Works on Upper Tamakoshi in full swing

Final phase works on the 456 MW Upper Tamakoshi Hydropower Project are moving in full swing. Minor civil and mechanical works of dams, tunnels, transmission lines, substations and other structures are moving being carried out.

Israeli envoy's initiative to teach students about e-waste mgmt

It is a known fact that small dry batteries used in radios, flashlights, remote controls, children's toys, and other household wastes can harm land and water. To generate awareness about the misuse of such e-waste, Hanan Goder-Goldberger, Israel's ambassador to Nepal, visited various schools to teach students the ways to manage such dry batteries, which have a direct impact on public health.

Govt imposes restrictions on nighttime businesses

In a bid to contain the spread of COVID-19, the government has urged the restaurants and other businesses to close them after 9 pm. Issuing a public notice on Wednesday, the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) made the request after a risk of further spread of COVID-19 increased due to the violation of health protocols and the growing number of the UK variant of the COVID-19 in the country.

Fighting Forest Fires

The thick smog has again blanketed the sky across the country from early Wednesday morning, with the people wearing warm clothes to beat unusual cold. The weather normally starts to be hot around this time of the year but it is still a bit chilly,

Catch Them Young For Integrity Building

Can students act together to keep vigil and monitor to assure that the school management processes and actions are carried out in consonance with the values and norms of integrity and accountability? Can schools students can be enabled to watch and check the acts of deviances and dereliction of duty ascribed to teachers, schools authorities, school reconstruction contractors and other actors that militate against the sanctity, norms and values of the integrity? An action piloted by a consortium of...

Economic Freedom

Having a feeling of not unlocking the optimal potential or falling behind others, many young people suffer from a quarter-life crisis. In this stage of life, financial independence remains critical to gain self-confidence and attain desired goals. Having a feeling of not unlocking the optimal potential or falling behind others, many young people suffer from a quarter-life crisis. In this stage of life, financial independence remains critical to gain self-confidence and attain desired goals.

Israeli envoy's initiative to teach school students about  e-waste  mgmat

On Wednesday, Ambassador Goder-Goldberger visited a private school in New Baneshwor with an empty water jar, requested the principal, administrators and teachers of the school to collect the dry batteries used by the students and teachers and collect them in the empty water jars kept in the school.

Revenue Investigation Office destroys 72tn inedible sugar

On the basis of the FTQCO’s declaration, the Department of Revenue Investigation sent a letter to the RIO on March 19, giving it permission to destroy the sugar, said Tanka Pandey, Chief Investigation Officer at the department’s Pathalaiya office. Accordingly, the RIO destroyed the sugar, worth Rs. 6 million, by burying it on Monday evening.

Mushroom farming learnt from YouTube pays off

Sharing her knowledge on the skill, she said: “Soak undecomposed hay in clean cold water for 24 hours before boiling it for one-and-a-half hours. Then place the mushroom seeds at four-inch gaps and put the hay in a plastic bag. Hay packs should be kept in a clean, lightproof room or a mushroom house. Watering the plant time and again as required, the seed start giving yields after a month.”

Sikta irrigation affected due to lack of engineers, technicians 

Head of the Sikta Project, Lok Bahadur Thapa, said that the project has not been going smoothly and steadily as the continuous request to fill the remaining nine vacancies that includes engineers and technicians has not been heard.