Pritam Bhattarai / Kathmandu: Around three weeks ago, 18-months old girl named Urmila Tamang drowned in a pit dug while making bricks for a brick factory at Sunapa in Bhaktapur. The incident took place in the area leased by the owner of the brick factory for which Tamang’s parents are working as brick-maker. This is […]
Deepraj Sanyal / Kathmandu: The civil war that plagued the country for a decade since February 1996 had impacted almost all sectors of the national life, and journalism was no exception. Many journalists got caught up in the vortex of the conflict and got killed in the line of duty. Many more were injured and […]
Narayan Prasad Ghimire / Kathmandu: The constitution amendment bill has been stuck at the Legislature-Parliament for the past two weeks. The major opposition, CPN-UML, along with some fringe parties, have been obstructing the parliament business arguing that the bill has jeopardized the geographical unity and integrity by hiving off some hill districts from the province […]
Deepraj Sanyal / Kathmandu: The country is observing the International Migrants Day, which falls on 18 of this month, for a week around the theme – ‘Commitment for Safe Foreign Employment: Solidarity of Us All.’ The Ministry of Labour and Employment announced in a news conference Monday that the Day would be marked for a […]
Manoj Karki / Kathmandu: The entire country felt a sigh of relief when government representatives finally gave in to the just demands of Dr Govinda KC and forged an agreement with him (for the tenth time, of course) to break his latest round of fast-unto-death. But everyone who have watched this ‘cat and mouse’ race […]
Pritam Bhattarai / Kathmandu: Recently the Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) merged with Rastriya Prajatantra Party Nepal (RPP-N). The two parties felt it necessary to unite after a decade of split. Most importantly, one of the surprising factors is that the unified Rastriya Prajatantra Party has put on hold the issue of ceremonial monarchy, an agenda […]
Manoj Karki / Kathmandu: Doling out cash from the state coffers accumulated with the tax payers’ money to party leaders and cadres continues to remain a norm for every leadership that runs the government in one of the poorest countries in the world, i.e. Nepal. It no longer remains a secret in today’s digitalized world […]
Kathmandu: Enrolling seniors in elderly care homes is often taken as a negative act and can be considered as negligence from family members in Nepal. However, Siddhi Shaligram Senior Citizen Home of Bhaktapur has been challenging the stereotype and providing good care to the needy elderly people. Due to lack of awareness among the public […]
Pritam Bhattarai / Kathmandu: Like every government of the past, the present government too began with a pledge to carry out reforms in the foreign employment sector. One of the pledges made by the government was to rescue migrant workers stranded and languishing in various jails in different destination countries. However, anything substantial is yet […]
Narayan Prasad Ghimire / Kathmandu: Good governance remains a long quest in Nepal. Commitment from political parties to bureaucracy and civil society for building good governance is therefore commonplace, and so are the discussion and debates on various tools contributing to this. In connection with the First International Day to Universal Access to Information, the […]
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