Kathmandu : Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health and Population, Upendra Yadav has expressed concern over the increase in the number of mental patients in Nepal every year due to illiteracy, unemployment, migration, social disintegration, poverty and natural disasters.
He expressed this...
Kathmandu : The Water Supply Corporation is to construct a project with support from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) whereby the water of the Madikhola river would be processed and supplied to meet the growing demand for water in Pokhara.
The project would be constructed with Rs 4.80...
Kathmandu : A special report has been prepared on the possible impact, risk and the ways to address them in the scenario of increase in global temperature from 1.5 degree Celsius to 2 degrees Celsius. The 48th plenary session of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) held in Songdo...
Kathmandu : Public Accounts Committee of the House of Representatives has formed a sub-committee to carry out study regarding price hike and shortage of daily essentials including sugar seen in market. Today’s meeting of the PAC formed the sub-committee under coordination of lawmaker Lekhraj...
Kathmandu : The Department of Food Technology and Quality Control has sealed a sweets house in the capital city. The Department confirmed the use of blue dye chemical named Hydro-1 in the chocolates prepared by one Sangam Sweets and Snacks Company.
The officials during a monitoring today confirmed...
Kathmandu : Discussions have been accelerated with bodies concerned to pass the much-talked about Medical Education Bill as soon as possible. The sub-committee of the Health and Education Committee of the House of Representatives has forwarded further discussions to pass the Bill from the...
Kathmandu : The long wait of Kathmandu Valley folks of getting drinking water from the Melamchi Drinking Water Project will be over within the next two months. The Kathmandu Valley folks will get drinking water of Melamchi Drinking Water Project, the project of national pride, at their door steps...
Kathmandu : The Civil Service Hospital of Nepal is being upgraded and renovated with its service expansion and state-of-the-arts physical infrastructure with support from the Government of China. Minister for Federal Affairs and General Administration Lal Babu Pandit and Chinese Ambassador to...
Kathmandu : The government of Japan has provided medical equipment to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH). Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) provided physical and medical equipments worth one billion rupees under the third-phase assistance.
At a programme organised here...
Paris : More than half of all countries will likely fail to hit the UN target of reducing premature deaths from a quartet of chronic diseases by a third before 2030, researchers said Friday. Cancers, heart and blood-vessel disease, diabetes, and chronic respiratory disease combined to kill 12.5...
