Bipul Chettri releases new music video 

It was the year of 2012 when Bipul Chettri first released his contagious massive tune ‘Wildfire’ on SoundCloud, an online music sharing website. The streams on the track started spreading around rapidly and everyone was in awe with the brilliant new artistic realm this particular tune fortified. With an effortless charm in its melody, the track exploded out from SoundCloud into everyone’s playlist and Bipul Chettri became the star we all adore so dearly today. 

Nine health posts being built in Madhyabindu

Construction of nine health post buildings in nine wards of Madhyabindu Municipality in East Nawalparasi is now moving in full pace. Mayor Chandra Bahadur Rana informed that the municipality had expedited infrastructure construction to establish basic health posts in nine of 14 wards, which lack government-provided health facilities. The health posts are being constructed as per the government policy of providing health facilities in every ward, he added. Basic health post buildings are being...

Let Senior Citizens Lead Dignified Life

SENIOR citizens are an integral part of any society. No one should overlook or forget the contributions they have made while raising families and being an important contributor to the promotion of society and the development of a country. However, in a society like ours, many elderly citizens encounter various difficulties. Carelessness from families, ignorance by the state, diseases and old-age-related physical and mental troubles call for attention towards their multifaceted plights.

Early Polls Go Against SC Verdicts

DESPITE the reinstatement of the dissolved House of Representatives (HoR), national politics has not turned full circle. The coalition government comprising the political parties of divergent thoughts is yet to take a full shape but its major challenge is to draw up a common blueprint, guiding it to steer the nation up to the next elections. It must be able to make state institutions effective and functional in order to bolster federal republican system and thwart the threats po

Elimination Of Rabies Essential

THE danger posed by rabies is the greatest in developing countries in South Asia and Africa with large populations of stray and unvaccinated dogs. Death by rabies is excruciating, and once symptoms start, nearly 100 per cent is definite.

Recalling Ancestors

WE, the followers of Sanatan Dharma, have the tradition of remembering our forefathers before big festivals of Dashain and Tihar. This is called Sohra Shradda that started from the period of Mahabharata. It lasts for 16 days in which deceased fathers, mothers and forefathers are remembered and worshipped with special rituals. As I asked one of my friends, who follows monotheism, “Do you have such a tradition?”

Retired under secretary Rana becomes lemon farmer

When people picture retirement, they picture rest. People spend their retired years with friends and family and take up hobbies. Some may travel to exotic destinations or go on holidays. Very few retire from their jobs only to start another, more labour-intensive, work but, as it turns out, Dhan Bahadur Rana is one of those few. Rana retired from civil service two years ago. Before his retirement, he was the undersecretary at the Plan Protection Laboratory in Birauta, Pokhara – a position which...

1,123 COVID-19 recoveries, 659 new infections in 24 hours

In 5,598 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the past 24 hours, a total of 659 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2, informed the Ministry of Health and Population on Saturday through its regular update.

Foreign Exchange Reserves slid by Rs 45.21 billion

The Foreign exchange reserves have slid by Rs 45.21 billion to Rs 1353.82 billion in the mid-September, the first two months' report of the current fiscal year (FY) showed.

Rare plant species rediscovered in southwest China after 83 years

A rare species of Berbris of Berberidaceae (barberry family), has been rediscovered in a new distribution area in southwest China's Yunnan Province 83 years after it was first spotted.