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Nepal Health Minister Hridayesh Tripathi on Monday said that the country is planning to purchase an additional 2 million doses of vaccine from India ahead of its second phase of Covid-19 vaccination drive starting March 7 for people aged above 55 years.
As per Health Ministry officials, around 14,000 vaccinators, including the mobile teams, will be mobilised to vaccinate the largest chunk of the population. All people in this age group have been placed in the second priority group, they added.
While addressing the media on Sunday, Tripathi said that people s trust in the vaccines is increasing and the rule of priority is strictly followed in inoculation.
The sixth meeting of the India-Nepal Joint Commission, co-chaired by Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and his Nepalese counterpart Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, was held on 15 January 2021 in New Delhi. As the Nepalese delegation, comprising the Foreign Minister, Foreign Secretary Bharat Raj Paudyal and other senior officials visited India, the world kept a keen eye on the probable developments, after the cold demeanour of the recent past over the border row.
As mentioned by the spokesman for India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Anurag Arivastava, the primary vision of this meeting lay in having constructive discussions on the bilateral relationship between the two countries, that has indeed been taking the test of time and implement constructive measures for the future.
Sohini Nayak
The sixth meeting of the India-Nepal Joint Commission, co-chaired by Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and his Nepalese counterpart Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, was held on 15 January 2021 in New Delhi. As the Nepalese delegation, comprising the Foreign Minister, Foreign Secretary Bharat Raj Paudyal and other senior officials visited India, the world kept a keen eye on the probable developments, after the cold demeanour of the recent past over the border row.
As mentioned by the spokesman for India’s Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Anurag Arivastava, the primary vision of this meeting lay in having constructive discussions on the bilateral relationship between the two countries, that has indeed been taking the test of time and implement constructive measures for the future.
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New Delhi: On 31 July 1950, India and Nepal signed a treaty of peace and friendship in an effort to “strengthen and develop these ties and to perpetuate peace between the two countries”. Over seven decades later, clamour is now growing louder in Nepal to “revise” the pact to reflect “new changes and realities”.
Uniting Nepalâs ruling party is âimpossibleâ, Chinaâs effort is a failed attempt
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New Delhi: The Chinese have once again sprung into action in Kathmandu to unite the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) even as the latter believes that this time the attempts made by Beijing are a âfailed attemptâ and uniting the two factions is “impossible”, ThePrint has learnt.Â