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 […]
Pradip Nepal is a renowned name in the field of politics and literature. He has been involved in both fields for more than four and a half decades and succeeded in both. He is very popular for his straightforward views. However, it is said that he has not got the position he rightly deserves in […]
Manoj Karki / Kathmandu: If news reports as of this hour are anything to go by, the CPN (Maoist Centre) that is presently leading the government in Nepal will not have a female member representative in the present Council of Ministers. Nominal presence of women in Nepal’s cabinet is nothing new. But when a party […]
Kathmandu: The President of Tanzania John Magufuli cancelled a lavish independence-day celebration program and diverted the budget of $1.9 m to expanding a congested road and street cleaning, replacing the Independence Day celebrations with a National Day of Cleanliness during which he collected rubbish himself. Magufuli scaled down the inauguration of the new parliament, channelling […]
Manoj Karki / Kathmandu: Like Nepal, Bhutan too is a landlocked country squeezed between two giant neighbours —China and India. However, unlike Nepal, Bhutan has not had any issue of doing the balancing act between the two emerging economies. Bhutan has also not suffered like Nepal for becoming too close or distant with any of […]
Kathmandu: Mr. Pradeep Gangol is an energy and management professional with over 25 years of experience in the sector in different capacities. He has experience in managing energy related organizations and projects in hydropower development and financing and rural electrification. Also he has experience in liaison with donors, government agencies, the private sector and non-governmental […]
Kathmandu: The government recently hiked the salaries of civil servants by 25 percent, which brought happiness to them, but the question is whether the increased salary will bring efficiency in the civil servants. Civil Servants are considered as ‘a permanent government’ in all countries and they play an important role in running the country but […]
Krishna Upadhyaya is a human rights, labour rights and development professional and researcher. He holds MA in Human Rights from Mahidol and Phd from University of London. He has worked in many national and international organizations in senior positions. In 2014, he was arrested by Qatari authorities while conducting research about poor living conditions of Nepalese […]
Kathmandu: For many it looks unbelievable that a trafficked woman could lead a social movement in a closed society like Nepal but Sunita Danuwar broke all social barriers and has been able to become a role model for many people across the globe. Danuwar became a sex-slave at the age of 14 but now she […]
Kathmandu: Recently social media was abuzz with debate in favor and against the recent statements of Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli. Although his statements look very ambitious at a time when people are facing problems of hand to mouth but these are not unrealistic dreams and this is the time to think big and act […]
