Khanal conferred Janasewashree medal

Consulting Editor of Gorkhapatra Corporation Gopal Khanal has been conferred with the Prabal Janasewashree (Fourth) medal of the year 2076 BS. President Bidya Devi Bhandari conferred the medal on Khanal at a conferral ceremony held at the Presidential Office Sheetal Niwas in Kathmandu on Friday. The conferral ceremony, supposed to be held a year ago, was postponed due to the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. 

Dialogue As Tool To Solve Conflict               

Dialogue is a multi-actor conversation to discover a shared process of reaching conclusion, behaviour coordination and rational action. Democracy requires regular dialogues among leaders and with citizens. Without a worthy opposition democracy loses its dynamic and descends into authoritarianism. Meaningful dialogue eases open flow of ideas of individuals from various sides and furnishes relevant options to solve conflicts. Group conflict looms large if individual boundaries are melted into a larger...

Promoting Tourism Through Rafting

In recent times, tourism has been gaining popularity in both developing and developed countries rapidly chiefly because of the fast development in transport and communication facilities. Nowadays, it is turning into the strongest service industry in the world with its resilient power to overcome adverse impacts to satisfy the increasing human quest for travel. A few decades ago, tourism was limited to a handful of countries where there were more infrastructures and development. But today most countries...

Biska Jatra to begin today

Biska Jatra, the eight-night-and-nine-day-long festival, is kicking off from Saturday by pulling the chariots of Lord Bhairavnath and Goddess Bhadrakali, in Bhaktapur. Bhaktapur Municipality has issued a public notice, including a schedule concerning chariot pulling time, its routes, worshiping time and other rituals performing time.

Elon Musk's Neuralink 'shows monkey playing Pong with mind'

Neuralink, Elon Musk's computer to brain interface firm, has released a video it claims shows a monkey playing the video game Pong with its mind.

Re-appointed ministers take oath of office

Four re-appointed ministers took the oath of office and secrecy before president Bidhya Devi Bhandari at a special function held at Rastrapati Bhawan, Shital Niwas today.

Prince Philip has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace announces

Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II's husband, has died aged 99, Buckingham Palace has announced.

MoHP confirms 288 new cases of COVID-19

In 4,071 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 288 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2.

Four ministers expelled from NCP (Maoist Centre) re-appointed

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has re-appointed four former ministers to their respective positions who were expelled by NCP (Maoist Centre).

ODA disbursement up by 21.2 per cent in 2019/20

As per the report, an ODA of 2,003 million USD was disbursed in 2019/20 compared to 1,578 million USD in the previous year, an increase of 21.2 per cent.