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Discipline and dedication

Discipline and dedication can get us anywhere in the world. As a result, one can achieve anything in the world with them.

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Improving literacy

Improving literacy is crucial for children to succeed academically and enhance their life opportunities.

Democracy on dozer

Over the past few weeks, we heard reverberations of thunderous polemics on Indian TV, culminating in the daylight assassination of political gangsters at a hospital precinct.

Human capital

The last few years have ushered in a harsh new reality where crises are the norm rather than the exception. Pandemics, economic slumps and extreme weather events were once tail-end risks, but all three have hit South Asia in rapid succession since 2020.

"Natural disaster"

The phrase ‘natural disaster’ is used in the news, in social media, and in everyday conversations to describe extreme events like hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, or volcanoes.

Spend capital budget in time

78 microfinance victims killed themselves in two years

Light in the darkness

Poverty line

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Conflict and employment

The emergence of new conflicts, together with the increasing duration of existing displacement crises, implies that forced displacement is set to increase.

Rescuers scour the crash site in the wreckage of a passenger plane in Pokhara, Nepal, Monday, January 16, 2023. File Photo: AP

Frequent plane crashes

On the 15th of January, on Maghe Sankranti, a passenger plane carrying 72 people crashed near the newly inaugurated Pokhara International Airport.

Health and sanitation

A sanitation campaign in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic reveals that reducing open defecation has unexpected benefits across households and communities.

PRIA and Indian media

The initial enthusiasm for PRIA seems to have petered out. We have forgotten GBIA completely. With Kuwait’s Jazeera and Nepal-born Himalaya pulling out the few flights citing worsening weather, the writings are writ large on the walls and skies. It faces existential questions.

Behavioural science

Behavioral insights offer effective tools to come up with innovative solutions to address people’s behavior and biases regarding climate change.

Food export: Learn from Ukraine

Embattled Ukraine, braving rains of missiles, exports grains to Africa to save its impoverished people from hunger and starvation. Ukraine’s president magnanimously declared that he would not allow people to die of hunger when Russia tried to throw a spanner on export from the Black Sea.

The world at your doorstep

We, humans, are accustomed to do one thing as soon as we wake up and get up: swing the curtains wide open and check the weather prospects, intuitively wishing them to fit in our expectations.

A tale of billy goats

From travelling on the front seat of a Mahindra jeep to the roof of a Sherpa jeep, the ill-fated billy goat was destined to find himself on the belly of so many people upon being slayed. But little did the poor soul know about people’s insatiable craving for meat.

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Work-based training

To make it easier for companies to participate in work-based training, governments need to mandate, fund, and train institutions to provide such services.

School vs leisure

School, what a word! Just utter, visualise or think of it, and most certainly, it usually evokes a great place to learn new and wise things.

Do not only tax consumption

There are three things that matter in particular when it comes to increasing the tax revenues of the least developed and developing countries. Taxes should be progressive, levies to fund social protection are needed, and illicit financial flows must be reduced.

Islamic finance

Addressing the climate emergency will require all the funding possible from as many diverse sources as possible.

You, space and time

Here you are the observer, whereas time is the surrounding, and space is what you are storing inside. Anything you do in life creates reactions in the mass.

Photo: Skanda Gautam/ THT

No place called home

The term “Sukumbasi” does not directly translate to homelessness; however, it is often used pejoratively for “people living in slums”. In general terms, homelessness is a growing problem in Nepal. With the country’s population increasing and its economy struggling, more and more people are being forced to be homeless.

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Sevilla's team captains Ivan Rakitic, center, and Jesus Navas, center right, lift the trophy after winning the Europa League final soccer match between Sevilla and Roma, at the Puskas Arena in Budapest, Hungary. Photo: AP

Sevilla ends unusually poor season celebrating yet another Europa League title

It was the usual ending for Sevilla in an unusual season for the Spanish soccer club.

Serbia's Novak Djokovic plays a shot against Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics during their second round match of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium in Paris. Photo: AP

What was that thing on Djokovic's chest at the French Open? He jokes it's connected to Iron Man

Nothing out of the ordinary there, especially after a set that lasted 1 1/2 hours.

Jordan's Crown Prince Hussein and Saudi Rajwa Alseif wave to well-wishers during their wedding ceremonies in Amman, Jordan. Photo: AP

Jordan's crown prince weds scion of Saudi family in ceremony packed with stars and symbolism

Both Alseif and Kate wore gowns by the Lebanese designer Elie Saab, said a spokeswoman for the company, Maryline Mossino.

PSG's Lionel Messi kicks the ball during the French League One soccer match between Strasbourg and Paris Saint Germain at Stade de la Meinau stadium in Strasbourg, France. Photo: AP

Coach confirms Lionel Messi's last match for PSG this weekend

The soccer superstar will leave the team on Saturday not quite so revered.

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Luis Stitzinger's body airlifted to Kathmandu from Mt Kanchenjunga

Body of German climber Luis Stitzinger has been airlifted to Kathmandu from Mt Kanchenjunga, expedition organiser said.

Saudi Arabia on Thursday executed a Nepali national after his conviction for stabbing a Saudi to death.

Saudi Arabia executes Nepal man after conviction for stabbing Saudi to death

Saudi Arabia on Thursday executed a Nepali national after his conviction for stabbing a Saudi to death.

Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi, right, pose for the media before their meeting in New Delhi, India. Photo: AP

India, Nepal prime ministers meet to deepen ties as China's influence grows in region

Landlocked Nepal, however, remains dependent on India for all its oil needs and many other necessities.

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Japanese Technical Cooperation Programs: Training Nepali Government Specialists for the Future of Nepal

The Embassy of Japan in Nepal and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Nepal have agreed to extend the Technical Cooperation Programs for Fiscal Year 2023.

FILE - A view of Arun river in Namu VDC-4 of Shankhuwasabha district on Saturday, December 24, 2016. Photo: RSS

Satluj Company to construct Lower Arun hydropower project

Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam, a hydropower producing company of India, is to construct the Lower Arun hydropower project in Nepal.

The photo shows the newly inaugurated Amlekhgunj-based oil depot of Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC). Photo: Puspa Raj Khatiwada/THT

Two petroleum pipelines to be constructed for smooth supply of petroleum products

An agreement has been reached between Nepal and India for the construction of two important pipelines in the ongoing India visit of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal.

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PM's India visit: New Butwal-Gorakhpur Transmission Line launched

New Butwal-Gorakhapur Transnational Transmission Line which has been considered an important power trade project between Nepal and India has been formally launched.

PM Dahal, his Indian counterpart Modi jointly inaugurate railway

Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi jointly inaugurated the railway from Bathnaha (India) to Budhnagar (Nepal) today.

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