India-Nepal 'friendship bus service' resumes after over a year
India | November 10, 2021 13:37 ISTThe bus will leave Siliguri thrice a week at 3:00 pm and reach Kathmandu via Kakkarvitta-Panitanki "Indo-Nepal" border the next day around 11:00 am.
The bus will leave Siliguri thrice a week at 3:00 pm and reach Kathmandu via Kakkarvitta-Panitanki "Indo-Nepal" border the next day around 11:00 am.
The flooding and landslide that started earlier this week have left hundreds displaced and damaged crops and properties worth millions.
Ashish Mishra, son of Union minister, Ajay Mishra Teni, failed to turn up before the Lakhimpur police on Friday to record his statement.
The 12-member SSB delegation will be led by DG Kumar Rajesh Chandra while the nine-member Nepalese side will be headed by the APF's IG Shailendra Khanal.
Foreign visitors will need to go through antigen tests after their arrival, and put in isolation if they test positive.
Decked up in red-coloured finery, several young girls under the age of seven lined up to be worshipped turn by turn at the Basantapur Durbar Square in Kathmandu for the 'Kumari Puja'. It is a tradition that worships pre-pubescent girls as manifestations of Goddess Taleju. Taleju is the Nepalese name for Goddess Durga.
Family members of Aitbariya, who had abandoned all hopes to see her again, are now waiting eagerly for her return from New Delhi where she had reached on Friday.
Though just 14.2 percent population is fully vaccinated and 17.7 percent population has received at least one dose of the Covid vaccine, it is estimated that the rest of the population has been infected with Covid-19.
The vaccine will be imported under the World Bank's financing, according to a press statement by World Bank, Nepal office.
Under its grant assistance programme, Japan has pledged to donate 1.6 million doses of the vaccine to Nepal.
With the fresh mutant of Delta variant spreads out in Himalayan Nation exceeding cases of daily infection, shelter for COVID-19 patients has been set up at Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital. From beds to oxygen cylinders, everthing has been lined up following the growing cases of Delta COVID variant. Sukraraj Tropical Hospital which has capacity of 100 general beds patients have been admitted in 35 beds while 22 of its 28 ICU beds has been occupied.
Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Sunday won a trust vote in the House of Representatives with 165 votes. Deuba secured 165 votes in his favour while 83 votes were cast against him.
Nepal's new Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba sprang a surprise on Sunday by seeking a vote of confidence in the reinstated lower House of Representatives and comfortably won it, averting a general election in the Himalayan nation amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sher Bahadur Deuba needs 136 votes as there are only 271 members in the House presently.
The 75-year-old veteran politician and Nepali Congress President took the oath of office and secrecy from President Bidya Devi Bhandari during a swearing-in ceremony at the President's Office, Sheetal Niwas, which was delayed by over two hours.
Sher Bahadur Deuba, the newly-appointed prime minister of Nepal, refused to take his oath after he spotted a "mistake", The Himalayan Times reported on Tuesday.
Nepal’s Opposition leader Sher Bahadur Deuba is set to form a small Cabinet on Tuesday, a day after the Supreme Court directed President Bidya Devi Bhandari to appoint the Nepali Congress chief as the country's new prime minister.
It seems like Nepal is not taking the ongoing pandemic situation seriously as the restrictions on the public vehicles have been lifted by the local authorities despite third wave warning.
A cabinet meeting decided on Monday to allow flights to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan, said Buddhisagar Lamichhane, joint secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation.
Meanwhile, the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu organised a special programme on Monday to observe the 7th International Day of Yoga. The programme was organised virtually as part of its ongoing celebration of India@75 'Azaadi ka Amrit Mahotsav'.
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