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PM to launch Covishield Vaccine Program

Posted by | Jan 27, 2021 | ,

Kathmandu- Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli is virtually launching the vaccination drive against COVID-19 at 10 am today. Assistant Spokesperson of the Ministry of Health and Population Dr Samir Kumar Adhikari shared this information. Minister for Health and Population Hridayesh Tripathi and other ministers are also scheduled to attend the virtual launching of vaccination. With the launching of the drive, the people enlisted would be administered with COVID-19 vaccines from 62 hospitals of all seven provinces, 17 hospitals of the capital and over 120 vaccine stations today. Likewise, the COVID vaccines would gradually be administered through 300 vaccine stations of all 77 districts. Nepali people are receiving the vaccines after a year since the first case of coronavirus infection in the country. Nepal had first spotted coronavirus infection on 23 January 2020. As informed vaccine stations will be placed in 12 hospitals of Kathmandu, three of Lalitpur and two of Bhaktapur. It may be noted that vaccines have been made available in Nepal with Indian assistance. The Ministry of Health has set a target to complete the vaccination campaign of the first phase within 10 days following its beginning. Vaccines would be administered to around 430,000 people in the first phase. The Covishield vaccine was developed on the joint venture of the Oxford University and Extrogenica Drugs Producer Company. India’s Serum Institute produced the vaccine in mass scale. First...

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Dr. Laksamba passes away from brain stroke in the UK

Posted by | Jan 27, 2021 |

London- A coronavirus-infected Nepali died of brain stroke while undergoing treatment at a hospital in the United Kingdom. Prof Dr Chandra Laksamba, a permanent resident of Sikaincha, Taplejung, who has long been residing in the UK, passed away at Farnabaro-based hospital in Britain, shared his colleague Dr Krishna Adhikari. Dr Laksamba was an academic personality with his ex-Gurkha background. He was put on ventilator after brain stroke while being treated at the hospital after contracting the coronavirus since last January 18. His surgery could not take place due to high blood pressure, the hospital sources said. After retirement from the Gorkha Army, Laksamba, 59, had served the Oxford University as a research assistant for around two years and as a project coordinator of a census project implemented by Nepal Study Centre, UK from 2006 to 2009 to identify Nepali populace in the UK. O f late, he had quit his stay and returned Nepal and also started serving the Nepal Open University as a Professor. He had come to the UK to visit his spouse and family members some time ago. It may be noted that the Nepal government had appointed him as a member of the Bouddha University Council last year. He is survived by his spouse and two sons....

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Fire destroys 25 houses in Gothigaun of Jumla

Posted by | Jan 27, 2021 |

Jumla- A fire that broke out at Gothigaun in Tila rural municipality-7, Jumla Pokhari has turned 25 houses into ashes. According to Public Information Officer and Police Inspector of District Police Office, Humla, Yuwan Kumar Chaudhary, all 25 houses were completely destroyed in the fire incident that spread from a pipe of an improved stove in the village which is 35-km away from the district headquarters, Jumla Khalanga. The inferno caught the dry grass on the roof top of the house and got spread, he shared. As many as 20-25 cattle were also burnt alive along with the destruction of the house, Chaudhary added. “The fire incident had occurred at around 7.00 pm as informed by the local witness”, he briefed. A police team comprising six personnel from Tila-1, Raralihi police post and Kudari police post had reached the incident site immediately after being informed of the fire outbreak, he further shared. Later, a 26-member police squad including a 15-member team from Jumla headquarters under the leadership of Police Inspector Nabin Thapa Magar and a 11-member team led by Assistant Inspector of the Armed Police Force Laxmi Prasad Sharma was mobilized to the fire site, informed Jumla’s Chief District Officer Bhupendra Thapa. CDO Thapa said that the fire had caused a big loss due to geographical remoteness and inadequacy of water sources. As the fire has not been completely...

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Construction of Manohara corridor concludes

Posted by | Jan 27, 2021 |

Kathmandu- Construction of the Manohara corridor – al alternative route to Koteswor-Jadibuti has completed. According to the Division Road Office Kathmandu, the road from Balkumari bridge to bailey bridge through Manohara corridor has been blacktopped. The Bailey bridge connects Lokanthali and Narephant of Bhaktapur. Division Chief Kunwar Nepal shared that the corridor construction that started some eight years ago has come to a completion now. He further said the completion of the construction is much expected to reduce traffic congestion on Koteswor-Jadibuti section since vehicles bound to Bhaktapur from Lalitpur can travel directly through Balkumari. He also said that many people however are not aware of the completion of corridor construction. “Traffic flow along the Kopteswor-Jadibuti would slash with the rise in the use of corridor”. The 1.2-km corridor was constructed tentatively at the cost of Rs 150 million. Before this, the Balkhu-Balkumari corridor along the Bagmati river has already come into operation. With this, any vehicle can move to Bhaktapur from Balkhu without reaching to the main road. In order to allay traffic pressure on the main roads, the government has continued the construction of corridors along the Bagmati and its auxiliary rivers. Corridor construction is gaining momentum along the Bagmati, Dhobikhola, Nakhkhu, Bishnumati and Manoharakhola....

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Sanjeevani Group calls for repealing decision on foreign investment in agriculture sector

Posted by | Jan 27, 2021 | ,

India–The Sanjeevani Group has urged the government to withdraw its decision regarding letting foreign direct investment in the domestic agriculture sector. The Group said the government’s recent decision of bringing in foreign investment in agriculture would not benefit the farmers but rather have adverse impact on food sovereignty. A press release issued by Group urged for protecting the Nepali farmers, respecting the food sovereignty, preserving biodiversity and environment, protecting the self-dependent indigenous cultivation process, and safeguarding human’s health from maximum use of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO), arguing that agriculture is the basis of life and not a trade. The Group drew attention of stakeholders to protect agro system based on Nepali culture, to protect partial or full self-employment of farmers, to reduce climate change, not to allow foreign intervention on land and natural resources and to maintain overall nature-friendly agriculture system. The group coordinator Uddhav Adhikari viewed that foreign investment in agriculture would have a direct impact on unique identity of Nepal, the ancestral occupation of two-thirds Nepali people and their livelihoods and dent country’s original agriculture system. It also causes various setbacks wherein not only small and medium scale farmers, big and professional farmers could not compete in the market, the whole agriculture sector would get affected and food system of the country would be in the hands of foreigners, according to him. Various ways like state’s investment...

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