OPINION
Assessing privacy law
Assessing privacy law
The expanding growth of information technology with its ability to gather, analyze and disseminate data has raised the sense of urgency for enactment of laws on privacy in many countries. The parliament of Nepal enacted Individual’s Right to Privacy Act (2018) to implement Article 28 of the Constit...
Jan 26, 2020
OPINION
Unrest in France
Unrest in France
France has been facing transport strikes for one and a half months against the government, which is trying to reform its pension system. President Immanuel Macron wants to replace the current system of 42 pension regimes with a single point scheme that will be the same for everybody. It has caused a...
Jan 26, 2020
OPINION
Why AI Will Not Abolish Work
Why AI Will Not Abolish Work
VIENNA – The diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI) across the economy has raised the possibility—and for many, the fear—that machines will eventually replace human work. They will not only perform an ever-larger share of mechanical operations, as we have been observing since the first Industrial...
Jan 26, 2020
SPORTS, Latest Updates
Army held by NRT as title race goes down to the wire
Army held by NRT as title race goes down to the wire
KATHMANDU, Jan 26: Leader Tribhuvan Army Club could not put its inconsistency aside as it failed to go three points clear at the top ahead of Machhindra Club and Manang Marshyangdi Club as it was held to a 0-0 draw by New Road Team in the ongoing Martyr’s Memorial A-Division League in Kathmandu on S...
Jan 26, 2020
OPINION
Jobs are changing
Jobs are changing
Last year, I met my friend who was working in a bank. Some months back, I met him again at a party and asked him whether he was working in the same bank. He said that he had already left that bank and was now working as the manager of another bank. “One cannot make a professional growth working in t...
Jan 26, 2020
WORLD
Heavy rains dampen fires in Australia's Queensland state, cause flooding
Heavy rains dampen fires in Australia's Queensland state, ca...
MELBOURNE, Jan 26: Australia’s bushfire-stricken state of Queensland saw heavy rainfalls on Sunday dampening some of the fires that have razed 2.5 million hectares (1.2 million acres) of land since September, but the wet weather caused major flooding.
Jan 26, 2020
WORLD
Hong Kong Disneyland and Ocean Park to be closed from Sunday to help prevent spread of vir...
Hong Kong Disneyland and Ocean Park to be closed from Sunday...
SHANGHAI, Jan 26: Hong Kong’s popular amusement parks Disneyland and Ocean Park are closed from Jan. 26 to help prevent the spread of a deadly coronavirus that broke out in the Chinese city Wuhan, state media CCTV reported on Sunday.
Jan 26, 2020
WORLD
More than 2,000 now infected with coronavirus; 56 dead in China
More than 2,000 now infected with coronavirus; 56 dead in Ch...
SHANGHAI, Jan 26: More than 2,000 people globally have been infected with a new coronavirus, the vast majority of them in China, where 56 people have died from the disease, according to figures released on Sunday.
Jan 26, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Unheard stories about the 'banner guy'
Unheard stories about the 'banner guy'
KATHMANDU, Jan 26: An elderly person of average height, with face covered with long and grey beard and clad with traditional Bhandgaunle topi and wearing white shirt bearing Nepal's national flag and self-written slogans is often seen wandering in down-town Kathmandu.
Jan 26, 2020
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
After both kidney failure, Nepali migrant worker returns from Malaysia
After both kidney failure, Nepali migrant worker returns fro...
ROLPA, Jan 26: Twenty–two years old Resham Kuwar of Bajbisauna village of Rolpa district has returned from Malaysia following failure of both his kidneys. He had taken a loan of Rs 130,000 from money lenders to make it to Malaysia two and a half years ago. The kidney problem surfaced six months aft...
Jan 26, 2020