SPORTS, Latest Updates
Veteran athlete Jit Bahadur KC felicitated
Veteran athlete Jit Bahadur KC felicitated
KATHMANDU, Jan 26: Kakhara Pre-School has hosted its second annual sports-day event on Saturday. Children under the age of five participated in a variety of sports programs organized by the school where Jit Bahadur KC was the chief guest and was felicitated in the event.
Jan 26, 2020
SPORTS, Latest Updates
DCC Birgunj upsets home team Stars
DCC Birgunj upsets home team Stars
KATHAMANDU, Jan 26: DCC Birgunj won the inaugural match of the Birgunj Premier League T20 cricket event by 14 runs against home side Birgunj Stars held in Birgunj on Saturday.
Jan 26, 2020
SPORTS
Iheanacho fires Leicester into FA Cup fifth round
Iheanacho fires Leicester into FA Cup fifth round
LONDON, Jan 26: Leicester edged into the FA Cup fifth round as Kelechi Iheanacho's early goal sealed a 1-0 win at second tier Brentford on Saturday.
Jan 26, 2020
Editorial
Setback for tourism
Setback for tourism
Two incidents of the past week in Nepal are deeply worrying for the prospects of tourism at a time when the country is celebrating Visit Nepal 2020 during which Nepal aims to bring in as many as two million tourists. Both incidents are related to death of tourists. On Friday, massive avalanche hit t...
Jan 26, 2020
OPINION
Assessing privacy law
Assessing privacy law
The expanding growth of information technology with its ability to gather, analyze and disseminate data has raised the sense of urgency for enactment of laws on privacy in many countries. The parliament of Nepal enacted Individual’s Right to Privacy Act (2018) to implement Article 28 of the Constit...
Jan 26, 2020
OPINION
Unrest in France
Unrest in France
France has been facing transport strikes for one and a half months against the government, which is trying to reform its pension system. President Immanuel Macron wants to replace the current system of 42 pension regimes with a single point scheme that will be the same for everybody. It has caused a...
Jan 26, 2020
OPINION
Why AI Will Not Abolish Work
Why AI Will Not Abolish Work
VIENNA – The diffusion of artificial intelligence (AI) across the economy has raised the possibility—and for many, the fear—that machines will eventually replace human work. They will not only perform an ever-larger share of mechanical operations, as we have been observing since the first Industrial...
Jan 26, 2020
SPORTS, Latest Updates
Army held by NRT as title race goes down to the wire
Army held by NRT as title race goes down to the wire
KATHMANDU, Jan 26: Leader Tribhuvan Army Club could not put its inconsistency aside as it failed to go three points clear at the top ahead of Machhindra Club and Manang Marshyangdi Club as it was held to a 0-0 draw by New Road Team in the ongoing Martyr’s Memorial A-Division League in Kathmandu on S...
Jan 26, 2020
OPINION
Jobs are changing
Jobs are changing
Last year, I met my friend who was working in a bank. Some months back, I met him again at a party and asked him whether he was working in the same bank. He said that he had already left that bank and was now working as the manager of another bank. “One cannot make a professional growth working in t...
Jan 26, 2020
WORLD
Heavy rains dampen fires in Australia's Queensland state, cause flooding
Heavy rains dampen fires in Australia's Queensland state, ca...
MELBOURNE, Jan 26: Australia’s bushfire-stricken state of Queensland saw heavy rainfalls on Sunday dampening some of the fires that have razed 2.5 million hectares (1.2 million acres) of land since September, but the wet weather caused major flooding.
Jan 26, 2020