Secretary at the Ministry of Health and Population Dr Roshan Pokharel has said the role of three tiers of government was crucial to control dengue.
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May 28, 2021
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Foreign Affairs Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali during a press meet, in Kathmandu, on Sunday, December 6, 2020.
Kathmandu, May 28
Foreign Affairs Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali says Nepal has hoped for a breakthrough in Covid-19 vaccine import in the next 15 days. Gyawali claims the government has launched different initiatives to import the vaccines and received some positive responses also.
Speaking in a virtual meeting hosted by the Health Journalist Forum on Friday, Gyawali said some countries had assured the government that they would announce assistance to Nepal soon. He was hopeful that the country would vaccinate all citizens qualified for the jab by the end of 2021.
Killings, attacks and intimidation: Journalism under fire across borders
Illustration: Noor Us Safa Anik
For the first time, media organisations in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Nepal are coming together to report about the killings, attacks, harassment, and intimidation of journalists in these South Asian countries. It is the first such collaboration by media outlets in the region.
By Nirmal Jovial
On the evening of August 8, 2020, ten women from Subhash Mohalla in North East Delhi proceeded to the Bhajanpura police station to make the police register a first information report on a complaint they had made two days before. The complaint was that some men had tried to foment communal tension in their locality. The complainants said the men had abused Muslims, tied saffron flags near a mosque and burst crackers in celebration of a ceremony for the construction of a temple at faraway Ayodhya on August 5.