TURKEY-ISTANBUL-COVID-19-VACCINATION

TURKEY-ISTANBUL-COVID-19-VACCINATION
Xinhua - A health worker receives a dose of COVID-19 vaccine from China in Istanbul, Turkey on Feb. 11, 2021. Turkey on Thursday began the inoculation of the second doses of China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines for healthcare workers. The nationwide vaccination rollout in Turkey started on Jan. 14. (Photo by Osman Orsal)

Labours deprived of wage

Labours deprived of wage
Baglung - The labours mobilized for construction of a health post building here have been deprived of wage for long. Rabina Construction Company failed to pay them though it has been long the building was over at Pandavkhani of Galkot Municipality-10. The building construction began in 2073BS and was completed in 2076BS. But the workers, traders and even the hoteliers were not paid by the con...

Preparations on to set up Rs 10 billion fund for investment on infrastructures

Preparations on to set up Rs 10 billion fund for investment on infrastructures
Kathmandu - Preparations have been forwarded with the initiative of the Non-Resident Nepalis' Association (NRNA) to establish a fund of Rs 10 billion in a bid to invest in infrastructures sector. For this, it is registering a separate company in Nepal. Decision to this was made at a meeting held in the Finance Ministry on Thursday. As per the agreement made earlier, Nepal government would have fi...

Butwal assembly to be historic: Leader Pokharel

Butwal assembly to be historic: Leader Pokharel
Rupandehi - Standing committee member of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Shankar Pokharel has said a massive assembly was being organized in Butwal city to give a message that the move taken by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli was appropriate. PM Oli dissolved the House of Representatives after the government was cornered much, he reminded, adding that government has every right to go to fresh mandat...

Dholahiti-Lele road widening sees snail pace

Dholahiti-Lele road widening sees snail pace
Kathmandu - The widening drive of Dholahiti-Lele road has not been completed during four years. Average physical progress of the widening drive was only 55 percent as of mid-January 2021. Four years ago, a contract was signed to widen the congested road section to 20 metres. The Kathmandu Valley Road Widening Project said that the drive could not make headway for long due to dispute...

Nembang, Prof Dr Bhattarai prized

Nembang, Prof Dr Bhattarai prized
KATHMANDU - Panchthar Literary figures Bir Nembang and Prof Dr Govindaraj Bhattarai have been prized with Amar Nembang Limbu Memorial Literary Prize. They were handed over the prize at a programme organised by Amar Nembang Limbu Memorial Foundation in Phidim on Monday. The prize carries a purse of Rs 50,000 each. The prize was established in memory of litterateur and the then Chairman of ...

FNCCI seeks recovery package for Covid-19 hit industries

FNCCI seeks recovery package for Covid-19 hit industries
Kathmandu - The Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) has asked the government for making policy arrangements for the recovery and resumption of Covid-19 affected industries. Chief of industry committee of the FNCCI Bharatraj Acharya-led team met with Director General of Department of Industry Jiblal Bhusal on Monday at latter’s office and proposed for mutual co...

Snowfall halts transportation

Snowfall halts transportation
KATHMANDU - Public transportation on the Tribhuvan Highway has been affected due to snowfall in Simbhanjyang and Aghor of the highway. As a result, the Hetauda-Kathmandu transportation remains affected since early this morning, the Area Police Office in Palung said. A decision was taken to stop traffic as accidents were likely with the road becoming slippery due to the snowfall, said spokespe...

Two arrested with brown sugar

Two arrested with brown sugar
Kathmandu - Police have arrested two persons with 17 grams of brown sugar from the Nepal-India border area in Bankuruwa in Beldangi rural municipality. An armed police force unit made the arrest near pillar number 783/2 on Saturday evening. Those arrested are Gorakh Bahadur Bogati,22, of Sukkhad in Ghodaghodi municipality-1 and Sharada BK,23, of Bauniya in Bardagoriya rural municipality-3, ac...

Prosperity not possible without stability and peace

Prosperity not possible without stability and peace
Kathmandu - Chief of Gandaki Province Amik Sherchan has said that development and prosperity were not possible without political stability and peace. Speaking at the 39th annual general meeting of Pokhara Photographers Association Nepal here on Friday, he said that national unity and consensus were also essential for prosperity. "All the Nepalis need to be united to protect freedom and nationalit...