Locals in Bhaktapur gather to clean their communal water spout during Thursday’s Sithi Nakha festival.
May 28, 2020
Budget 2020
Finance Minister Yubaraj Khatiwada on his way to deliver Nepal’s annual budget in which he announced setting aside Rs 6 billion for coronavirus control and management.
May 28, 2020
AFP patrol Nepal border
Nepal’s Armed Police Force has started patrol at the bank of the Mahakali River in Byas village near the Nepali territory that India has claimed and built a road through to the Chinese border.
May 15, 2020
Buddha Jayanti in lockdown
Despite the nation-wide COVID-19 lockdown, worshippers for prayers maintaining physical distance to celebrate the auspicious occasion of the Buddha’s 2,564th birthday in Kathmandu on Thursday.
May 8, 2020
Locals violate lockdown
Amidst extension of the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown to last until 18 May, locals in Ghodaghodi, Kailali violate the rules of shutdown and crowd the streets.
May 8, 2020
Parliament as lightning rod
lightning bolt strikes the ground east of the Parliament building during a thunderstorm over Kathmandu Valley on Thursday, even as MPs were getting swab tests for the Budget Session it has its first sitting on 8 May.
May 7, 2020
Parliamentarians get tested for COVID-19
Finance Minister Yubaraj Khatiwada undergoes Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test for the COVID-19 at the Parliament building in Kathmandu on Thursday. All MPs tested for the coronavirus before the Parliament convenes for its budget session on 8 May.
May 7, 2020
View of Kathmandu Valley and Mt Xixapangma and Mt Dorje Lakpa after the rains on Day 40 of the COVID-19 lockdown.
May 4, 2020
Germany supports Nepal on COVID-19
A total of 3000 PCR-Test kits, made in Germany, arrived today in Nepal as cargo in the French repatriation flight. This is part of ongoing bilateral cooperation between Germany and Nepal to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 2, 2020
Withdrawal of the ordinances
Prime Minister K P Oli with co-chair of the NCP Pushpa Kamal Dahal and Sher Bahadur Deuba of opposition Nepali Congress at a meeting in Baluwatar on Saturday to discuss the withdrawal of two controversial ordinances.
April 24, 2020
Oli endorses an ordinance
Prime Minister Oli heads back to his residence in Baluwatar after the Cabinet meeting on Monday that endorsed an ordinance to make it easier for political parties to split.
April 21, 2020
RDT in Bungamati
Healthcare workers perform rapid diagnostic test for the COVID-19 in Bungamati, Kathmandu on Wednesday. Close to 16,000 tests have been performed across Nepal for the novel coronavirus.
April 16, 2020
COVID-19 tests in Achham
A Nepal Army helicopter at Bayalpata Hospital in Achham district in western Nepal on Tuesday from where it collected 51 swab samples for COVID-19 tests.
April 7, 2020
Tara flies food to Humla
Tara aircraft chartered by Nepal Food Cooperation unloads daily essentials such as rice and salt in Similkot, Humla amidst nationwide COVID-10 lockdown.
April 4, 2020
Relief for Rohingya
Gagan Thapa of the Nepali Congress distributing food at a Rohingya refugee camp in Kathmandu on Sunday, a relief operation organised by Ipas Nepal. There are 300 Burmese #rohingya people in Nepal which is in a 2-week COVID-19 lockdown till 8 April.
March 30, 2020
As Nepal goes under lockdown for a week, the streets of the usually busy Kathmandy Valley is completely empty.
March 28, 2020
To enforce the nation-wide lockdown, the Nepal Police has been arresting individuals breaking curfew. The officials used multifunctional rescue & arrest device to make the arrest.
March 28, 2020
North Korean Ambassador to Nepal Jo Young Men meets Parliament Speaker Agni Sapkota on Tuesday in Kathmandu.
March 17, 2020
Prime Minister K P Oli at a video conference of SAARC leaders on Sunday to discuss a plan to combat COVID-19 in South Asia.
March 16, 2020
Miss World 2019 Toni-Ann Singh from Jamaica with Miss Nepal 2019 Anushka Shrestha at Kathmandu Airport on 6 March. Singh for a three-day Beauty with a Purpose event with Shrestha.
March 13, 2020
Chairpersons of Rastriya Prajatantra Party (United) Pashupati SJB Rana and Prakash Chandra Lohani, and chair of Rastriya Prajatantra Party Kamal Thapa signed an agreement to unify their two parties on Tuesday.
March 13, 2020
Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Hou Yanqi receives a banner on Wednesday from Nepal-China Himalayan Friendship Society in solidarity with China in the fight against COVID-19.
March 13, 2020
Speaker with Qatar's Embassy
Speaker of the Parliament Agni Prasad Sapkota and Qatar's Ambassador to Nepal Yousif Bin Mohamed Al-Hail during a meeting at Singha Darbar on Monday.
February 24, 2020
Tumbahangphe is new law minister
Former deputy speaker Shivamaya Tumbahangphe has been appointed as the new law minister. President Bidya Devi Bhandari administered her oath on Monday before Tumbahangphe started her duties.
February 18, 2020