Posted by Himalaya Post | Aug 22, 2020 | Featured, News
The Narayangadh-Muglin road section has been obstructed due to dry landslide. Dry landslide occurred on the road section located in ward no. 5 of Icchyakamana rural municipality at around 1:00 am today, according to District Police Office. The landslide has blocked the road completely, bringing traffic to a standstill. The work to remove the debris of the landslide has begun....
Read MorePosted by Himalaya Post | Aug 22, 2020 | Abroad, Featured
Diplomatic passport holders of Nepal and Israel will not require a VISA to travel to one another country for up to 90 days. An agreement to this end was signed between the two countries on Friday. At a function held at the Foreign Ministry of Israel in Jerusalem, Nepali Ambassador to Israel Dr Anjan Shakya and the Foreign Minister of Israel signed the agreement on behalf of their respective countries, according to the Nepali Embassy in Jerusalem. On the occasion, Ambassador Shakya proposed increasing the training period of Nepali students coming to Israel on the ‘learn and earn’ project to develop them as expert consultants. The best among the students should be selected to continue beyond the currently 11 month-long training period, she said. Matters relating to resuming recruitment of Nepalis as caregivers and in other areas of employment were also discussed during the meeting, the Embassy has said in a...
Read MorePosted by Himalaya Post | Aug 21, 2020 | News
Bikram Giri The number of coronavirus infections has exceeded 30,000 in the country with 838 new cases in the last 24 hours. Now, the total number of people infected with coronavirus has reached 30,483. A total of 13,579 persons were undergone PCR test across the country in the latest round. Spokesperson at Ministry of Health and Population, Dr Jageshwor Gautam, shared at a press meet that among the infection on Friday, 546 are males and 242 females. Similarly, 250 people recovered their normal health. With this, the total number of people getting free from the virus has reached 18,214. As many as 133 infected persons have been undergoing treatment with ventilator support in different parts of the country. The active cases of infection stand at 12,132 now. Similar number of people is in quarantine and isolation, according to Dr Gautam. The latest infections are recorded in 50 districts. 182 cases in Kathmandu Valley In the last 24 hours, 182 persons got infected from the Kathmandu Valley alone. Among them, 142 are from Kathmandu, 25 from Lalitpur and 15 from Bhaktapur district. 11 die in a single day On a single day, 11 persons are recorded dead. It is the highest number of fatality so far. The deaths are from Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Chitwan, Bara, Parsa, Morang, Saptari, Sarlahi, Makwanpur and Dolakha districts. With this, the number of people dying of...
Read MorePosted by Himalaya Post | Aug 21, 2020 | Main News, News
The Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) has decided to conduct Kathmandu-Dubai chartered flight on August 23. The NAC informed that the scheduled flight for the same was postponed on August 18. The home returnees who had already booked the flight would be brought on Sunday. The NAC has asked all passengers to compulsorily bear the COVID-19 test report (negative) together. The chartered aircraft will leave Kathmandu for Dubai at 7:30 am and arrive home at 4:15pm the same day. The aircraft had returned home empty, leaving the passengers in the airport on August 18 reportedly in the lack of quarantines to keep the returnees in...
Read MorePosted by Himalaya Post | Aug 21, 2020 | Economy
Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has directed the remittance service providing companies to make arrangements so that the remittance send by the Nepali citizens in abroad employment can be withdrawn easily in the situation of lockdown. The central bank has also directed the remittance service providing companies to open their counter for paying the money remitted by Nepalis on foreign employment to their families. Lockdown has been imposed since Thursday in various places of the country including in Kathmandu Valley following the increased risk of coronavirus pandemic. NRB stated in a press release today that the remittance service provider firms have been urged to make these arrangements in view of the difficulty faced by the families of those Nepalis who are in abroad employment as they cannot easily access the remittances due to the lockdown. It also urged these companies to open their counter and provide the remittance-related financial services throughout the lockdown period by adopting all the health safety process with the presence of minimum number of staff by coordinating with local administration. Likewise, the central bank has urged all to carry out the remittance fund transfer and foreign currency exchange in coordination with the bank and financial institutions as well as to make the transactions electronically as far as possible by fully keeping to the health safety...
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