ECONOMY
Public construction works will be carried out in two shifts from now onward: Janardan Shar...
Public construction works will be carried out in two shifts...
KATHMANDU, Oct 10: In the course of discussing the implementation of the budget with various agencies, the Ministry of Finance held discussions with the National Planning Commission on Sunday. At the meeting, emphasis was laid on increasing the capital expenditure and moving ahead with the programs...
Oct 10, 2021
ECONOMY
Metlife celebrates its top achievers
Metlife celebrates its top achievers
KATHMANDU, Oct 10: MetLife Nepal, a life insurance company, celebrated its top agency performers at its Annual Awards Night in Kathmandu this week. The event was hosted by Vice President and General Manager for MetLife Nepal, Nirmal Kajee Shrestha and was attended by top officials of the company al...
Oct 10, 2021
ECONOMY, POLITICS
Let’s replace LP gas with electric appliances: Energy Minister Bhusal
Let’s replace LP gas with electric appliances: Energy Minist...
KATHMANDU, Oct 10: Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation, Pampha Bhusal has appealed to build homes from now onward so as to run all household appliances on electricity within the next one year.
Oct 10, 2021
My City, Entertainment
Kim Kardashian West pokes fun at famous family as SNL host
Kim Kardashian West pokes fun at famous family as SNL host
Kim Kardashian West, sporting a hot pink catsuit, skewered everyone from her mom’s boyfriend to her famous sex tape and estranged husband Kanye during her first turn hosting “Saturday Night Live.”
Oct 10, 2021
SOCIETY, PHOTO FEATURE/Video
IN PICS: People leaving Valley in hordes for Dashain
IN PICS: People leaving Valley in hordes for Dashain
KATHMANDU, Oct 10: People have started leaving the Kathmandu Valley to celebrate the Dashain festival.
Oct 10, 2021
My City, Lifestyle
At flooded restaurant near Bangkok, the special is a splash
At flooded restaurant near Bangkok, the special is a splash
A flood-hit riverside restaurant in Thailand has become an unlikely dining hotspot after fun-loving foodies began flocking to its waterlogged deck to eat amid the lapping tide. Now, instead of empty chairs and vacant tables, the Chaopraya Antique Café is as full as ever, offering an experience the c...
Oct 10, 2021
My City, Entertainment
‘Squid Game’ Mania in Korea Is Driven by Nostalgia and New Talent, but Show Splits Opinion
‘Squid Game’ Mania in Korea Is Driven by Nostalgia and New T...
“Have you watched ‘Squid Game’?” is as common a question in South Korea as it is in much of the rest of the world, where it has become a breakout success for Netflix as the streamer’s biggest non-English-language series. But audiences in the show’s home country are divided over its merits.
Oct 10, 2021
SOCIETY
COVID-19 infection in Nepal decreases by 60 percent
COVID-19 infection in Nepal decreases by 60 percent
KATHMANDU, Oct 10: The coronavirus infection in Nepal has decreased by 60 percent, according to the Ministry of Health and Population. The ministry’s Spokesperson Dr Krishna Prasad Poudel said that the infection rate has decreased by 60 percent in a month.
Oct 10, 2021
My City, Gen-Next, Slammed
Embracing
Embracing
Green fields appear luxuriously green
In a shareable moment from a
Window seat of a local bus.
The local air greets welcome to all.
Oct 10, 2021
My City, Entertainment, Literature
Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize
Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah awarded Nobel literature prize
Gurnah, who recently retired as a professor of English and post-colonial literatures at the University of Kent, got the call from the Swedish Academy in the kitchen of his home in Canterbury, in southeast England — and initially thought it was a prank.
Oct 10, 2021