Masuria forest area bans entry after sighting of female tiger, cubs

Entry to the Masuria forest area of ​​Kailali district has been prohibited after a tigress was sighted, along with her two cubs. The Community Forest Coordinating Committee, Masuria, has enacted the ban in an effort to avert human-tiger conflict. People living in the surrounding areas enter the forest mostly to pick fiddlehead ferns and other plants during their seasons.

Indigenous peoples suffer under conservation policies: Report

Nepal’s Indigenous peoples have suffered a litany of human rights violations over the past five decades as a result of unfair conservation policies, a report said. A report titled ‘Violations in the name of conservation’ jointly published by Amnesty International and the Community Self-Reliance Centre (CSRC) on Monday highlighted how the establishment of national parks and other “protected areas” has resulted in tens of thousands of indigenous peoples being forcibly evicted from their...

Nifra to invest Rs. 675m in ‘Sky Walk Towers’

Nepal Infrastructure Bank Limited (Nifra) has signed a loan agreement with Wonders Group for the construction of ‘Sky Walk Tower’ in Bhedetar of Dhankuta in Province 1 and Kamaladi of Kathmandu. Nifra has decided to make a loan investment to the country’s first of its kind projects to promote investment in the tourism sector which is the hardest-hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The bank has approved the loan of Rs. 675 million.

TSC to conduct teachers license exams

The Teachers’ Service Commission (TSC) is now preparing to conduct license examinations for permanent teachers in community schools across the country. The commission has not conducted the examinations for about two years in lack of officials. The present government appointed officials in the TSC on August 3. The TSC has begun its exercise to conduct the examinations of permanent teaching licence of fresh graduates eagerly waiting for the examinations to take a career in teaching. Likewise,...

NGOs donate equipment to Nepalgunj for COVID-19 3rd wave preparation

Various non-governmental organisations have donated Rs. 7.6 million worth of health materials to Nepalgunj Sub-Metropolitan City and the Bheri Hospital to help them prepare for a potential third wave of COVID-19.

Senior citizens get booster dose of COVID vaccine

The second dose of vaccine for citizens aged above 65 years with AstraZeneca vaccine has started from Monday. According to the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), initially the campaign will be conducted at vaccination sites in Bagmati, Gandaki, Lumbini, Karnali and Sudurpaschim Provinces followed by Provinces 1 and 2. The MoHP has requested all to follow the health safety standards at the vaccination sites.

Common Stance On Key National Issues

As planned during its formation, the ruling alliance has accorded topmost priority to saving the lives of people by reining in COVID-19, reviving the pandemic-affected national economy, building up high quality and sustainable physical infrastructures and ensuring good governance as well as efficient service delivery.

Melamchi In Ruins

The much-touted Melamchi Water Supply Project (MWSP) was finally inaugurated on March 28 this year. It is one of the most delayed projects in Nepal, which took over two decades to get completed at a cost of Rs. 31 billion. While under construction, the pr

Dissecting Conspicuous Consumption Of Tourism

Unproductive consumption of goods is honuorable”, Thorstein Veblen connoted this human behaviour in his book “Theory of the Leisure Class” all the way back in 1899. An economist-cum--anthropologist, Veblen set forth the formal study of leisure economy, the human propensity towards wealth and the behavioural aspect pertaining to gaining the pecuniary status. And, it was for the leisure class and elites who travelled. The Grand Tour in the 17th century prevailed around upper-class

Fighting Delta Variant

As of present, many areas of China are waging a new battle against COVID-19 caused by the highly contagious Delta variant, which has wreaked havoc across the world. The variant has been found in some provinces, with small clusters of outbreaks in Nanjing and other cities. Mass testing has been initiated in the impacted areas. It comes amid a fade in global optimism that the world can quickly overcome the pandemic, despite progress made in vaccines.