Safety of minors while driving: Include special child seats in cars Families who can afford to buy a new car should be prompted and ultimately obliged to ensure that their children are using proper seat restrainers or booster seats
Evidence-based policy-making in Nepal: A driver of better implementation Rather than the pre-defined architect of policy or only the expert’s/experienced person’s opinion and beliefs and/or personal bias, evidence–based policies seem self-evident, and hence, these designs differ when the evidence-based policy is underpinned.
EDITORIAL: Prez poll date The Election Commission (EC) has fixed March 9 and March 17 as the dates for holding the elections of the president and vice-president respectively after consulting Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal.
Self-immolation in broad daylight: Aimed at the government's failure The self-immolation by Prem Prasad Acharya Santosh in front of the Parliament building in broad daylight has sent a chill up the spine of the country in the midst of a rather cold winter weather.
EDITORIAL: Don't undermine RTI The government’s decision to classify 87 kinds of information as confidential, and thus requiring them to be kept secret, has met with resistance from media organisations and forums working for the right to information, or RTI.
Conflict of interest: Taken for granted in Nepal KATHMANDU, JANUARY 29One of the national pride projects, the Sikta irrigation project, was initiated in fiscal year 2005-2006 and was supposed to be completed by 2014-2015.This Rs. 12.8...
Nepal's commercial banks: Unfair competition, syndicate and conflict of interest Banks and financial institutions (BFIs) are the intermediaries of the financial system to bridge savers and investors and efficiently allocate the risks and returns between them. The lending source is primarily public deposit, which they should return upon demand.
Nepal-India relations: Time to redefine it In ancient times, today’s modern India or Nepal did not exist. In the ancient texts of Hindu religion, the Purana, Ramayana and Mahabharata, there are countless cases of plotsand characters within the borders of what is today Nepal and India.
Telecom service disrupted in quake epicentre Bichhyan An earthquake with its epicentre somewhere near Bichhyan of Himali Rural Municipality, Bajura, hit the area yesterday afternoon.
Patriarchy: How it threatens the very existence of life on earth Men’s greater physical strength might have played some role in male dominance in technologically-primitive hunter-gatherer societies, but patriarchy as a natural or god-given phenomenon can’t be true. Shulamith Firestone, a Canadian-American radical feminist writer and activist, therefore, defines patriarchy as a system of oppression of women.
Patriarchy: How it threatens the very existence of life on earth Men’s greater physical strength might have played some role in male dominance in technologically-primitive hunter-gatherer societies, but patriarchy as a natural or god-given phenomenon can’t be true. Shulamith Firestone, a Canadian-American radical feminist writer and activist, therefore, defines patriarchy as a system of oppression of women.
EDITORIAL: Give SMEs a boost Nepal’s ever dwindling exports, now reduced to just about half a billion dollars, speak volumes about our inability to foray into the international markets to sell our products, whether agricultural, industrial or handicrafts.
The anger conundrum: Its crux, essence and physiology While it is agreed that our anger and/or frustrations are caused by valid and unavoidable problems in our lives, not all anger is misplaced
Parliament sans opposition: It happen only in Nepal The second meeting of the recently constituted House of Representatives (HoR), held on January 10, delivered a unique scene. Prime Minister (PM) Pushpa Kamal Dahal, whose party holds 32 seats in the 275-member HoR, had sought the vote of confidence.
World Amid soaring crime, Memphis cops lowered the bar for hiring Amid soaring crime, Memphis cops lowered the bar for hiring
Business Tea worth Rs 38 million exported In Nepal, a total of 68 large-scale tea industries including 38 CTC and 30 orthodox tea producing industries are in operation.
Kathmandu Public holidays need to be reviewed: PM Dahal "We have also discussed in the Council of Ministers that this needs to be reviewed,” PM said.
Sports Australia T20 skipper Finch quits international cricket Aaron Finch has retired from all international cricket after leading Australia in a record 76 games as captain of the Twenty20 squad.
World A glance at the world's deadliest quakes in past 25 years A magnitude 7.8 earthquake shook Turkey and Syria on Monday, killing thousands of people in the two countries.
World UPDATE: Quake deaths pass 5,000 as Turkey, Syria seek survivors Rescuers raced Tuesday to find survivors in the rubble of thousands of buildings brought down by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake and multiple aftershocks that struck eastern Turkey and neighboring Syria, with the discovery of more bodies raising the death toll to more than 5,000.
Business Asian Paints launches SmartCare Hydroloc Understanding the need for a solution to combat efflorescence (nuniya) for the customers, Asian Paints Nepal has launched SmartCare Hydroloc in the market.
Nepal Lumbini provincial cabinet yet to get full shape It has been nearly a month since the Lumbini provincial government was formed but the cabinet is yet to get full shape.
Nepal Fight against cancer The pandemic has put a spotlight on health system resilience around the world. Demands on health care provision have skyrocketed in record time and brought some health care systems to the brink of collapse.
Nepal Lil' habits under control Here is a simple fact regarding our environs: we cannot control everything. The more we think of it, the more appalled we might feel to discover that the things we cannot control are way trickier than what we might have previously figured out. If a State cannot perceptibly control such things that often appear easily controllable, it’s not for an ‘activist’ to take the baton, either.
Opinion Museums: Their sustainability and well-being A museum is normally a venue or a place which looks after and exhibits, permanently or temporarily, a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical or scientific importance. It preserves and promotes our cultural heritage and acts as a good source of entertainment and information for researchers.
Opinion Ministerial responsibility versus party ideology: Need to maintain decorum The seven-party coalition led by the Maoist Centre (MC) has landed in an uneasy political soup.