POLITICS
Bill bars local units from recruiting civil servants
Bill bars local units from recruiting civil servants
KATHMANDU, Sept 4: A bill drafted by the Ministry of Federal Affairs and General Administration proposes barring the local units from recruiting civil servants on their own. Revising the draft bill prepared to replace the Civil Service Act with the Federal Civil Service Bill, the ministry has barred...
Sep 04, 2018
SOCIETY
3 children killed after landslilde buries house
3 children killed after landslilde buries house
DANG, Sept 4: Three children of the same family in Salyan were killed when a landslide buried their home on Sunday evening. Landslides buried the house of Balaram Dangi, a local of Bamphukhola of Bagchaur Municipality-12 in the district. It led to deaths of his three children, informed District Poli...
Sep 04, 2018
SOCIETY
Families still hopeful of return of disappeared kin
Families still hopeful of return of disappeared kin
GULMI, Sept 4: Data maintained by the district chapter of TRC shows that over a dozen people from the district were victims of enforced disappearance. GULMI, Sept 4: Laxman Marasini of Resunga Municipality-9 of Gulmi, formerly known as Tamghas-6, had left home on January 26, 2001 to meet his brothe...
Sep 04, 2018
SOCIETY
NMA protests partially affect hospitals on second day
NMA protests partially affect hospitals on second day
KATHMANDU, Sept 4: On the second day of the protest called by the Nepal Medical Association (NMA), the professional organization of doctors, the administrative works were partially affected at the hospitals and health facilities across the country on Monday although the doctors had previously decide...
Sep 04, 2018
SOCIETY
The Naubise-Nagdhunga ‘nightmare’
The Naubise-Nagdhunga ‘nightmare’
DHADING, Sept 4: After leaving Dhadingbesi of Dhading at 5:30 in the morning, a passenger bus reached Kathmandu at 3 in the afternoon. Normally, it is a three hour distance but the miserable road has made travelling lengthier these days. The sloppy and bumpy road, multiple bends, overloaded and spee...
Sep 04, 2018
ECONOMY
DFID-aided project funds profit-making banks to expand business
DFID-aided project funds profit-making banks to expand busin...
KATHMANDU, Sept 4: Commercial banks that have been earning billions in annual profits are benefitting from grants from Sakchyam, a project funded by the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) to increase access to finance for the poor.
Sep 04, 2018
SOCIETY
Doctors' strike: Patients forced to spend nights on cold hospital floors
Doctors' strike: Patients forced to spend nights on cold hos...
KATHMANDU, Sept 4: The doctors' strike on Sunday brought health services in the country to a standstill, leaving hundreds lined up in front of hospitals in the hope of receiving treatment.
Sep 04, 2018
POLITICS
No laws on fundamental rights ready though deadline ends Sept 19
No laws on fundamental rights ready though deadline ends Sep...
KATHMANDU, Sept 4: The government has failed to formulate even a single law essential for the implement of the newly-introduced fundamental rights even as the constitutional deadline for enacting such laws ends on September 19.
Sep 04, 2018
SOCIETY
Teachers protest against govt's negligence toward education sector
Teachers protest against govt's negligence toward education...
KATHMANDU, Sept 4: The Confederation of Nepalese Teachers (CNT) took to the streets on Monday to protest against the government's negligence toward the education sector and teachers.
Sep 04, 2018
Editorial
Right to vote for Nepalis living abroad
Right to vote for Nepalis living abroad
Nepal’s Supreme Court has directed the government to make necessary arrangements to allow Nepali citizens living and working in foreign countries to vote in coming elections.
Sep 04, 2018