Baglung women begin delivering babies at health centres now

Lalita Gotame, a resident of Ward No. 4, in Dhorpatan Municipality, in Baglung district, recently birthed her third child. She gave birth to her first child in India and the other two in Khunga, a village in the ward. Lalita had no access to any health check-up facility when she conceived for the second time. To make the matter worse, she was forced to give birth to her second child in a shed at the Thulogar area of Khunga, because giving birth at home is seen as a bad omen according to the deeply-held...

US shipping J&J vaccines to Nepal

The United States of America will send 1.5 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine to Nepal on Friday. The shipments are part of the Biden administration’s pledge to share an initial batch of 80 million US-made vaccines globally, according to Reuters.

President’s office furnishes replies to Supreme Court

The Office of the President has furnished a six-point written response to the Supreme Court (SC) in relation to the writ petitions filed against the office for expanding the cabinet. The written response was submitted to the SC via Office of the Attorney General.

CPN-UML taskforce reaches consensus

The CPN-UML taskforce assigned to suggest ways to resolve the intraparty disputes claimed Friday that a consensus was reached between the two factions of the party. A marathon meeting of the taskforce that continued for more than seven hours at Singha Durbar today succeeded to find a middle way to settle the intra-party differences. After the meeting, Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, party Spokesperson, told journalists that the leaders of the taskforce reached an agreement to sort out all differences. He...

Commodity exchange to come into operation next year

The Securities Board of Nepal (SEBON) said on Friday that it would operate commodity market next year. Speaking at a discussion programme on its proposed Policy and Programmes for the coming Fiscal Year 2021/22 organised virtually, SEBON Chairman Bhisma Raj Dhungana has presented the commodity market as one of the major agenda of the capital market regulator.

Nepal, India sign letters of exchange to amend rail services agreement

India and Nepal have signed a letter of exchange to the Nepal-India Rail Services Agreement of 2004. A virtual ceremony was organised to exchange Notes Verbales and the signed copies of the letters between the governments of Nepal and India on Friday.

Ideas For Systemic Conflict Transformation

Sustainable peace needs an inter-subjective, indigenous source of knowledge of conflict for its transformation.  As conflict moves from simplicity to complexity, it perturbs past causes and effects entailing fresh learning to cope with ambiguity, contingency and change telling leaders not to negate any actor from the outcome of peace. It is a part of the same polity.  Rational solution based on systemic conscience relatively satisfies all actors. It improves their stake in peace and widens scope...

New Landscape For Financial Ecosystem

Technology has been at the forefront in every aspect of our life. Those who fail to reap the benefits from it cannot know its wonders. But it has been never more significant to bring in the use of technology for safety, ease and comfort. Amid the current pandemic situation, it has become the ultimate toolkit to provide a way out to address an obscurity, especially in the financial sector. The demand for digital finance and new technologies is pervasive now.

Challenges Of e-Exams

E-learning has well and truly become part of the pandemic life here in Nepal. Schools, colleges and universities have all implemented some form of e-learning to conduct classes and complete the courses. And so far, this model has worked, at least in the cities. Virtual platforms have allowed educational institutions to run classes smoothly and teachers and students to maintain some vestige of normalcy and have regular interactions. However, things have not been that simple when it comes to giving...

101 years of sati pratha abolition in Nepal

On May 5, 1806, on the bank of the Salinadi rivulet at Sankhu, Maharani Raj Rajeshwari Devi, the Queen Consort of Nepal burnt alive on a funeral pyre. Historians believe that the queen was forced against her will into practising the ancient ritual of sati. The episode has also been listed as a tragic incident of superstitious tradition in Michael Farquhar’s book ‘Bad Days in History’. Like Queen Rajeshwari countless women throughout history have been condemned to this outrageous custom.