Incessant rainfall inundates settlements in Kathmandu (Photo Feature)

Various places in the Valley have been inundated due to the flooding in the rivers caused by incessant rainfall from last night.

Conduct training in integrated manner: Finance Minister

Finance Minister Janardan Sharma has directed to make policy preparations to conduct training programmes in an integrated manner. “Programmes of the same nature are being carried out by many government bodies. In this way, the work is not effective. Prepare to centralise them,” he said at a programme organised at the Ministry of Finance Sunday. "There is a problem of giving the same training to the same person every year. It should be stopped,” he said. He stressed on the need to conduct...

Army HQ bids farewell to CoAS Thapa

Nepali Army Headquarters Sunday formally bid farewell to Chief of the Army Staff (CoAS) General Purna Chandra Thapa. In the farewell ceremony organised by the Acting Army Chief Prabhu Ram Sharma inhonour of outgoing Army Chief Thapa this evening, the Army Headquarters provided separate tokens of love to the retiring CoAS. The Acting Army Chief, Defence Secretary Begendra Raj Sharma Paudyal, chief of Nepal Police Shailesh Thapa Kshetri, Shailendra Khanal, Chief of Nepal Armed Police Force and Ganesh...

South Lake Tahoe residents can return as fire threat eases

Tens of thousands of people forced to flee South Lake Tahoe could begin returning to their homes after evacuation orders were downgraded to warnings Sunday afternoon as crews made progress against a massive wildfire.

'We are planning to reposition projects'

Being a Least Developed Country, Nepal needed a large amount of investment in infrastructure development and industrial projects so the government had established the Investment Board of Nepal (IBN) as a high-level agency a decade ago to provide fast-track service to facilitate and mobilise domestic and foreign investment, and create an investment-friendly environment. The IBN organised two investment summits and a blended finance conference, signed project agreements with four large-scale projects...

64 representatives of Salyan choose CPN (US)

As many as 64 people’s representatives of Salyan, who were elected on CPN-UML tickets, joined the CPN (Unified Socialist), Saturday. Out of 23 ward chairpersons elected from CPN-UML in the district, 16 ward chairpersons have verified themselves in favour of the Madhav Kumar-led CPN (Unified Socialist), after reaching the district office of the Election Commission.

BFIs Reflect Gender Parity

With the continuous political changes and expanded economic activities, Nepal has witnessed enhanced gender parity and women’s empowerment. Successive governments have adopted political, legal and constitutional measures to empower women in almost all sectors of the society. Such policy interventions are premised on the philosophy that women empowerment is the key to the socio-economic transformations because women comprise more than 50 per cent of population. Sustainable and equitable development...

Three Superpower-Game

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the world is witness to the emergence of China as a superpower joining the other two — the United States and Russia — in the exclusive club. Superpowers earn their status on the basis of their visible prowess far in excess of other major powers. Until the Soviet Union’s breakup in the early 1990

Climate Change Deniers Are Shapeshifters

No one seems as defeated as the global warming “deniers” who dominated rightwing thinking a decade ago. Like late 18th-century opponents of abolishing the slave trade, Lord Lawson and the claque of Conservative cranks who filled the comment pages of the Tory press are remembered today as dangerous fools – assuming they are remembered at all.

Signs Of Tourism Recovery

Tourism in Nepal is likely to revive gradually from this autumn as the country has now witnessed a remarkable fall in COVID-19 infections and deaths. This sector has already started showing some indications of recovery with the resumption of many international flights to and from Kathmandu.