu valley a day later than scheduled, 'logistical-confusion' affects jab-drive in Nepal Covid-19 booster campaign unrolls in Kathmandu valley a day later than scheduled, 'logistical-confusion' affects jab-drive in Nepal Nepal 17 Jan, 2022
Cooperation stressed for disaster risk management Minister of Home Affairs Bal Krishna Khand has stressed mutual cooperation for disaster risk management. Nepal 17 Jan, 2022
Frontline workers to be administered booster dose from today The government is all set to administer the booster dose against coronavirus from tomorrow. Nepal 16 Jan, 2022
India gives COVID vaccine boosters to most at risk, hospitalisation low India began administering COVID-19 vaccine boosters to front-line workers and vulnerable elderly people on Monday, with the Omicron variant fuelling an almost eight-fold rise in daily infections over the past 10 days. World 10 Jan, 2022
India's COVID-19 cases multiply, vulnerable groups given vaccine boosters India began administering booster doses of COVID-19 vaccine to frontline workers and vulnerable elderly people on Monday, with the fast-spreading Omicron variant fuelling an almost eight-fold rise in daily infections since the start of the year. World 10 Jan, 2022
How will pandemic end? Omicron clouds forecasts for endgame Pandemics do eventually end, even if omicron is complicating the question of when this one will. But it won't be like flipping a light switch: The world will have to learn to coexist with a virus that's not going away. World 03 Jan, 2022
