POLITICS
Nepal claims senior positions of UN peacekeeping missions
Nepal claims senior positions of UN peacekeeping missions
KATHMANDU, March 31: Nepal has claimed senior leadership positions both at the United Nations headquarters and in the field missions in course of mobilizing peace keeping missions.
Mar 31, 2019
SOCIETY
VIP escort van knocks down scooter
VIP escort van knocks down scooter
KATHMANDU, March 31: Video footage showing a security escort vehicle belonging to the Armed Police Force rear-ending a scooter and causing injury went viral on various social media Saturday.
Mar 31, 2019
SOCIETY
Activists hit the streets demanding life imprisonment for Sunita's husband
Activists hit the streets demanding life imprisonment for Su...
BIRGUNJ, March 31: Rights activists on Saturday took out a march from Ghantaghar of Birgunj to protest the killing of Sunita Yadav who succumbed to injuries on Friday after being brutally beaten by her doctor husband.
Mar 31, 2019
SOCIETY
NRA to mobilize 550 engineers to survey 'left out' quake-hit houses
NRA to mobilize 550 engineers to survey 'left out' quake-hit...
KATHMANDU, March 31: The National Reconstruction Authority (NRA) has started deploying engineers - a total of 550 of them- for the inspection and resurvey of the houses whose owners have filed complaints of being affected by the 2015 mega earthquakes but who were not listed as beneficiaries of the p...
Mar 31, 2019
Editorial
Follow on MoUs, commitments
Follow on MoUs, commitments
Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli made all the right noises about Nepal’s need for foreign investment on the opening ceremony of Investment Summit on Friday. He presented the case of Nepal confidently, exuberating enthusiasm while addressing the delegates and the investors. The prime minister told the i...
Mar 31, 2019
OPINION
Democracy’s discontents
Democracy’s discontents
Dichotomy dictates Nepal’s democracy. The mainstream news media is dominated by journalists, who hold an unwavering faith in democracy. However, a large majority of opinionators, freelancers, and wordsmiths hail from political ideologies that are hostile to democracy. The national narratives and pol...
Mar 31, 2019
OPINION
Europe must unite on China
Europe must unite on China
BRUSSELS – When seeking investment capital and seemingly lucrative commercial deals, EU member-state governments do not always consider shared European interests. This has especially been the case with respect to China. Yet member states that pursue a relationship with China unilaterally endanger bo...
Mar 31, 2019
OPINION
Give job, more than law
Give job, more than law
“A man willing to work, and unable to find a work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun,” says Thomas Carlyle, a British historian and novelist.
Mar 31, 2019
OPINION
Teaching with computers
Teaching with computers
Out of more than 4, 00,000 students appearing for SEE examinations this year, there will be thousands who will be appearing their Computer Science paper. Out of these thousands, there will be a significant sizeable population who will be appearing the subject without having used or even seen compute...
Mar 31, 2019
Infographic
Infographics : No Consensus for Brexit alternatives
Infographics : No Consensus for Brexit alternatives
On March 27, MPs were given the chance to vote on eight alternatives to May's negotiated deal with the EU and 'take back control' of the Brexit process. Underlining the deep divisions and current disarray in the House of Commons, they failed completely to grab any of the initiative which had been da...
Mar 31, 2019