ECONOMY, Latest Updates
DoFTQC upgrading lab to facilitate exporters
DoFTQC upgrading lab to facilitate exporters
KATHMANDU, Dec 16: The Department of Food Technology and Quality Control (DoFTQC) has begun upgrading its laboratory to provide internationally accepted quality certification on additional 75 parameters to facilitate exports of edible commodities.
Dec 16, 2019
ECONOMY
Nepse snaps 8-day winning run, ends 5 points lower
Nepse snaps 8-day winning run, ends 5 points lower
KATHMANDU: Trading began on the Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) on a positive note on Sunday. The benchmark Nepse index got off to a flying start gaining more than 9 points over the first hour. After dropping to its opening level at midday, another surge followed pushing the index to its intraday high.
Dec 16, 2019
WORLD
Dozens injured as activists clash with Delhi police in citizenship law protests
Dozens injured as activists clash with Delhi police in citiz...
NEW DELHI, Dec 16: More than 100 activists protesting against a new Indian citizenship law were injured in New Delhi on Sunday as they clashed with police who used tear gas and baton charges to disperse demonstrators at a major university.
Dec 16, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Pokhara street festival to begin on December 28
Pokhara street festival to begin on December 28
POKHARA, Dec 16: In view of the Nepal Visit Year-2020, the Restaurant and Bar Association (REBAN) Pokhara is organizing 21st road festival at Pokhara's popular tourism hub, Lakeside, from 28 December 2019 to 1 January 2020.
Dec 16, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Transport department starts printing of driving licenses
Transport department starts printing of driving licenses
KATHMANDU, Dec 16: The Department of Transport Management (DoTM) has claimed that the smart driving licenses backlog will be cleared within four or five months.
Dec 16, 2019
Editorial
Concerns over education policy
Concerns over education policy
Granting affiliation to medical colleges has remained a matter of contention in Nepal’s medical education system. Often the university officials, including the vice-chancellors and registrars themselves, are accused of grating affiliations to colleges to run medical education courses on the basis o...
Dec 16, 2019
OPINION
Ending the stigma of menstruation
Ending the stigma of menstruation
Globally, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women is celebrated every year on 25 November. On this occasion, the United Nations launched sixteen days of activism to advocate for gender equality and elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls. Statistically,...
Dec 16, 2019
OPINION
Combating environmental threat
Combating environmental threat
The quest for economic development and materialism has been almost like Faustian saga in the modern times. As the learned Dr Faustus had to make a deal with evil Mephistopheles who tempted him to exchange his soul for carnal desires, we modern human beings, are exchanging clean environment with the...
Dec 16, 2019
OPINION
State and Technological Revolution
State and Technological Revolution
LONDON – The following account should sound familiar. Over the course of decades, feats of innovation re-engineer society, diffuse across countries and regions, and fundamentally alter every facet of life. Politicians, slow to respond to new challenges, centralize power and pursue older, more famili...
Dec 16, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Heavy snowfall in Khaptad, wildlife at risk
Heavy snowfall in Khaptad, wildlife at risk
DOTI, Dec 16: Heavy snowfall and dipping mercury in Khaptad area has put the wildlife there at the risk of survival. As they move down to warmer areas in the human settlements to avoid the extreme cold, they turn vulnerable, according to Khaptad National Park authorities, who state that the mercury...
Dec 16, 2019