SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Discounts galore on smartphones this Dashain
Discounts galore on smartphones this Dashain
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Gifts, accessories, free holiday packages on offer
Sep 26, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Mountain goats: Meat lovers’ choice for Dashain
Mountain goats: Meat lovers’ choice for Dashain
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POKHARA, Sept 26: For many, Dashain is a festival about good food. And for meat lovers, obviously, meat is a major foodstuff. The consumption of meat is almost doubled at the time of Dashain.
Sep 26, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
A dozen arrested for ATM fraud
A dozen arrested for ATM fraud
KATHMANDU, Sept 26: Twelve individuals have been arrested over their alleged role in stealing Rs 47.3 million from various ATM kiosks of Agricultural Development Bank Limited.
Sep 26, 2019
ECONOMY, Latest Updates
Crusher plants operating without license, administration stays quiet
Crusher plants operating without license, administration sta...
BARA, Sept 26: Dozens of crusher plants in the district are still in operation even after their licenses were scrapped for flouting regulations. The plants which, by rule, cannot operate near human settlements, temple, wildlife reserves, health post and schools, among other sensitive zones, have bee...
Sep 26, 2019
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Nepal convening SAARC ministerial meet in New York Thursday
Nepal convening SAARC ministerial meet in New York Thursday
NEW YORK, Sept 26: Nepal is set to convene a SAARC ministerial meeting in New York on Thursday. The meeting is widely expected to pave the way for an icebreaker dialogue between India and Pakistan, whose relations are in the lowest ebb in the aftermath of recent border skirmishes and Indian clampdow...
Sep 26, 2019
Editorial
Tame inflation
Tame inflation
It need not be emphasized how inflation affects the general people. Prices of daily goods go up way too high. People lose purchasing capacity. And when the people cannot purchase goods, production falls and ultimately whole of the economy suffers badly and at times irrevocably. Nepal at the moment s...
Sep 26, 2019
OPINION
Don’t blame the constitution
Don’t blame the constitution
On the lead up to the Constitution Day and the day itself last week, as cynics on social media were jeering at the government’s appeal to people to mark the day by wearing national flag emblazoned t-shirts, my contemplation was on what the press and intelligentsia would say about the constitution t...
Sep 26, 2019
OPINION
How safe is your data?
How safe is your data?
Data is becoming the new oil. Governments are under substantial pressure from the citizens to protect their data. Organizations such as Google, Facebook and Apple make daily headlines for manipulating data of the consumers by selling them to marketing agencies.
Sep 26, 2019
OPINION
Sustainability with Chinese characteristics
Sustainability with Chinese characteristics
NEW HAVEN – In the here and now of climate change, it is easy to lose sight of important signs of progress. China, the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases, is a case in point. By changing its economic model, shifting its sources of fuel, developing new transportation systems, and embracing e...
Sep 26, 2019
Infographic
Infographics: The Oceans are Getting Warmer
Infographics: The Oceans are Getting Warmer
Annual average temperatures of the oceans’ surfaces have been diverging from the 20th century (1900-1999) average more and more since the 1980s. In 2018, global ocean surface temperatures were 0.66 degrees Celsius higher than that century’s average, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...
Sep 26, 2019