SOCIETY
5 more police officials suspended
5 more police officials suspended
KATHMANDU, Sept 16: The Ministry of Home Affairs has directed the police headquarters to suspend five police officials involved in investigating the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl in Kanchanpur with effect from Saturday accusing them of negligence.
Sep 16, 2018
SOCIETY
‘Zero’ progress in Nirmala rape case probe
‘Zero’ progress in Nirmala rape case probe
KANCHANPUR, Sept 16: Investigators are clueless in tracking those involved in the rape and murder of Nirmala Panta even as nearly two months have elapsed since the murder of the 13-year-old girl.
Sep 16, 2018
SOCIETY
#JusticeForNirmala rallies across country
#JusticeForNirmala rallies across country
KATHMANDU, Sept 16: Thousands of civilians took to the streets in major cities across the country on Saturday to exert pressure on the government to conduct an impartial investigation in the rape and murder case of Nirmala Panta, a thirteen-year-old girl of Mahendranagar.
Sep 16, 2018
SOCIETY
Locals risking their lives due to delay in bridge construction
Locals risking their lives due to delay in bridge constructi...
BARA, Sept 16: The snail-paced construction of a bridge has compelled the people to cross the Bangari River of Banjariya by risking their lives.
Sep 16, 2018
SOCIETY
Overflow of blocked Badigad River offers respite to locals
Overflow of blocked Badigad River offers respite to locals
BAGLUNG, Sept 16: Chuda Bahadur Kumal of Dhorpatan Municipality-2 had a sleepless night on Friday. A massive landslide, which struck Turture of Badigad-7, Bhimgithe, forced locals to rush for their lives in the middle of the night. A huge mass of earth which fell from some 500 meters above blocked t...
Sep 16, 2018
SOCIETY
Nepali migrant workers in Saudi Arabia running out of food stock
Nepali migrant workers in Saudi Arabia running out of food s...
KATHMANDU, Sept 16: Sixteen Nepali migrant workers are running out of food stock in Saudi Arabia after the company they were working for stopped providing them salary. They ran into trouble after an altercation with the manager of the company, who is an Egyptian national.
Sep 16, 2018
SOCIETY
Rautes seek details of expenditure
Rautes seek details of expenditure
DAILEKH, Sept 16: After learning about the immense irregularities conducted in the name of Raute Welfare Fund, people of this indigenous tribe have started acting cleverly. They have begun seeking details of expenditure with various government authorities responsible for distributing the fund.
Sep 16, 2018
Editorial
Local representatives: Focus on your job
Local representatives: Focus on your job
Under the federal system, all the state agencies have to work in a new structure and change the working modality of the civil servants, formulate all the necessary laws and arrange resources to the highly-expensive governing system. The federal system will be paralyzed if the systems within it are n...
Sep 16, 2018
OPINION
Together we should care
Together we should care
I struggle to come to terms with some aspects of culture—the culture where while some trailblazer women are fighting for their right to light the funeral pyre of their deceased parents, others are still using excuses to avoid helping their frail and financially dependent parents and the culture wher...
Sep 16, 2018
OPINION
No more crawling
No more crawling
Departments under Tribhuvan University are often chided for their inability to spur academic environment. But the separated Central Departments of Sociology and Anthropology seem to be doing otherwise. Just last week Central Department of Anthropology (CDA) organized its annual Dor Bahadur Bista mem...
Sep 16, 2018