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KATHMANDU: Political reports presented by the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) co-chairs Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal will be submitted to the party’s standing committee. NCP co-chairs Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal are pictured amid the party’s secretariat meeting held on Saturday, December 5, 2020. Photo Courtesy: Rajan Kafle Photo Courtesy: Rajan Kafle NCP’s secretariat meeting held today has scheduled the meeting of the party’s standing committee for Sunday afternoon. Further discussion on the proposals presented in the recent secretariat meetings to resolve the ongoing party conundrums will be held in the…

KATHMANDU: The countrywide Covid-19 tally has advanced to 239,885 as 1,024 additional infections emerged on Saturday. Of the total cases, 402 are females while 622 are males. In the last 24 hours, 460 cases surfaced in Kathmandu Valley. The capital hosts the highest number of active cases. Likewise, 2,206 people who were earlier infected with the virus are reported to have recovered in the past 24 hours as per the latest data provided by health ministry. As of today, 224,053 individuals have recovered from the novel coronavirus infection. The recovery rate, as such, is 93.4 percent. Nepal’s active Covid-19 case…

KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 4 Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has called for universal access to COV- ID-19 vaccines, once they become available. Addressing the General Debate of the ‘31st Special Session of the UN General Assembly in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic’ through a pre-recorded video today, PM Oli said, “The vaccines must be truly global public goods and cannot be the means of maximising profit.” He also called for the genuine collective commitment to fend off the crisis, save lives and protect societies. PM Oli further stressed the need to demonstrate global solidarity and cooperation to tackle the pressing challenges such…

KATHMANDU: President Bidya Devi Bhandari today sent a message of condolences to French President Emmanuel Macron on the passing away of former President of France Valery Giscard d’Estaing. Conveying her deepest sympathies and condolences to the French government, the bereaved family members and the people of France, President Bhandari, in her message, has said that Nepal has lost a good friend. Giscard d’Estaing, who championed European integration and helped modernise French society in the 1970s, died on Wednesday at the age of 94 after contracting COVID-19.   Follow The Himalayan Times on Twitter and Facebook Source link

KATHMANDU: 16 more fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours with which Nepal’s Covid-19 death-tally has now advanced to 1,567. Meanwhile, 1,272 fresh coronavirus cases as reported today took the nationwide Covid-19 case count to 238,861. Over 1.5 million people have lost their lives due to COVID-19 with one death reported every nine seconds on average in the past week, as vaccinations are set to begin in December in a handful of developed nations. On Thursday, 13 individuals diagnosed with Covid-19 had succumbed to the disease. Follow The Himalayan Times on Twitter and Facebook Source link

It is not possible to remove the double taxation system, as demanded by FNCCI, because of the constitutional provisions The newly-elected leadership of the Federation of Nepalese Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI) recently called on Finance Minister Bishnu Poudel and demanded that the government remove the double taxation system, citing that the taxes levied by the federal and provincial governments had dampened the spirit of the private sector. After the country was declared a federal state with three tiers of government in the new constitution, everybody from individuals, businesspersons, corporate sector, service providers to industrialists are required to pay…