NIFF releases its film Lineup for 2021

Nepal International Film Festival (NIFF), which opened its call for entries back in July 2020, received over 450 films from 52 countries despite the restrictions caused by the global pandemic. “We would like to thank all the applicants and participants for submitting their films for NIFF 2021 in the midst of the global health crisis,” said Festival chair, K.P. Pathak. Although several film projects have come to a grinding halt following the virus outbreak, Pathak expressed his enthusiasm over...

Locals tend to form 'Farmers’ Group'

These days, a tendency to form 'Farmers’ Group' has grown in rural municipalities. Farmers are being united to demand financial grants for their agricultural necessities. In each rural municipality, almost 100 Farmer Groups are registered. They are seen communicating frequently to the ward and municipality officials about the procedure to take the grant from the municipality. Annually, almost a dozen notices for a variety of agricultural production, equipment and material are published by municipality...

Karnali draws tourism master plan for 10 years

Karnali Provincial Government has formulated a 10-year master plan for tourism development. This was done to develop and regulate tourism in the area. Karnali possesses infinite possibilities in the field of tourism, however, due to lack of vision and investment, nothing has been done there.

Informant mobilisation by police results in clash

Police in Makwanpur have been highly criticised over time for its use of ‘vigilantes’ in a bid to control marijuana cultivation and smuggling in the rural areas of the district. The same vigilantes used by the police caused dispute with the locals leading to clash, fire in the air, injuries and arrests in Ward 1 of Raksirang Rural Municipality on Saturday night.

‘Rupandehi role model for long-term projects’

Following the foundation stone laying of Lumbini Cable Car last week by Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli, Finance Minister Bishnu Paudel laid the foundation stone for yet another cable car in Butwal on Sunday. The cable car, which is stipulated to come in operation in the next 18 months, will connect Butwal Deurali Danda to Palpa’s Nuwakot, according to Siddhartha Cablecar Pvt. Ltd., the company tasked with the completion of the project. The company aims to operate a total of 25 gondolas on the ropeway...

No alternative to House reinstatement: Paudel

Nepali Congress senior leader Ram Chandra Paudel has said that the House of Representatives will be reinstated. Speaking at a press meet organised by Nepal Press Union Saptari chapter in Rajbiraj on Sunday, senior leader Paudel said that there was no alternative to the reinstatement of the House as Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had not abided by any Article of the Constitution while dissolving the House of Representatives.

Govt restricts use of junk food in school meal

With a target to control the use of junk food as day meal for school children, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) has released a menu of 60 different foods that could be fed to the children.

A Democratic Option

Nepal’s politics now stands at a critical juncture. With the dissolution of the House of Representatives (HoR), the entire political realm has been divided into two lines of thought. One school of thought is that the country should go to the election to pick fresh representatives in the HoR which will give a new government to the nation. Prime Minister and Chairman of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) KP Sharma Oli is defending this line of argument. On the other, another faction of NCP is...

Emerging Asian Age

During the 1952 presidential election campaign in the United States, the eventual winner Dwight Eisenhower made a blatantly dubious comment: “If there must be war, let it be Asians against Asians with our support on the side of freedom.” But he opposed land wars in Asia

Making Payment Through QR Code

QR Code, an abbreviated form of Quick Response Code, is a two-dimensional barcode that allows encoding of characters containing information about the item to which it is attached. In practice, QR codes often contain data for a locator, identifier, or tracker