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India News | Motihari Police Announces Rs 50,000 Reward for Information on Entry of Three Suspected Pakistani Nationals from Nepal Border
Latestly
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August 28, 2025
Motihari (Bihar) [India], August 28 (ANI): Following the intelligence report about a possible entry of three suspected Pakistani nationals in Bihar from the Nepal border, the border areas and districts of Bihar are put on high alert. The Motihari...
Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices Toward Hypotension During Hemodialysis Among Nephrology and Hemodialysis Medical Staff: A Multi-Center Cross-Sectional Study
Dove Medical Press
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August 28, 2025
Introduction The prevalence of hemodialysis patients in China has seen a substantial increase, rising from 174.1 per million population (PMP) in 2011 to 379.1 PMP in 2017.1 In 2021, over 540,000 patients in the United States underwent maintenance...
Child Labour and the Care Economy: Nepal’s Overlooked Development Challenge
New Spotlight Nepal
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During the International Youth Forum at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok in August, I represented Nepal alongside delegates from 61 countries. I shared Nepal’s experiences and insights with international delegates, raising a...
Nepal Tech Market launches smart waste management system
Khabarhub
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August 27, 2025
KATHMANDU: Nepal Tech Market has unveiled a new waste management system that aims to bring a technological breakthrough in how garbage is collected and managed across the country. According to Chief Technology Officer Mangal Pradhan, the system...
South and SEA countries partner to strengthen health research systems
Healthcare Asia
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August 28, 2025
Key priority areas include joint efforts in medical technology innovation and ethics. Representatives from Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Timor-Leste, and India convened at Sushma Swaraj Bhawan in New Delhi to strengthen health research systems. In a...
4 dead in traffic accident in Nepal
Xinhua News Agency
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KATHMANDU, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Four people were killed and six others injured on Thursday morning after a sport utility vehicle fell off the road in Nepal, local police said. The vehicle carrying 10 people in total fell 250 meters off a cliff in...
Laia running Sydney marathon to save lives in Nepal from drowning
Nepal News
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LONDON:Laia Coma, a professional swimmer, is running the Sydney Marathon on 31st August 2025 to raise public awareness against drowning and support activities aimed at reducing deaths and injuries due to drowning in Nepal. Laia, a passionate...
Willingness of Urban Formal Sector Workers to Support a Community-Based Health Insurance Scheme in Ethiopia
Dove Medical Press
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August 28, 2025
Introduction In the past two decades, Ethiopia has made considerable progress in expanding health infrastructure and reducing child and maternal mortality rates. For instance, primary healthcare service coverage, as measured by access to a...
What Nepal can learn from the Philippines’ labour migration system
OnlineKhabar
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August 28, 2025
Victoria Acquino de Jesus Globally, the system of managing migrant workers, especially domestic workers, in the Philippines is regarded as exemplary. Out of the country’s population of over 116.9 million, around 10 million Filipinos are employed...
World News | Nepal: Birgunj Cholera Outbreak Kills 3, over 300 Hospitalized
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August 28, 2025
Birgunj [Nepal], August 28 (ANI): The Parsa district of Nepal bordering India has seen an upsurge in cases of cholera in the past week, which till now have left three dead with over one hundred hospitalized, with some in critical condition. The...
Warning: breathing is hazardous to health
Nepali Times
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August 28, 2025
An average Nepali could live 3.3 years longer if air pollution is reduced to meet the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline, according the annual Air Quality Life Index 2025 published this week. The annual average concentration of tiny...
Safeguarding Nepal’s digital future
The Kathmandu Post
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While Nepal’s digital infrastructure has expanded immensely over the last decade, its capacity to defend itself against the rising wave of cyber threats has not kept pace. This asymmetry has left the country vulnerable to attacks that can...
Top 9 things to do in Kathmandu
Lonely Planet
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Always stimulating, often chaotic and sometimes sublime, Kathmandu is at its core a medieval city of temples and shrines that has morphed into Nepal’s largest and busiest city. Everyone traveling to Nepal visits Kathmandu. It’s the arrival point...
Nepal, India to sign agreement for 300-bed hospital during PM Oli’s visit
Nepal News
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TANAHUN: Minister for Health and Population Pradeep Poudel has said that an agreement will be signed during Prime Minister Oli’s upcoming visit to India for the construction of a 300-bed hospital building at the GP Koirala Respiratory Treatment...
Scrub typhus cases spike in Kathmandu
The Kathmandu Post
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Of the 23 fever patients tested at Sukraraj Tropical and Infectious Disease Hospital on Tuesday, 10 or 44 percent were diagnosed with scrub typhus. Doctors at the hospital termed the positivity rate alarmingly high. And what concerns them more is...
Hospital discharges increase amid cholera and diarrhea cases in Birgunj
OnlineKhabar
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August 26, 2025
Currently, 220 patients with diarrhea and cholera are still undergoing treatment in various hospitals. Kathmandu, August 26 An increasing number of patients are recovering and being discharged from hospitals in cholera- and diarrhea-affected...
World News | Nepal PM Oli to Attend SCO Summit in China, to Meet PM Modi on Sidelines
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August 27, 2025
Kathmandu [Nepal], August 27 (ANI): Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli will embark on a five-day visit to China on August 30 to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit 2025, the Nepalese Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on...
Kathmandu Marathon 2025 set for November 1
Khabarhub
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August 26, 2025
KATHMANDU: The much-anticipated Kathmandu Marathon 2025 is scheduled to take place on November 1 with the theme “Run for Heritage, Run for Health.” Organized by NRS Sports Foundation, the annual marathon aims to bring together people from all...
CM Karki and Israeli Ambassador to Nepal meet
Enewspolar
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August 27, 2025
Morang, Aug 27: Koshi Province’s Chief Minister Hikmat Kumar Karki and Israel’s Ambassador to Nepal Shmulik Arie Bass have held a meeting today. In the meeting held at the Office of the Chief Minister and Council of Ministers at Biratnagar,...
Knowledge, Attitude, and Practice of Medical Students Toward Prehospital Emergency Care: A Cross-Sectional Study
Dove Medical Press
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August 27, 2025
Introduction Prehospital emergency care, such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), airway obstruction relief, bleeding control, and basic life support (BLS), as the initial response to acute illness or injury, aims to save lives, alleviate...