ECONOMY, Latest Updates
Tourism ministers of four foreign nations to attend VNY opening
Tourism ministers of four foreign nations to attend VNY open...
KATHMANDU, Dec 31 : Tourism ministers from four countries will grace the inaugural ceremony of Visit Nepal year (VNY) 2020 to be held at Dasharath Stadium on Wednesday.
Dec 31, 2019
Editorial, Latest Updates
Dismal outcome
Dismal outcome
That Nepal’s agriculture sector is not producing enough to meet the needs of its about 30 million people is a reality. Despite having potentials for growing a huge amount of crops, vegetables and fruits, most of our fertile lands in the hills and plains remain barren. We are importing fruits, vegeta...
Dec 31, 2019
OPINION
Reimagining democracy
Reimagining democracy
When Carl Linnaeus first coined the term Homo Sapiens in the year 1758, modern humans had already shed their seemingly homogenous biological construction to reveal differences that were far too festered for common grouping. The ideological, religious and cultural leanings of different societies all...
Dec 31, 2019
ECONOMY, Latest Updates
Government to buy 5,000 quintals more paddy in Nepalgunj
Government to buy 5,000 quintals more paddy in Nepalgunj
NEPALGUNJ, Dec 31: The Bheri zonal office of Food Management and Trading Company Ltd (FMTC) has said that it would increase paddy procurement quota by 5,000 quintals this season.
Dec 31, 2019
OPINION
The year of the Yeti
The year of the Yeti
For a few days, yours truly had been searching for the topic to write something or anything about. You see this scribbler is not some great writer, who can write a masterpiece in a jiffy, in a manner that a magician brings out all sorts of objects as per the demand from the audience.
Dec 31, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Apex court rejects reinstatement plea of rape-convict army captain
Apex court rejects reinstatement plea of rape-convict army c...
KATHMANDU, Dec 31: Upholding a decision taken earlier by a military court, the Supreme Court on Monday affirmed that the matters concerning the conduct of military personnel fall under the jurisdiction of the Military Special Court.
Dec 31, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Leopard kills toddler
Leopard kills toddler
DULEGAUDA, TANAHU, Dec 31: A leopard has killed a 22-month-old baby boy at Ratamata village of Shuklagandadi Rural Municipality–22. Raju Nepal's toddler son Rabin was playing at the patio of his house when he came under the leopard's brutal attack on Sunday. His dead body was found one kilometer awa...
Dec 31, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Nurses taking the lead in diabetes control campaigns
Nurses taking the lead in diabetes control campaigns
BANEPA, Dec 31: There used to be a time when nurses were identified only as helping hands to doctors. A common understanding that they are only someone who provides medicines to the sick was prevalent. However, as Dhulikhel Hospital for the first time conducted diabetes control campaigns, giving com...
Dec 31, 2019
OPINION
Not Another Arab Spring
Not Another Arab Spring
TEL AVIV : “A specter is haunting the rich world. It is the specter of ungovernability,” began an editorial in The Economist earlier this year, paraphrasing the opening line of the Communist Manifesto. But it is not only the West that is grappling with ungovernability. Across the Arab world, protest...
Dec 31, 2019
ECONOMY, Latest Updates
Nepse stretches sideways movement with modest gain
Nepse stretches sideways movement with modest gain
KATHMANDU, Dec 31: The Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index traded flat in early trading on Monday. However, a steady advance after mid-session saw the index recoup its previous day's losses. The benchmark index eventually ended the session 5.53 points higher at 1,167.95 points.
Dec 31, 2019