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Kathmandu: Tourism operators have demanded the government to make tourism industry operational by adopting safety protocols. Associations aligned with more than two dozen of tourism operators Friday met with Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Minister Yogesh Bhattarai and demanded that the tourism industry which has come to a grinding halt…

Kathmandu: Nepal government is preparing to bring home as many as 500 stranded Nepalis home daily from August 17 in the next phase. Nepal airlines and Himalya airlines will be conducting chartered flights to repatriate the stranded Nepalis abroad due to Covid-19 pandemic and lock down. According to the new…

Kathmandu: Nepal has set a new World Record of ‘The Largest Clean-up of Mount Everest’ for successfully carrying out a garbage cleaning campaign on the Mt. Everest. The largest clean up campaign initiated during the last spring time from April 14 – May 29, 2019, twelve trained Sherpa climbers, including…

Kathmandu: The hotels at Sauraha, the main gateway to the Chitwan National Park, have closed within two weeks since reopening. The hotels that had reopened from July 30 have closed again since Wednesday. The hotels here had remained closed since March 24 with the imposition of lockdown to stem the…

Issuing a statement on Tuesday, Airlines Operators Association of Nepal (AOAN) said airlines operators have already incurred a heavy loss  due to Covid-19 and suspension of flights. The statement further said AOAN will be forced to resort to protest if the resumption of flights are further suspended. Since they are…

Kathmandu: Nepal has opened only 10 border points to allow cross border movement of Nepali nationals across Nepal-India border. The government decided to open only 10 points across border line instead of 20 cross border points already opened due to the increasing risk of Covid-19 in the country. According to…

Kathmandu: Krishnajanmasthami festival or the birth of lord Krishna is being observed across the country with great devotion to Lord Krishna who is considered as one of the prominent Hindu Gods. Legend has it that Lord Krishna was born in the midnight during the July-August time in Mathura when his…

The cabinet meeting held Monday decided to suspend all flights and long distance public vehicles until August end in a bid to prevent the spreading spree of the Coronavirus. The meeting also decided to allow big industries and factories to run with safety measures adopted for their working staff and…

Kathmandu: Department of Immigration has closed all services except the emergency ones after one of its employees tested positive for COVID-19. Department’s Director Ram Chandra Tiwari said PCR test was conducted on 57 employees at the Department and of them, PCR test report of 56 was negative while one was…

  Kathmandu: The high-level Covid-19 Crisis Management Center (CCMC) has recommended the government to postpone the resumption of flights and long-distance public transport for 15 days. The CCMC decided to ask the government to defer the plans for resumption of domestic and international flights from August 17 due to the…