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Prohibitory order lifted in Banke district
Aug 16, 2020
Banke, August 15 Banke Administration has lifted the prohibitory order from last night. The administration had imposed the order 13 days ago after coronavirus was detected in the community. Banke Chief District Officer Ram Bahadur Kurumbang said the prohibitory order had been lifted from yesterday midnight. Given the present situation of the distri...
14 COVID patients out of contact in Banke
Aug 10, 2020
NEPALGUNJ, AUGUST 9 At least 14 COVID patients have gone out of contact due to lack of coordination among Banke Health Office, district laboratory and local levels in Banke. According to Banke Health Office, the missing patients had tested positive for COVID-19 using polymerase chain reaction method in the past two days. While three of them were di...
Locals of Nayagaun face double insecurity at Nepal-India border
Aug 7, 2020
RANJHA: People in Nayagaun in Raptisonari Rural Municipality-4 of Banke district have been compelled to live with double insecurity due to border encroachment by the Indian side and because of timber and river-based aggregates smugglers. Locals complained about their problems as they interacted with a study team, led by Province Assembly member of ...
VTM crunch hits Banke
Aug 7, 2020
Nepalgunj, August 6 The shortage of Viral Transport Medium used for collecting and transporting swab samples has hit the health offices in Banke. The local levels bought the VTMs and offered them to health offices as they did not have it. Mayor of Nepalgunj sub-metropolis Dhawal Shamsher Rana said the local levels bought the VTMs as the health offi...
Gold import at five-year low last FY
Jul 31, 2020
KATHMANDU, JULY 30 As a result of the lockdown imposed to contain the spread of COVID-19 and plummeting demand amid global price surge, import of gold slumped to a five-year low in 2019-20 fiscal which ended recently. Statistics maintained by the Department of Customs (DoC) shows that Nepal imported raw gold worth Rs 13.46 billion in 2019-20, the l...
Backlog of swab samples piling up in Bheri Hospital
Jul 30, 2020
NEPALGUNJ, JULY 29 Four days have passed, since the swab samples of 53 staffers of Internal Revenue Office, Nepalgunj, Banke, were collected. But the reports have not come yet. The office was closed since Sunday after a section officer and a non-gazetted officer tested positive for coronavirus. Many service seekers have returned after reading the n...
Investable resources get frozen in banks amid low credit demand
Jul 1, 2020
KATHMANDU, JUNE 30 Owing to the months-long lockdown which has discouraged the demand for credit, the investable budget with banks is not only increasing but also getting frozen. While banks are witnessing a rise in deposits, their credit flow has come down drastically. As a result, a huge amount of investable financial resource has been lying idle...
Banks to adopt austerity measures as COVID-19 hits businesses
Jun 29, 2020
KATHMANDU, JUNE 28 With their financial position being hit and expected to be hit even harder in the coming months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, banks and financial institutions (BFIs) are falling back on austerity measures including not renewing the agreement of those working on contract basis, reducing allowances of staffs and bringing down the a...
No new COVID-19 cases in Banke’s Narainapur
Jun 23, 2020
Nepalgunj, June 22 Banke’s Narainapur, which had emerged as a COVID-19 hotspot with one death and 118 infections in the initial phase, has been able to contain the viral infection. The rural municipality had witnessed a sudden spike in COVID-19 cases with many Nepali migrant workers returning home from India in April/May following the COVID-...
Rapti begins to swell with the onset of monsoon, flood alerts issued
Jun 21, 2020
NEPALGUNJ: With the arrival of monsoon, Rapti River has started to swell sending signs of danger flying in and around the area. The two days of continuous rainfall led to the rising of river water above the danger level on Saturday evening, exposing various settlements to risk of flooding. Province 5 Chief Minister Shankar Pokhrel and Chief Distric...
