SOCIETY
Printing ballot papers to affect textbooks availability
Printing ballot papers to affect textbooks availability
KATHMANDU, Feb 28: The government's preparations to hold local elections will affect the printing of school textbooks, causing a crisis for millions of students.
Feb 28, 2017
POLITICS
EC to enforce code of conduct from Wednesday
EC to enforce code of conduct from Wednesday
KATHMANDU, Feb 28: The Election Commission (EC) is preparing to enforce the election code of conduct from Wednesday, barring the government from carrying out any recruitment, promotion or transfer of civil servants and from allocating budgets for new development projects.
Feb 28, 2017
Editorial
Hurry up
Hurry up
After the April 2015 earthquakes, the home ministry had labeled 475 settlements across 18 districts landslide-prone during the monsoons. After that, another survey of the Department of Mines and Geology had identified 117 settlements in 11 districts as the most vulnerable.
Feb 28, 2017
ECONOMY
RBI team arriving today to discuss exchange facility
RBI team arriving today to discuss exchange facility
KATHMANDU, Feb 28: A team of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) -- the central monetary authority of India -- is arriving Nepal on Tuesday to hold discussion on management of demonetized Indian banknotes that Nepali bank and financial institutions (BFIs) and general public possess.
Feb 28, 2017
OPINION
Media slogans
Media slogans
My interest was piqued when I noticed a number of our local tabloids, as slim as four pages, using the label “national daily”
Feb 28, 2017
POLITICS
Expert call for revising torture bill
Expert call for revising torture bill
KATHMANDU, Feb 28: Legal experts have said that the Bill to Control Torture, Inhuman, Brutal and Disrespectful Acts 2016, which is currently on hold in parliament does not meet the international standards.
Feb 28, 2017
OPINION
Vital FSU election
Vital FSU election
The main task of new student leaders will be to save public education at a time of rampant privatization
Feb 28, 2017
POLITICS
Malla-era stone pillar restored in Patan
Malla-era stone pillar restored in Patan
PATAN, Feb 28: A team of Nepali and Austrian conservationists has restored the Malla-era idols of King Yoganarendra Malla and his two wives atop a stone pillar located inside the Patan Durbar Square.
Feb 28, 2017
OPINION
Money for Asia
Money for Asia
Why don’t Asian countries invest their savings within their own region? One reason is that the US dominates global finance
Feb 28, 2017
SOCIETY
Explosion at college in Gorkha, padlocking at another
Explosion at college in Gorkha, padlocking at another
GORKHA, Feb 28: With the Free Students Union elections at least a week away, the All Nepal National Independent Student Union-Revolutionary (ANNISU-R) affiliated to Netra Bikram Chand-led CPN Maoist has padlocked the gates of a college in Gorkha while an unidentified group has carried out explosion...
Feb 28, 2017