SOCIETY
Overflow of blocked Badigad River offers respite to locals
Overflow of blocked Badigad River offers respite to locals
BAGLUNG, Sept 16: Chuda Bahadur Kumal of Dhorpatan Municipality-2 had a sleepless night on Friday. A massive landslide, which struck Turture of Badigad-7, Bhimgithe, forced locals to rush for their lives in the middle of the night. A huge mass of earth which fell from some 500 meters above blocked t...
Sep 16, 2018
SOCIETY
Nepali migrant workers in Saudi Arabia running out of food stock
Nepali migrant workers in Saudi Arabia running out of food s...
KATHMANDU, Sept 16: Sixteen Nepali migrant workers are running out of food stock in Saudi Arabia after the company they were working for stopped providing them salary. They ran into trouble after an altercation with the manager of the company, who is an Egyptian national.
Sep 16, 2018
SOCIETY
Rautes seek details of expenditure
Rautes seek details of expenditure
DAILEKH, Sept 16: After learning about the immense irregularities conducted in the name of Raute Welfare Fund, people of this indigenous tribe have started acting cleverly. They have begun seeking details of expenditure with various government authorities responsible for distributing the fund.
Sep 16, 2018
Editorial
Local representatives: Focus on your job
Local representatives: Focus on your job
Under the federal system, all the state agencies have to work in a new structure and change the working modality of the civil servants, formulate all the necessary laws and arrange resources to the highly-expensive governing system. The federal system will be paralyzed if the systems within it are n...
Sep 16, 2018
OPINION
Together we should care
Together we should care
I struggle to come to terms with some aspects of culture—the culture where while some trailblazer women are fighting for their right to light the funeral pyre of their deceased parents, others are still using excuses to avoid helping their frail and financially dependent parents and the culture wher...
Sep 16, 2018
OPINION
No more crawling
No more crawling
Departments under Tribhuvan University are often chided for their inability to spur academic environment. But the separated Central Departments of Sociology and Anthropology seem to be doing otherwise. Just last week Central Department of Anthropology (CDA) organized its annual Dor Bahadur Bista mem...
Sep 16, 2018
Interview
Economic diplomacy is a key to enhancing Nepal-India relations
Economic diplomacy is a key to enhancing Nepal-India relatio...
Gopal Krishna Agrawal is the National Spokesperson on Economic Affairs for ruling Bharatiya Janata Party of India. How does he see Nepal-India economic relations? How can this relations be enhanced? Mahabir Paudyal and Kosh Raj Koirala spoke to him on Nepal-India economic ties and other aspects of b...
Sep 16, 2018
OPINION
Who creates value in economy?
Who creates value in economy?
LONDON – After the 2008 global financial crisis, a consensus emerged that the public sector had a responsibility to intervene to bail out systemically important banks and stimulate economic growth. But that consensus proved short-lived, and soon the public sector’s economic interventions came to be...
Sep 16, 2018
SOCIETY
Two dead, many injured in Sarlahi bus accident
Two dead, many injured in Sarlahi bus accident
SARLAHI, Sept. 15: At least two persons were killed while 23 persons were injured this evening after a bus met with an accident in Brahmapuri Rural Municipality, Sarlahi.
Sep 15, 2018
SPORTS
Maldives wins 12th SAFF Championship
Maldives wins 12th SAFF Championship
KATHMANDU, Sept 15: The Maldives on Saturday defeated India 2-1, lifting the title of the 12th SAFF Championship (second time) held in the Bangabandhu National Stadium in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Sep 15, 2018