SOCIETY
Art festival to highlight domestic workers' woes
Art festival to highlight domestic workers' woes
KATMANDU, June 15: Pourakhi Nepal on Friday organized an art festival to highlight the woes of domestic workers in Nepal and abroad.
Jun 16, 2018
SOCIETY
Gangamaya's autobiography unveiled
Gangamaya's autobiography unveiled
KATHMANDU, June 15: An autobiography of Gangamaya Adhikari, who has been struggling for justice against the murder of her son Krishna Prasad Adhikari by Maoists during the insurgency, was launched amid a function in Kathmandu on Friday.
Jun 16, 2018
SOCIETY
Kalikot hospital put plaster cast on child's wrong hand
Kalikot hospital put plaster cast on child's wrong hand
KALIKOT, June 15: In a case of sheer negligence, doctors at the District Hospital, Kalikot have put plaster cast on the left hand of a four-year-old child who had broken her right hand.
Jun 16, 2018
SOCIETY
Confucius Institute to be set up at TU
Confucius Institute to be set up at TU
KATHMANDU, June 15: Tribhuvan University and East China University of Technology (ECUT) have signed an agreement to establish Confucius Institute at the central office of Tribhuvan University.
Jun 16, 2018
SOCIETY
UNHCR representative presents credentials to minister
UNHCR representative presents credentials to minister
KATHMANDU, June 15: The newly-appointed UNHCR Representative in Nepal Bushra Halepota presented her credentials to Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Gyawali on Friday. Bushra, who just arrived in Nepal to take up her new assignment as UNHCR Representative in Nepal, began her career with the UN in...
Jun 16, 2018
SOCIETY
Ministry prepares to abandon 'suffocating' prefab building
Ministry prepares to abandon 'suffocating' prefab building
KATHMANDU, June 15: While millions of people displaced by the Gorkha earthquake of 2015 continue to live in makeshift shelters, the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security (MoLESS) is planning to abandon a newly-constructed building inside Singha Durbar after a few ministry staffers compla...
Jun 16, 2018
SPORTS
Portugal and Spain settles for draw, Ronaldo bags hat-trick
Portugal and Spain settles for draw, Ronaldo bags hat-trick
KATHMANDU, June 16: Cristiano Ronaldo scores hat trick to equalize 1 goal trailed in the second half while Diesgo Costa scored two for the Spanish side, with a stunner from Nacho.
Jun 16, 2018
SOCIETY
Ministry prepares to abandon 'suffocating' prefab building
Ministry prepares to abandon 'suffocating' prefab building
KATHMANDU, June 15: While millions of people displaced by the Gorkha earthquake of 2015 continue to live in makeshift shelters, the Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security (MoLESS) is planning to abandon a newly-constructed building inside Singha Durbar after a few ministry staffers compla...
Jun 16, 2018
POLITICS
Dahal slams petit bourgeois, calls for a strong communist center
Dahal slams petit bourgeois, calls for a strong communist ce...
KATHMANDU, June 15: Chairperson of Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Pushpa Kamal Dahal has accused the communists from Nepal of being petit bourgeois, who run faction-filled parties and has called his fellow communists to help build a strong communist center.
Jun 16, 2018
SOCIETY
Dutchman arrested for pedophilia
Dutchman arrested for pedophilia
KATHMANDU, June 15: In what may be yet another case of a foreigner sexually abusing children in Nepal under the cover of philanthropic activity, the Crime Investigation Bureau has arrested a 66-year-old Dutchman in the capital on suspicion of involvement in pedophilia, a psychiatric disorder that le...
Jun 16, 2018