The Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) is preparing to operate direct flight from Bhairahawa-based Gautam Buddha International Airport to New Delhi in India and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia from the end of coming May.
The Ministry of Health and Population will observe a nationwide immunization week from April 24-30. This is part of the ministry's observation of Baisekh throughout as the month of ensuring full vaccination and certification, said the ministry.
India recorded 10,753 fresh COVID-19 cases, taking the number of active infections to 53,720, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Saturday. The toll has climbed to 5,31,091 with 27 deaths recorded in the last 24 hours.
Commercial paragliding flights have been launched in Chitwan. The Himalayan Frontiers Paragliding Company Chitwan has started a commercial paragliding flight coinciding with the Nepali New Year, 2080 BS. The adventure sport aims to attract domestic and foreign tourists visiting the district, said the company chairperson Bijaya Bahadur Ghale.
Tirthamali Pun, the mother of former minister Barshaman Pun, has been injured in a gunshot at Gauridhara in Kathmandu district on Friday night.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was unhurt after a man threw what appeared to be a smoke bomb during his visit to western Japan for a stump speech on Saturday, less than a year after a former premier was fatally shot during election campaigning.
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has said that arrangements will be made to allow Nepali citizens outside the country to vote from abroad. Addressing a program organized virtually by the CPN (Maoist Center) Diaspora Coordination Committee on Friday night, he said that such a provision will benefit millions of migrant Nepalis who have been deprived of voting in elections.
Radha Devi Joshi, wife of centenarian culture expert Satya Mohan Joshi, passed away this morning.
The Jud-sheetal festival is being celebrated in the Mithila region of Madhesh province today.
Hotels and resorts from Nagarkot to Ranikot in the district are filled with foreign and domestic tourists for the past three years to celebrate the New Year 2080. This has excited the hotel operators that have been severely hit since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic.
A man has died after being hit by a stone that fell from a hill. The incident took place while he returning home after fishing in the Tamor river.
An on-site monitoring of the areas affected by the 50 MW United Mewakhola Hydropower Project under-construction in the Mewa River, which flows through the border of Meringden and Mikwakhola Rural Municipalities of Taplejung, was conducted on Friday.
Three of 69 polling stations in Tanahun-1 constituency have been assessed as the 'highly sensitive' in view of the upcoming House of Representatives (HoR) by-election.
The 60th Annual Report of the Office of the Auditor General – the supreme audit institution of Nepal has revealed that budget expenditure system saw serious lapses in lack of compliance on part of the government on fiscal discipline.
Maulakali cable car has been brought into operation at Gaidakot of Nawalparasi (Bardaghat-Susta east) with the beginning of the New Year 2080.