School shut after mystery disease
- by Republica
BAITADI, Aug 11: The Latinath Higher Secondary School of Latinath, Darchula, has shut its teaching and learning activities for the time being after the school's girl students grew mystery disease.
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NIC to collect money from crowd-funding
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Aug 10: National Innovation Center has planned to raise money through crowd-funding to run the center.
Cops fault TIA customs in surveillance of drug smugglers
- by Kamal Pariyar
KATHMANDU, Aug 10: As in earlier narcotics busts, Nepal Police have blamed the Department of Customs at Nepal’s only international airport-- Tribhuwan International Airport (TIA)-for inadequate surveillance on incoming drug smugglers and carriers, and for thus contributing to Nepal becoming a transit point for them.
Illegal transport operators thrive in Koshi hills
- by Siddharaj Rai
DHANKUTA, Aug 11: In the last few years, lots of new road tracks have been opened in the Koshi region. Only a few of them are in proper condition and the concerned department has provided route permit only for few of them.
Oli sees conspiracy for constitutional vacuum
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Aug 11: Former Prime Minister and CPN-UML Chairman K P Sharma Oli said that he senses a conspiracy to push the country toward a constitutional and political vacuum by not holding three elections by January 2018.
Rapti river continues eroding roads
- by Tekendra Basyal
KOHOLPUR, Aug 11: The Rapti river has continued eroding roads in Phattepur Village Development Committee (VDC) of Banke district forcing six villages to remain out of transportation service.
EC proposes mandatory one-third women representatives
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Aug 11: The Election Commission has proposed a provision making it mandatory to elect at least one-third women representatives to the House of Representatives as well as the provincial assemblies.
Provide prisoners ample food, allowances: SC
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Aug 11: The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued mandamus order to the government to provide ample food ration and other allowances to prisoners.
Nepal losing opportunity to turn bilateral trade in its favor
- by Raju Adhikari
JHAPA, Aug 11: Nepal is losing an opportunity to turn bilateral trade with Bangladesh in its favor with each passing year.
Pre-schools are under 2 govt ministries, causing confusion
- by Bishnu Prasad Aryal
KATHMANDU, Aug 11: Montessori schools in the country, also known as pre-schools, are operating in a state of legal confusion as they fall under the jurisdiction of two different government ministries.
Mechi bridge construction delay upsets locals
- by Raju Adhikari
JHAPA, Aug 11: While laying the foundation of Mechi bridge in Bhadrapur of Jhapa district seven years ago, the then Minister for Physical Planning and Infrastructure Bijaya Kumar Gachchhadar had declared that he would either complete the construction of the bridge within three years or leave politics.
Urgent need
- by Republica
The statistics of schools damaged by devastating earthquakes of April and May 2015 is staggering. According to Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) report 8,242 schools were damaged by earthquakes. But even after one and half years of devastation hardly any of these schools have been rebuilt, forcing millions of school-goers to study under flimsy tents or the makeshift shelters made of zinc sheets.
Govt to send team to China to seek out rhino habitat
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Aug 11: The government has decided to send a team of experts to China to find suitable habitat for Nepali one-horned rhinos, which Nepal has decided to gift to China.
Geopolitics of poverty
- by Trailokya Raj Aryal
Of course, we have a lot to blame ourselves for endemic poverty but could it be that we are poor because our neighbors want us poor and dependent?
The fairness delusion
- by Dr Aruna Uprety
Many young girls think if they use creams as shown in ads by cine stars, their face will be as white as theirs. They are wrong.
PM pledges to seek common understanding on local bodies
- by Sangeet Sangroula
KATHMANDU, Aug 11: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has pledged to forge a common understanding among major political forces on the number of local bodies and criteria for restructuring them, and provide it to the commission formed to fix the number and boundaries of local bodies within a week.
Populism, past and present
- by Shlomo Ben-Ami
Europe is not alone in being swept up by populism. The US is also in serious danger
Fear of landslide keeps locals awake
- by Suman Malla
MUGU, August 11: Rupa Rokaya is unable to sleep these days, thanks to the fear of landslides that has gripped her family. Massive rocks and mud have been sliding down from the settlements below her house while road and land above her house have sustained many cracks. “As the monsoon continues, it is just a matter of time before landslides sweep us away,” said Rokaya, a local of Nigale village in Srinagar VDC-9, Mugu district.
Honda BR-V vrooms its way into Nepal
- by Republica
KATHMANDU, Aug 11: Japanese carmaker Honda has launched a new four-wheeler BR-V, or Bold-Runabout Vehicle (BR-V), in the Nepali market.
1003 civil servants fined for not furnishing property details
- by Republica
KATHMADU, Aug 10: The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) on Wednesday has decided to fine 1,003 civil servants for not furnishing their property details of the fiscal year 2015/16 within the given deadline.