Ailments of education

Published On: April 21, 2019 12:25 AM NPT By: Rishi Ram Paudyal

Awareness-raising and educating the people through mass media—by the government, its agents or by citizens—is one of the tools to lead the nation toward the progressive path. It is with this belief I bring up the anomalies in Tribhuvan University’s Master’s of Education program.

No time for NOTAM

Published On: April 20, 2019 01:05 AM NPT By: Hemant Arjyal

Irrespective of the suffering caused by the cancellation of RA’s flight (RA231) to Dubai (DWC) due to night time runway closure after 10 PM, it was good that Notice to Airmen (NOTAM) was strictly followed. Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) is currently passing through a phase of ten hours airport closure that is to last until the end of June. By then, the whole of runway surface will have been scrapped out and done anew.

Ban your fears

Published On: April 20, 2019 12:25 AM NPT By: Avash Karmacharya

I was in grade seven in school when a fellow classmate asked me if I knew what ‘sex’ meant. I replied that I had no clue. He told me to go home and find its meaning from the dictionary. I obliged politely, went back home and the meaning read “sex is an intercourse between a man and a woman”. I mugged it up and the next day at school recited the same line to this friend.

How PUBG ruins children

Published On: April 20, 2019 12:05 AM NPT By: Biranchi Poudyal/Samikshya Thapa

Responsible parenting often feels like endless series of saying ‘no’. No, you can’t have junk food before lunch. No, you can’t ride bi-cycle in main road.  And now no, you can’t sit around playing PUBG all day. Our childhood has given us some first-hand knowledge regarding digital world of games, thanks to that old mercantile machine.

Rising threat of pollution

Published On: April 18, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: Sandip Neupane

Right to clean environment is the fundamental right granted by the constitution. Health of general public should not be compromised in the name of development.

Hemophilia cure

Published On: April 18, 2019 12:30 AM NPT By: S Satapathy

The government should consider incorporating a specific hemophilia care policy in the national health policy of Nepal

Developing Madhes

Published On: April 17, 2019 01:30 AM NPT By: Sukhdev Shah

If Prime Minister Oli and Chairman Dahal are truly concerned about Madhesi welfare, they should work to tame Koshi floods and put in place a mechanism to harness Kosi water

Think beyond training

Published On: April 17, 2019 01:00 AM NPT By: Bhogendra Lamichhane

Continuing professional development method is slowly being recognised in Nepal as a key motivator for teachers to develop their skills and knowledge

NATO’s Stoltenberg paradox

Published On: April 17, 2019 12:30 AM NPT By: Bogdan Klich

The US and its European NATO allies disagree on many important issues, but their cooperation within the Alliance is better than it has been in years

Balance in a turbulent world

Published On: April 16, 2019 01:25 AM NPT By: Prakash Chandra Lohani

The Trump administration in the US has come up with the Indo-Pacific doctrine which in many ways is a restatement of Barak Obama’s pivot to Asia, known as the rebalance doctrine. Both doctrines are of the same origin and carry a shadow of the famous Thucydides trap that was popularized by Harvard Professor Graham Allison in the 1990s.