SOCIETY
Garbage collection begins in Lahan
Garbage collection begins in Lahan
LAHAN, Aug 12: Lahan Municipality finally started to collect garbage from near the highway after over three weeks. The municipality acted only after the unmanaged waste threatened the outbreak of an epidemic in the region.
Aug 12, 2018
SOCIETY
Freed Haliyas claim leaders and gov officials extorted portion of their rehabilitation fun...
Freed Haliyas claim leaders and gov officials extorted porti...
DADELDHURA, Aug 12: Government officials and Haliya leaders in Dadeldhura district have allegedly pocketed most of the funds released for the rehabilitation of the freed Haliyas or indentured farmers. The Haliyas are former bonded laborers who worked as farmhands for landlords.
Aug 12, 2018
SOCIETY
Dozens of settlements at high risk of landslides
Dozens of settlements at high risk of landslides
BAJURA, Aug 12: Two weeks ago, Man Bahadur Rawat and his family left their home at Gumlagaun and started living under a tarpaulin tent in Daune Chaur. The family of Chededaha Rural Municipality-7, Bajura district, was forced to relocate after landslides continuously occurred in their village.
Aug 12, 2018
SOCIETY
Proxy examinee arrested
Proxy examinee arrested
DHADING, Aug 12: Dhading Police on Saturday held a person on the charge of appearing in the grade-upgrading exam of Secondary Education Examination (SEE) on behalf of another student.
Aug 12, 2018
SOCIETY
28 households of Hungi at risk of displacement due to haphazard road construction
28 households of Hungi at risk of displacement due to haphaz...
PALPA, Aug 12: A new track opened in mid-July without considering the environmental impact has posed serious problems for 28 households of Hungi, Rambha Rural Municipality-1.
Aug 12, 2018
Editorial
Local govts failing on education
Local govts failing on education
One of the reasons the local governments were endowed with sweeping powers in matters of health, education and infrastructure development, among others, was the belief that they know the local realities better than other institutions and they would be able to handle these basic ser-vices more reliab...
Aug 12, 2018
OPINION
Reinvigorating BIMSTEC
Reinvigorating BIMSTEC
BIMSTEC should adopt a charter. It will increase predictability, institutionalization, and legitimacy of the regional organization
Aug 12, 2018
OPINION
Conversion disorder
Conversion disorder
In spite of its recurrent occurrence, cases of conversion disorder do not get reported unless the mass gets affected
Aug 12, 2018
OPINION
Elusive road to justice
Elusive road to justice
Political commitment to justice process is the only way out to looming transition of transitional justice process in Nepal
Aug 12, 2018
OPINION
Quantitative easing turns ten
Quantitative easing turns ten
Are independent central banks willing to force society to sacrifice growth for financial stability?
Aug 12, 2018