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Tourism Ministry preparing for post-pandemic tourism promotion in Nepal

Sep 1, 2020

KATHMANDU, AUGUST 31 Aiming at post-pandemic tourism promotional activities, the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA) has started infrastructure development project. A meeting held today at the ministry has directed Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) to study the probability of building tourism infrastructure surrounding Kathmandu valley...

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COVID impact on religious tourism in Nepal overlooked

Sep 1, 2020

KATHMANDU, AUGUST 31 Along with adventure, culture and nature, Nepal is also known as a religious destination for tourists. Among other sectors, religious tourism sector of the country has also been adversely affected due to the coronavirus pandemic. As the country was celebrating Visit Nepal 2020 campaign, the government and private sector, among ...

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Worldwide coronavirus cases cross 25.28 million, death toll over 845,500

Aug 31, 2020

At least 25,280,634 people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 845,850 people have died, a Reuters tally showed. Girls wearing protective face masks wait to pray inside temple premises on the occasion of the annual harvest festival of Onam, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on the outskirts...

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What you need to know about the coronavirus right now

Aug 31, 2020

Global records India reported 78,512 new novel coronavirus infections on Monday, slightly fewer than its record set the previous day when it posted the biggest, single-day tally of infections of any country in the pandemic. On Sunday, India’s total of 78,761 new cases exceeded the previous record of 77,299 in the United States on ...

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Dharan’s ward-17 sealed with high number of infections reported in the area

Aug 30, 2020

DHARAN: Dharan sub-metropolitan city’s Ward-17 has been sealed upon rise in the number of Covid-19 cases in the area. Two people from the ward had succumbed to coronavirus infection while undergoing treatment at the Dharan-based BPKHIS, on Sunday. A 74-year-old woman and a male (60) died this morning with which the Covid-19 death toll in t...

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Worldwide coronavirus cases cross 24.61 million, death toll over 832,500

Aug 29, 2020

At least 24,612,789 people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 832,804 people have died, a Reuters tally showed. People wear protective masks as they walk past a US Postal Service blue collection box on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, on August 13, 2020. Photo: Reuters Infections have been reported in more than 2...

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Health experts decry Trump’s shunning of virus rules

Aug 29, 2020

WASHINGTON: Public health experts expressed concern Friday about President Donald Trump’s largely mask-free, socially un-distanced Republican convention event on the White House lawn, saying some of his 1,500 guests may have inadvertently brought and spread the coronavirus to others. “There almost certainly were individuals there who we...

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Nexus between economic crisis and reforms

Aug 27, 2020

In economics and political sciences, a large body of literature is devoted to understanding the relationship between economic crisis and reforms. It has been well documented that a period of reforms generally follows a period of crisis. Such a phenomenon has been appropriately termed as the “crisis hypothesis”. Reforms here can mean a v...

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Global tourism lost $320bn in five months from virus: UN

Aug 26, 2020

UNITED NATIONS, AUGUST 25 The tourism global industry has been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic, with $320 billion lost in exports in the first five months of the year and more than 120 million jobs at risk, the UN chief said today. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a policy briefing and video address that tourism is the third-larges...

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‘COVID-19 affects mental health of journalists’

Aug 22, 2020

KATHMANDU, AUGUST 21 The findings of a national survey undertaken by Nepal Press Institute and Bournemouth University of the United Kingdom paint a gloomy picture of working journalists, hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the report titled ‘Impact of COVID-19 on Journalism in Nepal’, released by Minister of Communication a...

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