ECONOMY, Latest Updates
Flowers worth Rs 300 million sold during this Dashain and Tihar
Flowers worth Rs 300 million sold during this Dashain and Ti...
KATHMANDU, Nov 2: The business of flowers crossed Rs 300 million during this year's Dashain and Tihar festivals, according to Floriculture Association Nepal (FAN).
Nov 02, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
70 percent population in Mai Municipality landless
70 percent population in Mai Municipality landless
ILAM, Nov 2: Around 70 percent of people in Mai Municipality of Ilam living across 246.11 square kilometers of land are landless since decades, according to the data provided municipality.
Nov 02, 2019
My City, Gen-Next, Slammed
This is life
This is life
Often along the shores of life
One cannot help but adopt to the flow,
The small and the big tides
The gentle and the harsh waves
The awakening life and the silencing death.
Nov 02, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Baliyo Nepal nutrition movement launched
Baliyo Nepal nutrition movement launched
KATHMANDU, Nov 2: President Bidya Bhandari launched Baliyo Nepal, a national nutrition movement, amidst a special function at President’s Office, Shital Niwas on Friday. Baliyo Nepal seeks to mobilize private sector and civil society to support Nepal’s efforts in the reduction of chronic malnutritio...
Nov 02, 2019
POLITICS, Latest Updates
Parties busy discussing whom to field for by-polls
Parties busy discussing whom to field for by-polls
KATHMANDU, Nov 2: With the by-elections slated for November 30 approaching fast, the major political parties are busy in closed-door discussions to finalizing their candidates for the 52 seats at stake at the central, provincial and local government levels.
Nov 02, 2019
WORLD
Downtown Hong Kong becomes battleground as night falls
Downtown Hong Kong becomes battleground as night falls
HONG KONG, Nov 2: Hong Kong police fired tear gas into a park to break up thousands of anti-government protesters who fled to the Central business district, setting fire to street barricades and metro stations in some of the worst violence in months of unrest.Central, its streets lined with banks a...
Nov 02, 2019
SOCIETY, Latest Updates
Mahara makes court statement, denies charges
Mahara makes court statement, denies charges
KATHMANDU, Nov 2: Ex-speaker of the lower house of parliament Krishna Bahadur Mahara, who resigned from the post following allegations of the attempted rape of a female employee at the parliament secretariat last month, rejected most of the allegations in the charge sheet while recording his statem...
Nov 02, 2019
ECONOMY, Latest Updates
Trade deficit shrinks by 12% in first quarter
Trade deficit shrinks by 12% in first quarter
KATHMANDU, Nov 2: Nepal’s trade deficit in the first three months of the current fiscal year declined by an impressive 12 percent, giving the country some respite from the ever-worsening balance of trade over the past several years.
Nov 02, 2019
OPINION, Latest Updates
Literature for common men
Literature for common men
Language of literature today is completely carnivalistic. Entire marketplace creeps into modern day writing. The erstwhile margin is becoming the new centre
Nov 02, 2019
OPINION, Latest Updates
Attaining Bairag
Attaining Bairag
If you start talking to rich persons, their clothes, their direction of talk, their houses, all smell of money. They are unknowingly showing off their richness. This is the Rag
Nov 02, 2019