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UNSC must act decisively to control COVID-19 pandemic: WFM-IGP

THE HAGUE – The U.N. Security Council must take decisive action to address the causes and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, said the World Federalist Movement – Institute for Global Policy (WFM-IGP) April 8, 2020.. Almost five months after the first reports of the novel coronavirus were reported in China’s Wuhan Province and three weeks […]

COVID-19 Crisis in Nepal: Resiliency, Solidarity and Action

KATHMANDU- It is now confirmed that no disease outbreak in the world’s history has traveled as far and as rapidly as COVID-19. When the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the crisis as a pandemic on March 11th, there were about one hundred thousand reported cases of infection and in less than a month by April […]

Nepal: Greater support needed for working families as COVID-19 takes hold, says UNICEF, ILO and UN Women

NEW YORK/KATHMANDU, 1 April 2020 – As the COVID-19 pandemic continues its exponential growth, “it is essential to support working families to minimize negative consequences for children, UNICEF, ILO and UN Women said today. Job loss, school closures, and unavailability of childcare mean that families, especially those in low-income households, need extra support”. “The fallout […]

Nepal: India-Pakistan meet in Delhi may give peace a chance!

N.P. Upadhyaya, Kathmandu: The Indian Prime Minister Modi is likely to greet his “near to adversary” Pakistani friend, Prime Minister Imran Khan in New Delhi later this year. Relations between the two South Asian nations have never been cordial since the days of partition, 1947. However, the special session of the Sanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) […]

Nepal: Apex Court Orders Govt. to submit historic documents

Biratnagar: Nepal’s Communist Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and his entire team has been pushed to the wall by Nepal’s Apex Court Wednesday January 1/2020. The Apex court decision must have jolted the ailing Prime Minister from within as he apparently felt that since he is the Chief executive of the country and thus no […]