A day after Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh inaugurated the new route to Kailash Mansarovar, Kathmandu has called upon India to refrain from carrying out activity "inside the territory of Nepal.”
Nepal administration on Sunday announced to extend the nationwide lockdown by 10 days i.e. till May 7 in a bid to curd the coronavirus spread in the country.
It's been a month since Kathmandu Durbar Square fell silent under the spell of lockdown imposed by Nepal Government to avert further spread of COVID-19.
The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has revealed a big plot on the infiltration of some coronavirus suspects into India through the Nepal border in Bihar. The alert was sounded by the SSB following which Bettiah District Magistrate Kundan Kumar wrote a letter to the Superintenent of Police and other officers of the border districts of Narkatiaganj and Bettiah.
The Nepal government on Monday extended the ongoing nationwide lockdown by another eight days till April 15 to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country.
Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has been admitted to a hospital here following an increased heart rate. Oli, 69, was taken to the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital for a medical check-up as he had irregular heartbeats Thursday night.
The government also decided to use Nepal Police hospitals exclusively for the treatment of COVID-19 patients. The government also decided to intensify market monitoring to discourage black-marketing and anomalies in the market.
The epicentre of the quake was located 28.63 degrees north latitude and 87.42 degrees east longitude, with a depth of 10 km, according to the China Earthquake Networks Centre.
In fear of lockdown due to coronavirus, people in Nepal started stockpiling the essentials.
At least 17 people have died after consuming toxic homemade liquor in southern Nepal, police said. The victims consumed the toxic homemade liquor during the Holi celebrations on March 10 in Dhanusha of southern Nepal.
A total of 71 Chinese workers engaged at a construction site in Nepal have been placed under quarantine after their return to the Himalayan nation from China, an official said here on Wednesday
Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli arrived at hospital to undergo kidney re-transplant on March 04.
Nepal police arrested a 22-year-old man who flung shoe at the ruling Nepal Communist Party chairperson, Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda", during a public function on Sunday.
Many Chinese climbers have started cancelling their expedition bookings after the COVID-19 outbreak.
The op-ed on China's bad handling of coronavirus has led to the resignation of the editor of Kathmandu Post, after a strong protest from the Chinese embassy
Nepal Government on February 15 has sent Nepal Airlines' Airbus A-330 to Wuhan, to evacuate its citizens from China amid Coronavirus outbreak.
A Saudi national who recently came to Nepal from China bearing symptoms of novel-coronavirus has fled from a Nepali hospital after doctors advised him to be quarantined, officials said on Wednesday.
Ever since the Nepal government announced its plan to quarantine evacuees from coronavirus-hit Wuhan in Bhaktapur province, locals here are demonstrating against the same as the proposed isolation centre is extremely close to human settlements.
Nepal has suspended the licence of a mountainous resort for three months due to poor security management and managerial weakness at the hotel where eight Indian tourists, including four minors, died of possible asphyxiation, according to media reports. Tragedy struck a group of 15 tourists from Kerala when eight of them died on January 21 due to possible asphyxiation after they fell unconscious probably due to a gas leak from a heater in their room at a mountainous resort in Makwanpur district.
A fire incident has been reported at a coffee shop inside the premises of Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal's capital city of Kathmandu on Monday.
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