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For sake of pupils’ pupils, China to ban homework on apps
Published On: February 18, 2019 06:30 PM NPT By: Associated Press
BEIJING, Feb 18: An eastern Chinese province plans to ban teachers from assigning homework to be completed on cellphone apps as part of efforts to preserve students’ eyesight.
Bandana Rana elected as vice-chair at UN CEDAW Committee
Published On: February 18, 2019 06:29 PM NPT By: Santosh Ghimire
KATHMANDU, Feb 18: Nepal's candidate Bandana Rana has been elected as vice-chairperson at the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) for two years on Monday.
CDO Bhattarai succumbs to injuries
Published On: February 18, 2019 03:35 PM NPT By: Republica
KATHMANDU, Feb 18: Chief District Officer (CDO) Ganesh Prasad Bhattarai who had sustained critical injuries in Bara road accident has passed away.
India’s border with Myanmar is new route for Nepalis being taken to Gulf
Published On: February 18, 2019 12:00 PM NPT By: Agencies
She had wanted to travel to Kuwait to find employment as a domestic worker. “Everyone used to go for work there and earn lots of money and send money to their families,” said the 33-year-old from Nepal’s Surkhet district. Her husband’s income as a marginal farmer was not enough to run the household and pay for the education of their four children, and there were few employment opportunities in Nepal for a school-dropout like her.
CNN Hero Doyne contributes in construction of school building
Published On: February 18, 2019 10:04 AM NPT By: Nagendra Upadhyaya
SURKHET, Feb 18: CNN Hero of 2015 Maggie Doyne has contributed to the construction of a well-facilitated school in Birendranagar, the capital of Karnali Province.
Schools shut down to protest attack on teachers
Published On: February 18, 2019 10:02 AM NPT By: Tanka Chhetri
SARLAHI, Feb 18: All community schools in Ishwarpur Municipality of Sarlahi remained closed on Sunday after some locals thrashed teachers of Janata Secondary School (JSS), Shreenagar.
School stops mid-day meal, Chepang students quit school
Published On: February 18, 2019 09:58 AM NPT By: Sabita Shrestha
CHITWAN, Feb 18: Janjagriti Basic School (JBS) at the Bandarjhula settlement in Madi Municipality has 50 students. In the beginning of the academic year, there were 15 students from the Chepang community in the school but most of them have stopped coming to school after the Dashain festival.
Patients elated to regain lost eyesight
Published On: February 18, 2019 09:49 AM NPT By: BHAGWATI LAMA
NUWAKOT, Feb 17: Lal Bahadur Tamang, 80, of Shivapuri Rural Municipality-5 in Nuwakot district lost his eyesight a year ago. He is elated to have his eyesight back after a year of harrowing tale.
Public uproar on social media after song removed from YouTube
Published On: February 18, 2019 08:45 AM NPT By: Biken K Dawadi
KATHMANDU, Feb 18: After receiving pressure from various forefronts of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) on his new satirical song ‘Lutna sake lut’, popular folk singer Pashupati Sharma removed the song from YouTube on Saturday. Claiming that such ‘unethical’ action of the government is a serious act of undermining freedom of expression, the general public has taken to various platforms to vent their ire against the government move.
Indian embankment puts 1,300 families at risk of inundation in Kailali
Published On: February 18, 2019 07:55 AM NPT By: DIL BAHADUR CHHATYAL /PUSHPA RAJ JOSHI
KAILALI, Feb 18: An embankment being constructed by India near the Indo-Nepal border neighboring the Kairali Rural Municipality has alarmed locals of inundation in their areas during the rainy season.
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