Covid-19

With the notice issued by the District Administration Offices of three districts in Kathmandu Valley on September 9, 2020 (Bhadra 24, 2077) (hereinafter referred to as “Notice”), the ongoing prohibitory order has been extended till the midnight of September 16,2020 (Bhadra 31, 2077), with numerous relaxations in the modality. Considering the financial crisis elevating each day, the authorities...

Government’s “handling” of E-commerce businesses! What is the right way? On August 28, 2020 (Bhadra 11, 2077), Nepal police detained a total of 65 employees and owners of various e-commerce businesses including Foodmario, Urban Bazaar, Dalle, and a few others. Such an abrupt decision of the authority has since garnered wide public attention. In this day and age of modern technology, such...

In the quest of fighting the global pandemic, COVID-19, Government of Nepal has made various decisions regarding lockdown and its modalities at different stages owing to the situation prevalent in different parts of Nepal. Currently, the lockdown has been lifted up but in these four months, government of Nepal handled the COVID-19 situation with the following major decisions:...

Attending the COVID-19 threat, the country has been under lockdown since March 24, 2020. As the virus sweeps across the world, fear, worry and chaos has been passing along with it. Not just the elderly ones and the people with underlying health conditions, but even young and healthy people are stricken by the grief introduced by the coronavirus pandemic. Mental health of people has been...

Domestic Violence Amidst Lockdown The coronavirus outbreak, a global pandemic as declared by the World Health Organization continues to evolve. It has affected all caste, age, group, race residing either in developed or under developed countries. Government of Nepal, along with many other countries around the world has implemented lockdown with travel restrictions, social distancing and...

कानूनी विश्लेषण: होटल एसोशियसन नेपालको ६ महिना कारोबार बन्द गर्ने निर्णय, कर्मचारीलाई आधारभुत तलबको १२.५ प्रतिशत मात्रै दिइने होटल संघ नेपालको २०७७ साल बैशाख २१ गते आइतबार पदाधिकारी, पूर्व अध्यक्षहरु तथा नेपालका ठुला होटलका प्रतिनिधिहरुको उपस्थितिमा बसेको बैठकले होटल व्यवसाय बैशाख १ गतेदेखि आगामी ६ महिनाको लागि बन्द गर्ने निर्णय गरेको छ। विश्व माहामारीको रुपमा फैलिएको कोभिड १९ का कारण...

Legal Analysis:  HAN’s decision to close business for 6 months and pay only 12.5% of the basic salary to employees Hotel Association Nepal (“HAN”) on 21 Baisakh 2077 (3rd May 2020) at the presence of its office bearers, former presidents and representatives of its member hotels including all major hotels like Aloft, Radisson, Marriott, Annapurna, Malla, Shangrila, Himalaya...

NEW RELIEFS ANNOUNCED BY GOVERNMENT OF NEPAL TO COMBAT COVID 19 Highlights: Unemployed daily wage earners working in informal sectors shall be employed in public works and cash or food grains to be provided as daily wage. Period of lockdown declared as public holidays (as long as it continues) and employers including the tourism sector required to pay full salary for the month of Baisakh as...

Latest Notice issued by Nepal Rastra Bank in response to Covid 19 Notice No. 21/076/77 dated 16/01/2076 (28 April 2020) Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) being the central bank of Nepal has its role in effective supervision of banking and financial system. The situation of lockdown caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic has raised serious concern over the national as well as global economy and...

Covid 19 Business Continuity: Corporate Governance in the time of crisis It has been just over a month now since the regular businesses have been disrupted by the government imposed lockdown to fight the spread of Covid 19. In these tough and uncalled times (though not unprecedented: we have been through harsher lockdowns, strikes and curfews, natural disasters, the 2015 devastating earthquake...