Tanahun-based Bandipur hospital has put in place an ‘isolation ward’ for providing treatment to COVID-19 suspects. The isolation ward equipped with eight beds was put in place to resist corona menace, shared Bandipur rural municipality chair and hospital management chair Purna Singh Thapa Arrangement has been made to provide treatment

-Narayan Adhikari The incidents of natural death of rhino have gone up at Chitwan National Park over the time. As many as 22 rhinos died due to natural reasons from mid-July 2019 to this date. According to Assistant Conservation Officer of the National Park Prakash Uprety, carcasses of a rhino

Vehicular movement has been completely restricted at Jumanaha checkpoint along Nepal-India border in Banke since Wednesday to avoid possible spread of COVID-19. The security personnel from both the countries have completely controlled the operation of heavy vehicles to cycles entering to Nepal and India via the checkpoint. Though vehicular operation

Nepali Congress leader and former minister for health Gagan Kumar Thapa has suggested govenrment taking effective measures to control global pandemic- covid-19 in the country. He drew the attention of Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ishwor Pokhrel who is also heading the high level coordination committee on Covid-19 control.

The state hospital has brought into operation a six-bed ‘isolation ward’ from today for the treatment of COVID-19 suspects. At a press conference here today, hospital in-charge Dr Sangeeta Mishra informed that six-bed ward, two each in three rooms, has come into operation in conformity with the World Health Organization

The Supreme Court extended condolences on demise of former chief justice Om Bhakta Shrestha and decided to close all courts on Thursday to mourn on Shrestha’s demise. Born on Chaitra 30, 1989BS in Dhankuta district, Shrestha passed away on Wednesday. A full meeting of the SC held on Wednesday after

Minister for Education, Science and Technology Giriraj Mani Pokhrel has made it clear that the govenrment was bound to postpone Secondary Education Examination (SEE) at the last hour after making serious assesment of possible risk posed by coronavirus pandemic. Even the exams scheduled by the univerisites were cancelled, he added,

The secretarait meeting of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) held on Wednesday has urged the government to conduct further effective activities to prevent coronavirus infection and to make people aware about it. The meeting however praised the decisions taken by the high-level coordination committee on control of COVID-19 including

The United Nations (UN) has directed the peacekeepers to adopt high preventive and precaution measures to save off potential infection of COVID-19. The Nepal Army Directorate of Public Relations and Information shared that the UN headquarters at New York has issued circular to adopt higher level of precautions and the

As part of the preparedness to the pandemic of Covid-19, the government has decided to ban travels to Nepal from all European countries, Gulf countries, Iran, Turkey, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan. Even the educational institutions- schools and colleges- are asked to close its all activities till April 12. Even