Understanding intersex challenges: Expanding policy and legal avenues In the pride spectrum, ‘intersex’ individuals are often overlooked. Opinion 07 Oct, 2024
Embassy team in Portugal to provide consular services The embassy team is scheduled to arrive in Lisbon on August 29, according to Sudhir Bhattarai, Non-Resident Nepali Ambassador to Portugal and Nepali Ambassador to France. Nepal 24 Aug, 2024
Norway considers halting overseas adoptions as Denmark's only international agency winds down work A majority of the children adopted in Norway come from South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the Philippines and Colombia, according to national statistics. World 16 Jan, 2024
EDITORIAL: Welcome verdict In a welcome verdict, the Supreme Court (SC) has decided that sex with an underage girl would not constitute rape if the boy and girl were married. Opinion 07 Aug, 2023
Birth registration laws need amendment Nepal has pledged to secure 100 per cent birth and death registration by 2024, but it is unlikely to meet this target. Nepal 21 Apr, 2023
Govt starts vaccinating teenagers below 18 Health authorities today started vaccinating children above 12 years of age and teenagers below 18 years, using Pfizer vaccine in 24 hospitals across the country. Nepal 22 Nov, 2021
EDITORIAL: Efficacy of ordinance President Bidhya Devi Bhandari issued an ordinance to amend the Nepal Citizenship Act on May 23 so as to enable two categories of people – children born to citizens by birth and children of Nepali mothers whose fathers cannot be traced – to obtain Nepali Citizenship Certificates from the district administration offices (DAOs) without bureaucratic hassles Opinion 11 Jun, 2021
US births fall, and virus could drive them down more NEW YORK: US births continued to fall last year, leading to the fewest number of newborns in 35 years. The decline is the latest sign of a prolonged national “baby bust” that's been going on for more than a decade. And some experts believe the... Environment 20 May, 2020
Muskan Khatun's attackers sent to juvenile correction home BIRGUNJ: District Court, Parsa has sent the main culprits who carried out an acid attack on Muskan Khatun of Birgunj Metropolitan City to a juvenile correction home in Birta. A single bench of chief judge Prakash Kharel decided to send Shamshad... Travel 18 Oct, 2019
As they build India's first camp for illegals, some workers fear detention there GOALPARA, INDIA: Across a river in a remote part of India's northeast, labourers have cleared dense forest in an area equivalent to about seven soccer fields and are building the first mass detention centre for illegal immigrants. The camp in the... Women 08 Sep, 2019
81 migrant children separated from families since June WASHINGTON: The Trump administration separated 81 migrant children from their families at the US-Mexico border since the June executive order that stopped the general practice amid a crackdown on illegal crossings, according to data provided by the... Women 06 Dec, 2018
In India's citizenship test, a spelling error can ruin a family DHUBRI: Riyazul Islam says he had to produce family documents going back to 1951 to prove he was an Indian and not an illegal Bangladeshi immigrant. But a draft list of citizens released in July excluded him and his mother, among a total of about 4...
