Here's what you need to know about the world's largest democratic election kicking off in India The world’s largest democratic election could also be one of its most consequential. World 01 Apr, 2024
Rich countries attain record human development, but half of the poorest have gone backwards, finds UN Development Programme Uneven development progress is leaving the poorest behind, exacerbating inequality, and stoking political polarization on a global scale. Nepal 15 Mar, 2024
Mounting inequality-led global crisis: Time to consider wealth tax The income and wealth inequality-led crisis is one of the biggest challenges of our time. Opinion 24 Jul, 2023
Nepal slightly improves in HDI ranking: UNDP report Nepal has improved its ranking from 144th to 143th position, although the Human Development Index (HDI) value has marginally declined from 0.604 to 0.602 due to continued turbulence caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) said in a report. Kathmandu 13 Sep, 2022
Gender equality: Heading towards right direction Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 aims at achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls through effective participation in social, political and economic development. Opinion 01 Sep, 2022
35pc Bajura people living in extreme poverty Bajura district has plunged into poverty due to floods and other natural disasters every year. Due to these natural calamities, the district is facing serious threat of starvation. Nepal 01 May, 2022
Towards a new social contract: To build better communities With the final draft of the national volunteering policy being finalised, the country has a unique opportunity to elevate volunteerism to the next level, leveraging it to fully achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Opinion 23 Mar, 2021
Nepal for implementing Paris Agreement, says Gyawali KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 17 Nepal strongly supports implementation of the Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change, and the call to limit global warming to 1.5-degree Celsius, says Minister of Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar... Horoscopes 18 Dec, 2020
World Children�s Day: Reflecting on its meaning Human development is fundamentally centered on the equal advancements in two particular areas, education and health, both determinants of a child’s material and emotional well-being. Without ensuring their universal rights to both education and... 23 Nov, 2020
Global human development on course to decline this year: UNDP Kathmandu, May 20 Global human development — which can be measured as a combination of the world’s education, health and living standards — could decline this year for the first time since the concept was introduced in 1990, the United Nations... 21 May, 2020
Your money or your life: Can nations prosper by putting well-being before GDP in 2020? BANGKOK: With protests from Chile to Hong Kong last year over widening inequality, violence against women, and climate change, more policymakers and campaigners started to openly debate potential shifts away from an economic model that relies on... Women 02 Jan, 2020
Human development: Nepal up 2 spots Kathmandu, December 10 Nepal’s ranking in the 2019 human development index improved two spots to 147 compared to last year, according to a report published by the United Nations Development Programme today. The ranking is out of 189... Travel 11 Dec, 2019
