ECONOMY, SPECIAL
Where does gold come from?
Where does gold come from?
KATHMANDU, Aug 22: With the festive season around the bend, customers are buying gold ornaments to make the celebration more special. But the gold that they buy could have entered the country through illegal routes.
Aug 22, 2016
Lifestyle
Radhika Apte’s lovemaking scene from ‘Parched’ goes viral
Radhika Apte’s lovemaking scene from ‘Parched’ goes viral
MUMBAI, Aug 20: Bollywood actress Radhika Apte’s work has leaked online and is creating havoc.
Aug 22, 2016
ECONOMY
Sebon tells DPs to open demat account in 3 days
Sebon tells DPs to open demat account in 3 days
KATHMANDU, Aug 22: Securities Board of Nepal (Sebon) has issued a nine-point instruction to all depository participants (DPs) and share registrars to expedite and simplify services related to dematerialization of shares.
Aug 22, 2016
POLITICS
House gets no business with delay in cabinet expansion
House gets no business with delay in cabinet expansion
KATHMANDU, Aug 22: At a time when the parliament should have been expediting the endorsement of new bills for the implementation of the new constitution, House meeting on Sunday was adjourned for a week due to lack of business from the government.
Aug 22, 2016
POLITICS
7 accused in PADT graft case acquitted
7 accused in PADT graft case acquitted
KATHMANDU, Aug 22: Special Court on Sunday acquitted seven individuals, who were charged with irregularities by the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) in sand excavation on the land owned by the Pashupati Area Development Trust (PADT).
Aug 22, 2016
SOCIETY
Disaster-hit wary of attending classes
Disaster-hit wary of attending classes
PYUTHAN, Aug 22: Although most of the schools in Pyuthan district reopened in mid-August after the end of monsoon vacation, classes have not resumed properly in lack of students. Children from villages hit by floods and landslides are still reluctant to go to school.
Aug 22, 2016
SOCIETY
EDCD weighs vaccination against cholera
EDCD weighs vaccination against cholera
KATHMANDU, Aug 22: Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (EDCD) of the Department of Health Services (DoHS) has said that it is considering administering cholera vaccine to the people living in the highly affected areas of Lalitpur, where the deadly disease has been spreading for the last one mo...
Aug 22, 2016
OPINION
Allures of respectability
Allures of respectability
Ambedkar’s call to “educate, agitate and organize” is applicable for all dominated groups everywhere
Aug 22, 2016
OPINION
Treatable Scrub
Treatable Scrub
We should not panic over the current Scrub typhus outbreak as
deaths from this disease can be prevented with simple drugs
Aug 22, 2016
SOCIETY
Monitoring of public schools mired in formalities
Monitoring of public schools mired in formalities
KATHMANDU, Aug 21: The government's efforts to uplift the quality of education at public schools through monitoring remain hamstrung by needless formalities.
Aug 22, 2016