POLITICS, Latest Updates
Nepal seeks international support to achieve SDGs
Nepal seeks international support to achieve SDGs
NEW YORK, Sept 25: As Nepal struggles to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from internal resources, officials have sought support from the international community for achieving SDGs at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
Sep 25, 2019
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Nepal-China ideological symposium ends with accord on ‘high-level visit’
Nepal-China ideological symposium ends with accord on ‘high-...
KATHMANDU, Sept 25: The first-ever ideological debate between Nepal and China has concluded on Tuesday signing a six-point memorandum of understanding amid a function in Kathmandu. The MoU that was signed by Nepal Communist Party’s Foreign Affairs Department chief Madhav Kumar Nepal and Song Tao, In...
Sep 25, 2019
Editorial, Latest Updates
Gaping holes
Gaping holes
Potholes and dusts have almost become one of the defining attributes of the Kathmandu Valley. When it rains these potholes get filled with water, which when the vehicles ram upon, splash around nearby pedestrians and bikers. Kathmandu’s potholes have proven to be death traps too.
Sep 25, 2019
OPINION, Latest Updates
Salaries remain the same
Salaries remain the same
In one early announcement of this year’s budget on May 30, Finance Minister Yuvraj Khatiwada said that growth target has been set at 8.5 percent for the year and it will ensue from a number of growth inducing schemes introduced with the new budget and will be supported by a record Rs.1.53 trillion s...
Sep 25, 2019
OPINION, Latest Updates
Are we prepared?
Are we prepared?
I was going through Instagram posts and came across a majestic photo of Kanchenjunga. The photo was taken from a hotel in Damak, which is situated at an elevation of 126 meters. A 8,586 meter high mountain was looming behind the hills, roughly at a vertical distance of 130 kilometers.
Apart from m...
Sep 25, 2019
OPINION, Latest Updates
The last days of Netanyahu?
The last days of Netanyahu?
TEL AVIV – At long last, Israel has taken a step back from the religious nationalist abyss into which Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had been leading it. In the September 17 parliamentary election, the country’s second in five months, the “natural coalition” of Netanyahu’s Likud party, Orthodox g...
Sep 25, 2019
Infographic
UN Budget : Who Has Paid Their Dues?
UN Budget : Who Has Paid Their Dues?
All permanent UN members have made their full regular payments to the intergovernmental body, except the United States.
Sep 25, 2019
My City, Entertainment, Art & Culture, Exhibitions
‘Art is Power’ on display
‘Art is Power’ on display
‘Art is Power’; an artistic outcome by the girls who are asking for an equal world through their art work for the equal representation has begun at Siddhartha Art Gallery, Baber Mahal Revisited. One week long exhibition kicked off on September 22 that features around 150 representative artworks by g...
Sep 24, 2019
My City, Lifestyle
Loo and behold! Japan's high-tech toilets bemuse fans
Loo and behold! Japan's high-tech toilets bemuse fans
Japan may not win their home Rugby World Cup but they have already proved themselves world beaters when it comes to toilets.
Sep 24, 2019
WORLD
Brexit crisis deepens as court rules Johnson unlawfully suspended UK parliament
Brexit crisis deepens as court rules Johnson unlawfully susp...
LONDON, Sept 24: The United Kingdom’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to shut down parliament in the run-up to Brexit was unlawful, a humiliating rebuke that thrusts Britain’s exit from the European Union into deeper turmoil.
Sep 24, 2019