SINGAPORE, Aug 4:U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Saturday the process of ending North Korea’s nuclear program would take time but he was optimistic that it would be done within a timeline set by the leaders of the two countries.

KATHMANDU, July 7: Home Minister Ram Bahadur Thapa on Saturday stressed the need for wiping out syndicate in sports. "Syndicate in any form is not acceptable," he said at a programme organized here by the Nepal Magar Sports Association to honor Magar athletes.

KATHMANDU, June 5: Alarmingly, Kathmandu valley consumes between 4,700,000 to 4,800,000 plastic bags daily.  On average, 100 million plastic bags are consumed in a month in the Kathmandu valley alone.

BIRATNAGAR, June 1: Minister for Home Affairs, Ram Bahadur Thapa said the country's economic growth rate would touch an eight percent next year.

Call for ending child labor by 2025

April 27, 2018 19:05 pm

KATHMANDU, April 27: Assistant Director General and ILO Regional Director for Asia and the Pacific Tomoko Nishimoto says ILO marks the World Day for Safety and Health at Work (SafeDay) and the World Day against Child Labour (WDACL) together this year to improve safety and health of young workers in a bid to end all forms of child labour by 2025.

KATHMANDU, Jan 30: The National Sports Council (NSC) Member Secretary Keshav Kumar Bista on Monday claimed that the long-running dispute in Nepali cricket is likely to be resolved soon saying that their talks with the representatives of the International Cricket Council (ICC) has made significant progress following the ICC members arrival in Kathmandu on Saturday.

BIRATNAGAR, Nov 6 : Stakeholders have stressed the need for the government to become serious to stop ongoing incidents of violence and murder against journalists.  While acknowledging the important role of the free press in taking democracy at the doors of the people, they viewed that impartial, balanced, and objective news can be disseminated only when the government becomes serious in ending violence against journalists. They were speaking at a programme organised with the theme of 'end impunity relating to violence against journalists' on Sunday in Biratnagar by Freedom Forum and the Federation of Nepali Journalists, Morang.

DUISBURG, July 26: The deportation of a 15-year-old German-born girl to Nepal earlier this year caused an uproar. Now the girl and her parents have received visas to return to Germany after her classmates and local officials intervened.

BANEPA, July 13: The participation of a two-day interaction program on 'national communications policy and implementation' discussed the model of the mass communications policy and the Ministry of Information and Mass Communications in a federal setup.

To a movie-script ending

June 3, 2017 13:02 pm

Life is full of ups and downs, turns and twists, times of sorrow and times of bliss. And, uncertainty is what makes life beautiful and worth living. But there’s nothing more beautiful than a fulfilling relationship. The real beauty and joy of life lies in how beautifully we fulfill our responsibilities in a relationship.

Ending poverty

April 24, 2017 00:15 am

The cost of eradicating poverty appears to be somewhat less than $100 billion actual dollars

SIRAHA, March 31: One-and-a-half-year old Chandrika Sada is nagging her sister for food. Gudiya, Chandrika's elder sister is forcing water in her mouth. The water fetched from a well is dirty and stinking. The toddler again asks for food, but her sister keeps pouring water again. After a while, Chandrika stops crying.

LONDON, Jan 19: Manchester United is a long way from winning the English Premier League again but is back on top of another table — as soccer's biggest moneymaker.

KATHMANDU, Dec 27: Political parties have floated their own proposals to end the House deadlock during a meeting summoned by Speaker Onsari Gharti on Monday.

KATHMANDU, Nov 27: CPN-UML Chair KP Sharma Oli has pressed for putting an end to transition before springing into constitution amendment.

Love story: the same ending

November 16, 2016 10:41 am

Every love story is interesting; the way it starts, the first meetings, the nervousness, wanting to know more about the other person, the chase, the proposal and those forever notes.

KATHMANDU, Sept 27: Some four months since the imposition of a ban on the employment of Nepali migrant workers in four conflict-ravaged countries, the government is making final preparations to allow security guards to work in those countries under stringent security-related conditions.

KATHMANDU, July 22: Nepali Congress (NC) leader Ram Chandra Paudel has floated a new proposal for ending the ongoing dispute over the process of electing a new government.

Is there a perfect ending?

July 13, 2016 07:01 am

It is always nice to come across people who take the next step in their life after being in love for a while. They love the moment when they tie the knot and nothing could be more special to them. These are the lucky ones as they enjoy an amazing moment each day of them being together. But, perfection is an understatement. I have met a lot of people who complain that something is missing in their life. At times it is the incompatibility with people in their family. Or maybe it could be the thought of taking the other person for granted.