SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Asia-Pacific mayors vow to work for sustainable, resilient cities
Asia-Pacific mayors vow to work for sustainable, resilient c...
KATHMANDU, Nov 7: Mayors of over a dozen metropolitan cities of the Asia Pacific region have vowed to work together in the field of sustainable urban development. They made a pledge to work together to establish more sustainable and resilient cities during the International Seminar on Heritage and S...
Nov 07, 2019
POLITICS, Latest Updates
NC finalizes candidates for by elections
NC finalizes candidates for by elections
KATHMANDU Nov 7: Main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) has finalized its candidates for a parliamentary seat and three provincial assembly seats for the upcoming by-polls amid disgruntlement within the party on Wednesday.
Nov 07, 2019
My City, Entertainment
Acclaimed novelist Ernest Gaines dies at 86
Acclaimed novelist Ernest Gaines dies at 86
Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation germinated stories of black struggles that grew into universal tales of grace and beauty, has died. He was 86.
Nov 07, 2019
My City, Gen-Next, Slammed
Daughter's wish
Daughter's wish
Because you are there for me
I am happy.
If you weren't with me, there would
Always be darkness in my life
You are the light of my life.
Nov 07, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
10 schools in Doti get safe infrastructures
10 schools in Doti get safe infrastructures
DOTI, Nov 7: Doti was among the moderately affected districts by the massive earthquake of April 2015. However it served as a wakeup call many including Arjun Khadka, principal of Mahakali Secondary School of Sayal Rural Municipality – 6.
Nov 07, 2019
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Nicola Pollit is new UK envoy
Nicola Pollit is new UK envoy
KATHMANDU, Nov 7: Nicola Kathryn Pollit is succeeding Richard Morris as UK ambassador to Nepal. The newly-appointed UK ambassador Pollit will take over the responsibility within this month.
Nov 07, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Ex-Gurkhas to mount int’l campaign for pay parity, compensation
Ex-Gurkhas to mount int’l campaign for pay parity, compensat...
KATHMANDU, Nov 7: The agitating British Gurkha ex-servicemen have announced to launch an international human rights campaign if the British government does not take any initiatives to address their grievances related to pension parity and compensation for the injustice meted out to them.
Nov 07, 2019
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Unilateral move to alter border demarcation not acceptable: Nepal
Unilateral move to alter border demarcation not acceptable:...
KATHMANDU, Nov 7: Nepal has said that any unilateral decision to change border demarcations would not be acceptable after a new political map released by the Indian government last week continued to include Kalapani and Lipu Lekh – at the tri-junction point between Nepal, India and China – in Indian...
Nov 07, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Communicable disease a real hazard for jail inmates: Home ministry report
Communicable disease a real hazard for jail inmates: Home mi...
KATHMANDU, Nov 7: With prisons across the country seeing a steady rise in the number of inmates, communicable diseases have emerged as a serious health hazard for them. Prison authorities are compelled to incarcerate both inmates of sound health and those suffering from communicable diseases in the...
Nov 07, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Finding your license a matter of luck
Finding your license a matter of luck
KATHMANDU, Nov 7: It’s been a ritual for Manoj Waiba to visit the Department of Transport Management (DoTM) branch since he filed an application for renewal of his driving license two years ago. Every time he visits the DoTM’s Sukedhara branch, he is given bundles of cards and is asked to search thr...
Nov 07, 2019