Nepali and Bangladeshi candidates vie for regional UN post, pitting experience vs expedience
Health for All demands not just commitment but action from every person, everywhere
Frontline workers waiting for their booster dose at a hospital in Kathmandu last week. Photos: AMIT MACHAMASIAs elsewhere in the world, the…
MosquirixThe endorsement on Wednesday in Geneva by the World Health Organisation (WHO) of the new malaria vaccine Mosquirix has been described…
Photo: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEKathmandu’s air quality has just got considerably worse, not just because of dirtier air, but because the World…
We must not go for third doses when so much of the world has not even got its first Covid-19 vaccine shot
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThe death of five children by drowning last month in Dhanusha made headlines. A week later, two boys drowned in a pit left…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThe past year-and-half since the Covid-19 outbreak, Nepal’s limited health resources all had a singular focus. But now that…
A group of European, Nepali and Bhutanese personalities have sent an open letter to the European Commission, asking it to allow member states to…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALASouth and southeast Asian countries have in recent months witnessed a sharp and sustained surge of SARS-CoV2 infection. For…
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe flood of social media posts of donated medical supplies being unloaded at Kathmandu airport every day, gives the…
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASI1. Oxygen To save lives, Nepal’s most urgent need now is oxygen. Not just cylinders, but oxygen generators, concentrators…
Photo: UNICEF NEPAL / L P NgakhusiIn a landmark initiative, the world’s 10 leading airlines have joined UNICEF in its Humanitarian Airfreight…
Nepal took delivery of one million doses of Covishield vaccine ordered from the Serum Institute of India, on Sunday. Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIAmidst…
The first frontline health workers being inoculated with Covishield last week in Kathmandu from the 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine…
The introduction of vaccines against the coronavirus have been described as the light at the end of the tunnel. But for most of the poorest…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAWith the pre-winter resurgence of Covid-19 around the world and in Nepal, pressure is mounting on governments to procure…
Nepal Army special funeral team brings home the first fatality from Covid-19 in Bhojpur District. She was a 24-year-old woman. The government's…
Photo: BIKRAM RAIThe regional office of the World Health Organization (WHO) based in New Delhi has cautioned against any relaxation of response…
On Tuesday news broke about an agreement between the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Nepal’s Trinity Pharmaceuticals to import 25…
Photo: OM ASTHA RAI/NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEThe world recorded an all-time low under-five deaths in 2019, but the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in…
Photo: GOPEN RAIOn Friday, it will be four months since Nepal closed the country down to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus strain that…
Trump exits the World Health Organisation, but the global order survives
