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One dies, two injured in a road accident

Posted by | Jan 20, 2021 |

Chitwan- A person died and two others were injured in a road accident at Rapti municipality-5 in east Chitwan. Chandra Bahadur Shrestha, 45, of Khotang died in the accident that took place when a bus and a truck collided with each other in the area nearby Kalika Petrol Pump last night. According to the District Police Office Chitwan spokesperson DSP Surya Bahadur Thapa, a truck (Na 7 Kha 2111) en route to Kakadbhitta from Kathmandu and a truck (Na 6 Kha 4281) coming from opposite direction collided with each other. Critically injured bus driver Shrestha died on the way to a hospital. Other injured are bus helper Binod Sharma Sangraula, 49, of Rautahat Chapur-4 and truck helper Sunil Kumar Sah of Jeetpur-Simara sub-metropolis-23 of Bara. The injured are undergoing treatment at Chitwan Medical College (Old). According to the hospital sources, their condition is medium. Police said that all 15 passengers of the bus are safe. Truck driver has been kept under control of the Bhandara Area Police Office....

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KMC completes construction of 69 infrastructure projects in six months of current FY

Posted by | Jan 20, 2021 | , ,

Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has completed construction of 69 infrastructure projects in the six months of the current fiscal year, 2020/21, said the KMC. Blacktopping of 23 kilometres roads within the KMC and repair of 34,165 square metres roads has been completed. Likewise, construction of four ward buildings, two other buildings and two overhead bridges has been over. Three kilometers road has been plastered. Work like installing drainages along 972 meters and laying blocks along 860 meters has been completed, said KMC’s Spokesperson Ishwor Man Dangol. There are approximately 1,450 kilometers asphalt roads within the KMC. The metropolis repairs only roads below eight meters in width. There are 950 kilometers roads within the KMC below eight meters in width. Under social development, the KMC has projects worth Rs 1.62 billion, said Dangol. KMC has prepared 109 programmes, including 77 programmes that the Department will carry out through the mobilization of internal resources based on the 23 policies on social security adopted by the metropolis, 24 programmes to be carried out with the conditional grants provided by the Government of Nepal and eight programmes implemented through the Prime Minister Employment programme. Among these, 66 programmes have already been started while 32 are in the implementation phase. Similarly, Rs 3.10 billion revenue has been collected so far towards income. Rs 4.22 billion was collected under this heading last year. Based on...

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South Korea to provide anti-COVID-19 vaccine to Nepali free of cost

Posted by | Jan 20, 2021 | ,

The Government of South Korea is to administer anti-coronavirus vaccination to all domestic and foreign nationals residing in its country free of cost. At a press conference held on Monday, Chief of South Korea’s Department of Disease Control and Prevention Jeong Eun-kyeong informed that all domestic and foreign nationals residing in South Korea would be freely administered the vaccine against the COVID-19. Earlier, the Korean government had announced to freely provide vaccines only to its citizens.In the meantime, the government has made a new decision to administer anti-COVID vaccine to all foreigners residing in South Korea. With this decision coming to effect, over 50,000 Nepali presently living in South Korea will also entitle to get the vaccine free of cost. Frontline health workers and volunteers would be put on top priority while administering the vaccine that is to kick start from coming month. Next priority would be given to senior citizens, children, helpless and people living with disabilities, it was shared in the press conference. Lately, South Korea has also confirmed the detection and wider transmission of new variant of coronavirus. Some weeks ago as many as 1,000 cases of coronavirus were diagnosed everyday in the country. But this week the number of coronavirus infection cases was lowered to 400 a day....

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KMC starts removing algae from Ranipokhari

Posted by | Jan 19, 2021 | ,

Kathmandu, Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has started removing algae from the Ranipokhari in a bid to make it clean and more beautiful. It started removing algae from Monday to maintain beauty of the historical Ranipokhari as algae started covering the pond there. The cleaning is being done with support of 20 municipal police personnel daily, said KMC Municipal Police Chief, Dhanapati Sapkota. He added, “National Reconstruction Authority has not handed over the Ranipokhari to KMC after its reconstruction. However, we started removing the algae as the heritage site is under our jurisdiction.” Discussion is underway regarding the issue of filling the water in Ranipokari as problem has surfaced due to decreasing water level, shared Sapkota. After the reconstruction, 32.2 million litres of water was filled in Ranipokhari and there is now only around 20 million litres of water. President Bidya Devi Bhandari had inaugurated the Ranipokhari on October 21, 2020 after its reconstruction. Ranipokhari was damaged by Gorkha earthquake. National Reconstruction Authority had completed reconstruction of Ranipokhari in its own previous style after five years....

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Industrialist Moti Lal Dugar appointed special economic advisor to PM Oli

Posted by | Jan 18, 2021 |

Industrialist Moti Lal Dugar appointed special economic advisor to PM Oli with ministerial rank. A recent cabinet meeting made a decision to this effect. Dugar has been given the ministerial rank. Dugar is a veteran industrialist who served as the State Minister for Industry, Commerce and Supplies from November 2019 to December 25, 2020. Dugar runs MV Dugar Group, a leading business group in...

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