POLITICS
NC to hold parliamentary party meeting today
NC to hold parliamentary party meeting today
KATHMANDU, May 8: The main opposition party, Nepali Congress (NC), is scheduled to hold its parliamentary party meeting later today.
May 08, 2021
WORLD, Coronavirus
WHO panel OKs emergency use of China’s Sinopharm vaccine
WHO panel OKs emergency use of China’s Sinopharm vaccine
GENEVA, May 8: The World Health Organization gave emergency use authorization Friday to a COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by China’s Sinopharm, potentially paving the way for millions of the doses to reach needy countries through a U.N.-backed program rolling out coronavirus vaccines.
May 08, 2021
SOCIETY
69 including 15 lawmakers of federal parliament test positive for COVID-19, one succumbs t...
69 including 15 lawmakers of federal parliament test positiv...
KATHMANDU, May 8: As many as 69 individuals including 15 lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19 in the test conducted by the parliament secretariat.
May 08, 2021
WORLD
How the U.S. locked up vaccine materials other nations urgently need
How the U.S. locked up vaccine materials other nations urgen...
LONDON, May 8: To fight the pandemic at home, the United States gave its own vaccine manufacturers priority access to American-made materials needed to make the shots.
May 08, 2021
WORLD
Maldives former president Nasheed critical after bomb blast
Maldives former president Nasheed critical after bomb blast
MALDIVES, May 8: The Maldives speaker of parliament and former president, Mohamed Nasheed, was in critical care on Friday after being severely wounded in a bomb blast outside his home, hospital authorities said, in what police are treating as a terrorist attack.
May 08, 2021
ECONOMY
Wide-body plane flying to Beijing to bring oxygen cylinders
Wide-body plane flying to Beijing to bring oxygen cylinders
KATHMANDU, May 8: A wide-body aircraft of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) is flying to Beijing, China on Monday to bring the much-needed health equipment and oxygen cylinders.
May 08, 2021
POLITICS
Deuba, Dahal reach understanding to foil PM Oli's bid to secure vote of confidence
Deuba, Dahal reach understanding to foil PM Oli's bid to sec...
KATHMANDU, May 8: Nepali Congress (NC) President Sher Bahadur Deuba and CPN (Maoist Center) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal have reached an understanding to foil the bid of Prime Minister K P Oli to secure vote of confidence from parliament.
May 08, 2021
NEPAL, WORLD, Latest Updates
Sherpa guide scales Mount Everest for record 25th time
Sherpa guide scales Mount Everest for record 25th time
KATHMANDU, May 8: A Sherpa guide scaled Mount Everest for the 25th time on Friday, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak.
May 08, 2021
ECONOMY
Nepse closes week higher after two-week decline
Nepse closes week higher after two-week decline
KATHMANDU, May 7: The equity market staged a notable recovery in the first trading day of the week. The Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index shot up by more than 54 points on Sunday. Stocks pared some of the gains on Monday with the market shedding 12.36 points in the session. After a marginal advance...
May 07, 2021
WORLD
Myanmar junta says no ASEAN envoy visit until stability restored
Myanmar junta says no ASEAN envoy visit until stability rest...
MYANMAR, May 7: Myanmar's ruling military, which is facing nationwide protests against the coup that removed the elected government three months ago, said on Friday it would not agree to a visit by a Southeast Asian envoy until it could establish stability.
May 07, 2021