POLITICS, ELECTION
High-level EC team off to India to study EVMs
High-level EC team off to India to study EVMs
KATMANDU, July 12: A high-level team of Election Commission (EC) has left for India to study feasibility of Indian Electronic Voting Machines in upcoming provincial and parliamentary elections.
Jul 13, 2017
SOCIETY
Same medical equipment but price gap of Rs 50m for 2 hospitals
Same medical equipment but price gap of Rs 50m for 2 hospita...
KATHMANDU, July 12: Medical equipment supply to hospitals by some contractors shows how irregularities are perpetrated by government officials and the contractors.
Jul 13, 2017
SOCIETY
Humla children sell timbers to cover education expenses
Humla children sell timbers to cover education expenses
HUMLA, July 12: Young children carrying timber on their backs from Dadafya to Simkot, the district headquarters of Humla, have become a common sight. The children have been carrying heavy loads on a daily basis in order to manage money to pay their school expenses. It is not their will, but compulsi...
Jul 13, 2017
POLITICS
Lawmakers advocate lenient provisions for civil servants
Lawmakers advocate lenient provisions for civil servants
KATHMANDU, July 12: Most of the lawmakers from the major political parties have demanded lenient provisions for civil servants in the Civil Servants Adjustment Bill in the parliament.
Jul 13, 2017
Editorial
On different planes
On different planes
Wasteful bureaucrats
Jul 13, 2017
OPINION
Corridors of life
Corridors of life
Nepal aims to increase the number of tigers to double the current level by 2018. But it has been tough to balance its conservation and infrastructure development.
Jul 13, 2017
Interview
UML’s success owes to linking of blockade with statute amendment
UML’s success owes to linking of blockade with statute amend...
It is said that one reason the ruling Congress-Maoist coalition could not muster two-thirds majority in favor of the constitution amendment bill was the vacillating stand of Rastriya
Prajatantra Party (RPP). Was RPP, as a party, in favor of or against the bill? Is it even one united party? Is it j...
Jul 13, 2017
POLITICS, ELECTION
Ethnic parties in eastern hills lose election deposits in their own strongholds
Ethnic parties in eastern hills lose election deposits in th...
ILAM, July 12: Ethnicity-based fringe parties, which have their stronghold in the eastern hill districts, have lost their election deposits in their own bastion after failing to secure even 10% of the votes in the elections.
Jul 13, 2017
Infographic
Militants kill Hindu Pilgrims in Kashmir
Militants kill Hindu Pilgrims in Kashmir
Militants kill Hindu Pilgrims in Kashmir
Jul 13, 2017
SPORTS
Murray beaten in Wimbledon quarter-finals by Querrey
Murray beaten in Wimbledon quarter-finals by Querrey
LONDON, July 12: Andy Murray's Wimbledon title defence ended in a 3-6 6-4 6-7(4) 6-1 6-1 quarter-final defeat to Sam Querrey on Wednesday as the hip injury that has dogged the world number one throughout the tournament finally got the better of him.
Jul 12, 2017