June 29, 2026 07:42 pm (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
India overtakes Taiwan, South Korea to become world's fifth-largest equity market again | Pakistan strikes terror hideouts near Afghan border after Karachi bloodshed, 29 killed | Israel strikes back: Top October 7 militant “eliminated” in precision operation | Radharaman Das, who defended Bengal's vegetarian mid-day meal plan, loses ISKCON post | Fresh paper leak rocks India: Maharashtra TET postponed a day before exam, over 4 lakh aspirants affected | Pune fort murder case: Siya Goyal's brother says family would have called off marriage if she had objected | Donald Trump gets a road named after him in India, says 'Thank You!' | Fresh setback for Gautam Adani? US judge asks DoJ to justify dropping criminal charges | Ram Mandir Trust chief Champat Rai resigns as alleged donation siphoning row escalates | Ram Mandir fund row deepens: 8 arrested days after BJP called allegations 'false narrative'
Nepal COVID19 Drive
UNI

Covid-19 vaccination drive starts in Nepal

| @indiablooms | Jan 29, 2021, at 04:52 am

Kathmandu: Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on Wednesday inaugurated the Covid-19 vaccination drive in Nepal from his official residence.

As per the 'Himalayan Times', more than 400,000 frontline Covid-19 warriors, including health and sanitation workers, will be the first to receive the vaccines during the first phase of the campaign.

Nepal would be administering the India manufactured Covishield, which is the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured in India by the Serum Institute of India.

India had sent one million doses of Covishield to its neighbour as aid.

(With UNI inputs)

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.