Women’s Commission meets only 50% of goals

Over the last year, the National Women Commission (NWC) was able to achieve only half of its set goals due to COVID-19. At a press interaction on Wednesday, the commission’s chairperson Kamala Kumari Parajuli informed that the commission had trouble reaching and rescuing the victims of violence because of the pandemic. Similarly, the coronavirus outbreak also prevented the commission from carrying out various studies and research works and conducting field monitoring activities. Another challenge...

In wake of visitor revival, Sauraha fears impact of virus resurge

The New Year 2078 has brought boon to Sauraha, a tourism hub in Chitwan, which like other tourist destinations across the country experienced the brunt of the coronavirus pandemic and remained out of operation for more than six months.

Capital City, hilly region to remain cloudy till Friday

Weather in the Kathmandu Valley and other areas in the hilly regions has remained partly to generally cloudy throughout the day bringing brief rains in some parts of the country on Wednesday. According to Meteorologist Samir Kumar Shrestha at Meteorological Forecasting Division under the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology, cloud has covered most parts of the country since Wednesday morning and some places of the valley received light rains.

Hilsa of Humla gets snow in April

Hilsa has witnessed an April snowfall after many years on Wednesday. According to Deputy Inspector of the Armed Police Force Gajendra Bhandari, a fresh layer of snow has blanketed Hilsa along with all other places of Humla that are above an altitude of 3,500 metres. This includes the entire area of Namkha Rural Municipality and some parts of Simkot Rural Municipality.

Dry Port In Far West

Nepal is a landlocked nation but it has reached agreements with neighbours to have an access to sea for the third country trade route. Still it has not been able to fully utilise these seaports in the absence of robust connectivity infrastructure and lucrative export items to be traded in a large amount to foreign nations. Even if the country imports the vast amount of goods from abroad, the sea and dry ports play critical role in improving supply chain and drastically cutting the transportation...

Fostering Intergovernmental Ties

The constitution of Nepal provides for a variant of cooperative federalism. The notion of cooperative federalism is very important in the sense that it emphasises mutual concurrence, collaboration, interdependence and co-existence among three tiers of the government- federal, provincial and local.

New Homes For Orphaned Kids

Zambia has launched a pilot project to return orphaned or abandoned children to their own extended families or to new foster homes, in an effort to re-integrate them into normal families. The government-approved project is run by Catholic Care for Children in Zambia (CCCZ) at two of its facilities – St. Martin’s Children's Home in the Copperbelt province in the north and Lubasi Home in Livingstone in the southwest. So far, 48 children have been placed in families since the programme began two...

Street dogs kill goats in Morang

“Saving the goats has been a difficult task for us. One of my goats was surrounded by 15-20 stray dogs while it was grazing in the field around a fortnight ago. I could rescue the goat from the dogs but it died during treatment,” said Ram Chandra Sahani, a local.

TIA police returns 122 people for carrying fake PCR reports

Altogether 122 passengers who were going to different countries for foreign employment have been repatriated from Tribhuvan International Airport on Wednesday. Chief of the airport security office and Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rajesh Nath Bastola said that they were returned from the airport after the PCR reports they produced were found fake.

Hilsa of Humla gets snow in April

According to Deputy Inspector of the Armed Police Force Gajendra Bhandari, a fresh layer of snow has blanketed Hilsa along with all other places of Humla that are above an altitude of 3,500 metres. This includes the entire area of Namkha Rural Municipality and some parts of Simkot Rural Municipality.