ECONOMY, Latest Updates, Coronavirus
Govt urged to allow beverage and cigarette suppliers to operate during the lockdown
Govt urged to allow beverage and cigarette suppliers to oper...
KATHMANDU, May 4: Nepal Beverage & Cigarette Industries Association has urged the Nepal Government to allow beverage and cigarette suppliers to operate by easing some measures of lockdown.
May 04, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates, Coronavirus
Province 5 on high alert after 17 COVID-19 cases reported in two days
Province 5 on high alert after 17 COVID-19 cases reported in...
RUPANDEHI, May 4: High alert measures have been placed in Province 5 following the confirmation of 17 coronavirus infection cases in just two days. Seventeen people were confirmed to have contracted the virus in the province last Saturday and Sunday. A man from Rupandehi, who had been working at a t...
May 04, 2020
POLITICS, Infographic, Republica Watch, Latest Updates
How Bamdev’s hopes to make it to parliament have been dashed every time since 2017
How Bamdev’s hopes to make it to parliament have been dashed...
KATHMANDU, May 4: Ever since Bam Dev Gautam,the vice-chairperson of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), lost his parliamentary race to the Nepali Congress candidate Sanjaya Gautam in December 10, 2017 in the House of Representatives in Bardiya-1, he has repeatedly expressed a desire to rejoin th...
May 04, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
WEATHER ALERT: Thunderstorms and lightning forecast for next three days
WEATHER ALERT: Thunderstorms and lightning forecast for next...
KATHMANDU, May 4: The Meteorological Forecasting Division has warned of precautions as hail storms with thunder and lightning is forecast for the next 24 hours.
May 04, 2020
OPINION
Riddles of electoral democracy
Riddles of electoral democracy
The ongoing wrangling within the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has brought to fore the question of relationship between statecraft and citizenship. In the near history, one of the key indicators to cement this relationship has been the voting process as part of what could be termed as electoral...
May 04, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
MPs Basnet and Shrestha, and former IGP Khanal file case at NHRC
MPs Basnet and Shrestha, and former IGP Khanal file case at...
KATHMANDU, May 4: Lawmakers of the ruling Nepal Communist Party Mahesh Basnet and Kisan Shrestha and a former Inspector General of Police Sarbendra Khanal have filed a case against the leaders of Janata Samajwadi Party including lawmaker Dr Surendra Yadav and a former Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhat...
May 04, 2020
OPINION
The End of the US-China Relationship
The End of the US-China Relationship
NEW HAVEN – It didn’t have to end this way, but the die is now cast. After 48 years of painstaking progress, a major rupture of the US-China relationship is at hand. This is a tragic outcome for both sides – and for the world. From an unnecessary trade war to an increasingly desperate coronavirus wa...
May 04, 2020
POLITICS, Latest Updates, Coronavirus
NC urges health ministry to increase COVID-19 tests in Nepalgunj
NC urges health ministry to increase COVID-19 tests in Nepal...
KATHMANDU, May 4: The main opposition party, the Nepali Congress, on Monday urged the Ministry of Health and Population to increase COVID-19 testing in Nepalgunj of Banke district.
May 04, 2020
My City, Entertainment
Emma Stone talks mental health in times of coronavirus: Write, write and write
Emma Stone talks mental health in times of coronavirus: Writ...
In a rare video appearance, actor Emma Stone is raising mental health awareness while practising social distancing during the coronavirus pandemic.
May 04, 2020
My City, Entertainment
JK Rowling donates 1 million pounds for coronavirus relief
JK Rowling donates 1 million pounds for coronavirus relief
"Harry Potter" author JK Rowling is contributing 1 million pounds to help some of those hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic and the subsequent lockdown.
May 04, 2020