By Sampada A. Khatiwada Kathmandu, Feb. 12: The Home Ministry on Thursday issued a press statement clarifying that approval of local levels for women to fly abroad was not made mandatory yet. The Home Ministry made the clarification after a proposal of the Department of Immigration to the Ministry to […]
Economy
Development budget expenditure at 14.57% in six months
KATHMANDU: The government has been able to spend merely 14.57 percent of the allocated development budget for 2020-21 fiscal year. As per the statistics maintained by the Financial Comptroler General Office (FCGO), development budget expenditure (capital expenditure) stands at 51.4 billion till mid-January of Rs 392 billion development budget allocated […]
Nepal approves use of ‘covishield vaccine’ against COVID-19
January 15, 2021 KATHMANDU: The Department of Drug Administration (DoA) has given approval to the use of covishield vaccine against COVID-19 in Nepal. The covishield vaccine is developed by Serum Institute of India. “Conditional permission has been granted for emergency use authorization of covishield vaccine against COVID-19 as per the […]
India embarks on world’s largest COVID vaccination drive
January 15, 2021 NEW DELHI — India is set to launch an ambitious vaccination drive on Saturday, one that will cover about 300 million of the nation’s 1.3 billion people in the next few months. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will kick off the drive via a video conference connecting 3,006 vaccination […]
North Korea Holds Huge Military Parade as Kim Vows Nuclear Might: The parade, which included a new submarine-launched ballistic missile, closed out the eight-day Workers’ Party congress
January 15, 2021; North Korea rolled out developmental ballistic missiles designed to be launched from submarines and other military hardware in a parade that punctuated leader Kim Jong Un’s defiant calls to expand his nuclear weapons program. State media said Kim took center stage in Thursday night’s parade celebrating a […]