KATHMANDU, March 16: While unemployment is increasing in the country, there is a growing interest in startups among the youth. Young people are drawn to startups as they can avail loans at concessional rates to initiate ventures.

MORANG, Feb 26: Police have arrested three youths who came through the Jogbani border crossing in Biratnagar with brown sugar. They were arrested with the drugs on Monday morning from Biratnagar Metropolitan City-13.

KATHMANDU, Dec 28: Ayush Sharma (name changed), a young man from Chabahil, Kathmandu, first tried vaping (e-cigarettes) two years ago with a friend and quickly developed an addiction. Now a regular user, he admitted, "In the beginning, I was drawn in for the taste, and now it's a habit."

In a recent meeting, I once again realized the constraints that young persons living with physical disabilities face in daily life. The common perception is that the vast majority of these youths struggle for survival. Lacking jobs and quality education not only due to inaccessible schools but also due to a system that does not recognize their specific needs, these youths are left behind by society.

KAMALAMAI, Aug 27: Bharat Kafle of Harshahi in Dudhauli Municipality-6 in Sindhuli can be a vivid example for many people for he has chosen to stay back home to do something good, and his hard work is paying off. His motivation to toil back in the home country comes at a time when youth in particular are flying in hordes to foreign countries in search of better opportunities.

Why are youths leaving the country? I asked the question to a class of pre-diploma level students in Saraswati Higher Secondary in Ghorahi, Dang.The answer was spontaneous and unanimous – because there are no opportunities in the country. I wasn’t surprised by the response as it has been the popular narrative in the country.

BUTWAL, June 4: Two youths died in a road accident that took place on Saturday in Tamnagar, Butwal sub-metropolitan city-12 along the East-West Highway.

KATHMANDU, March 22: National Assembly member Bimala Rai Paudyal has demanded the government's response to the police gagging youths who chanted slogans against the prime minister.

KATHMANDU, Feb 22: In the first seven months of the current fiscal year 2022/23, nearly 500,000 youths have gone abroad for foreign employment.

It seems the issue of squatters in Thapathali is less likely to be resolved any time soon. In this context Republica’s Sajira Shrestha talked to youths in Kathmandu Valley to know their opinion about the solution of this problem. Excerpts:

KATHMANDU, Dec 8: Every day, nearly 3000 young people go abroad for foreign employment, according to the Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE). The number of Nepali youths going for foreign employment has been on the rise in recent times.

‘RSP should not join the govt’

December 2, 2022 11:40 am

The newly-formed Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) has taken the country by surprise with its success in posing a stiff competition to the old political parties. Youths around the country are expressing happiness over the victory of the new party formed by former journalist Rabi Lamichhane. The party is set to be the fourth largest party in parliament as it has already secured seven seats under the FPTP electoral system and currently maintains lead as the fourth largest party under the Proportional Representation(PR) electoral system. Republica talked to youths in the Kathmandu Valley to know what they think should be the immediate priorities of RSP. Excerpts:

DODHARA CHANDANI, Nov 3: Lakshman Chaudhary, a resident of Laljhadi Rural Municipality-3 in Kanchanpur, was found at the Gaddachauki checkpoint on Wednesday evening.

KATHMANDU, August 15: The garbage in Baneshwar of Kathmandu has been picked up by the Youth Association Nepal, a sister organization of CPN-UML. On Monday, the garbage piled up on the streets of Baneshwar was picked up by the youth association.

Four youths arrested along with drugs

January 1, 2022 13:15 pm

KATHMANDU, Jan 1: Police arrested four youths in possession of drugs last night. The arrested are Shatrudhan Mukhiya, 27, of Ramgopalpur Municipality-6, Mahottari District, Birendra Mukhiya, 17, of Lalbandi Municipality-4, Sarlahi District, Suresh Mukhiya, 18, and Suman Shrestha, 14, of Barahathawa Municipality-7, according to Prakash Bista, Deputy Superintendent of Police.

The crux of the COVID-19 employment impact lies in underemployment, which globally has contributed more to estimated job losses (in work hours) than unemployment and whose impact is potentially longer term. Given our pre-existing problem of underemployment, especially among youth in the 25-39 age group, this represents an unprecedented employment challenge considering that we are right in the middle of our demographic dividend.

DHADING, June 7: Arjun Shrestha, a 24-year-old male from Gujuri Rural Municipality-7 of Dhading, who went missing on June 3, was found dead on Monday.

KATHMANDU, June 6: Dozens of celebrities, national figures and Nepali nationals across the globe have come together to join hands with ‘Save Nepal Global Alliance’ to support Nepal to battle the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

What are Nepali youth thinking?

May 16, 2021 10:23 am

The findings of the survey paint a rather somber picture.  Of the 2,000 youth surveyed between 18 to 40 years of age, only around a third (34%) believe that the country is headed in the right direction. This is significantly less than a 2018 National Governance Survey that found 80 percent of respondents between 18 to 39 years of age considered the country to be heading in the right direction.

KATHMANDU, May 2: Chyasal Youth Club of Lalitpur has set up an isolation facility for COVID-19 patients.

KATHMANDU, April 29: The coronavirus infection in Nepal last year had made the elderly and the chronically-ill people more vulnerable, resulting in a large number of deaths in the same groups. However, the current wave of COVID-19 has affected the healthy youths as well. Doctors involved in the treatment of the patients have pointed out that the death rate of even the youths has increased.

Citizen engagement in PFM is to mobilize the efforts made by the people at grassroots level and channeling their limited resources responsibly.

Political Space for Youths

April 17, 2021 07:00 am

The political space for youths is going to contract further in South Asia including Nepal until and unless the senior leaders voluntarily give the youths the chance to lead.

The participants of the symbolic protests drew attention of the government to immediately implement the Kathmandu Valley Air Quality Management Action Plan-2020

South Asia is particularly vulnerable to road-related accidents where frequent road users such as motorcyclists, cyclists, pedestrians, and public transport users are killed in road crashes more than in any other region of the world.

Labor migration is not safe for innocent Nepali migrant workers. The government should ensure that every single Nepali worker in foreign land is paid decent salary and treated with dignity.

KATHMANDU, Jan 8: Had it not been the COVID-19 pandemic, Kusum Panta, an undergraduate student at Golden Gate International College, would have already graduated with a Bachelor degree in Arts around this time. She would have then been following in the footsteps of her parents attending the long-awaited Public Service Commission (PSC) examinations.

KATHMANDU, Oct 17: The Kathmandu Valley has witnessed the highest number of COVID-19 infected people aged between 21 to 40 years old.

65 percent of COVID-19 patients in the province are from the 21 to 40 years age group

Youth awakening

June 23, 2020 17:10 pm

Mao once said a revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture or doing an embroidery.

KATHMANDU, June 12: Anti-government demonstrations continued in the Kathmandu Valley on Friday as well.

KATHMANDU, June 11: Young people in huge numbers were protesting peacefully at Naxal in Kathmandu, demanding transparency and accountability from the Oli-led government but the Nepal Police used force to disperse the crowd today.

KATHMANDU, Feb 14: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said that the disciplined and dedicated youths can play significant role to the nation building process.

Youths should propel positive thinking

August 17, 2019 15:08 pm

BIRATNAGAR, Aug 17: Chief Minister of State-1 Sherdhan Rai has noted that the youths should join hands in nation-building campaign with positive thinking.

LALITPUR, Aug 10: Minister for Youth and Sports Jagat Bahadur Bishwakarma has urged all youths to join hands in national building campaign after realizing their responsibility.

KATHMANDU, Aug 2: The government has provided employment to nearly 175,909 people through 6,864 projects across the country run by various local units under the Prime Minister Employment Program in Fiscal Year 2018/19.

KATHMANDU, June 9: Only six youths have received subsidized loans so far for self-employment under the much-hyped scheme introduced by the government to give loans to educated youths against the collateral of their academic certificate.

KATHMANDU, June 8: The government has rolled back its plan of employing all youths by Fiscal Year 2022/23, as per the recently announced budget and programs for Fiscal Year 2019/20.

KATHMANDU, May 14: The government has planned to provide short-term employment to 100 thousand youths by the end of current fiscal year.

JAJARKOT, April 4: Youths of Jajarkot have decided to join hands to support the victims of Province 2, who have been rendered homeless due to the deadly thunderstorm of Sunday. The said they decided to help their neighbors during this hour of need.

KATHMANDU, March 15: At least 7,144 people committed suicide across the country, 57% of which were youth, according to Nepal Police data of the past 16 months.

KATHMANDU, Feb 17: Protesters have gathered at Maitighar Mandala to express their solidarity to folk singer Pashupati Sharma, who was forced to remove his new song title ‘Lootna Sake Loot” from Youtube following the threat from the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP).

Youths more vulnerable to cyber crimes

February 3, 2019 14:05 pm

KATHMANDU, Feb 3: The Metropolitan Crime Division of Nepal Police received 926 complaints relating to cyber crime to date in the current fiscal year. The cyber crimes are the criminal activities carried out with the use of computers and the internet.

KATHMANDU, Dec 28: The fourth edition of the Global Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, which was held last week in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 17 to 20 December, brought together 150 youngsters from 40 different countries along with a dozen entrepreneurs and experts as mentors to create an environment for innovation.

ACHHAM, Dec 12: A teenage girl has become the victim of rape in Achham even as the 16-day campaign against violence against women was in progress.

KATHMANDU, Sept 28: Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has unveiled unified working procedure related to interest subsidy for concessional loans, paving the way for unemployed educated youths, returnee migrant workers, women entrepreneurs, Dalits and earthquake victims, among other targeted groups, to borrow money from bank and financial institutions at cheaper interest rates.

KATHMANDU, Aug 4: An independent group of youths from Dolpa district has vented their ire against the plan of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) to field senior leader Bam Dev Gautam in a re-poll after forcing the elected lawmaker from the district Dhan Bahadur Budha to resign.

KATHMANDU, Aug 1: The National Youth Council (NYC) has proposed to revise the existing age range for youth stipulated in the NYC Act-2072.

PALPA, July 10: Bagnaskali rural municipality of Palpa has started to provide loans to promote self employment in agriculture and animal husbandry after youths present their education certificates as collateral.

Youths can change

June 16, 2018 00:45 am

We need education system that instills curiosity among students and inspires them to move forward.