Traditional Nepali tools now limited to stories

Many traditional tools and equipment invented by our ancestors have started disappearing thanks to modernisation. This is happening all over the country and Rautahat has not remained untouched.

Rose demand drops this Valentine Day

With the beginning of the Valentine's Week, sales of roses have soared at several flower shops of the Kathmandu Valley.

Dispute delays completion of Urlabari substation construction

A dispute has erupted over a plan of erecting electricity transmission poles from the Damak Distribution Centre of Nepal Electricity Authority to the under-construction substation at Urlabari-4. The dispute started after a family of Athiyawari of Urlabari-8 did not allow NEA to erect the poles in a private road they had opened.

KMC to offer free urine tests to prevent kidney diseases

Starting February 17, denizens of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) will get urine tests done for free. They only have to visit community urban health clinics run by the government in their respective wards for urine tests. The service will be provided at all wards of KMC, as a part of the ‘Save the Kidney’ Campaign.

Activists march in capital demanding women’s safety

Thousands of people including writers, poets, activists and actors took to the street in the capital on Friday demanding safety for women amid the increasing cases of rapes in the country.

Constitutional Imperative Of Civic Education

A progressive human life depends on continuous learning about the changing ecological, social, economic, technological and political conditions of complex society. Human birth is biological but the goal of life is not death. Its settled answer lies in enlightenment which spurs inner vigilance or knowing self for building good character. It is the mainspring of courage, freedom and self-determination.

Adopt Common Approach To Development

In a fresh round of tension between the local authority and the community people, the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC)’s master plan of reconstructing Kamalpokhari has become controversial. The KMC, once again, has hit news headlines for its debatable decision. The authorities, however, deny it.

37, 000 landless in Chitwan to get land ownership certificates

All seven local levels of Chitwan district have initiated a process to provide land ownership certificate to over 37,000 landless squatters in the district. The local levels, including Bharatpur Metropolitan City, are now busy collecting data of the landless individuals in their area.  Some local levels have already completed the data collection work and have begun verifying the individuals through ward offices.

NHRC urges India's rights body to probe into Nepali girl's gang rape

Writing a letter to the human rights body of India on Thursday, the NHRC requested the Indian counterpart to bring the perpetrators to justice by conducting an impartial investigation into such heinous and inhumane incidents and providing compensation to the victim’s family.

Experts say Xi-Biden call bodes well for potential China-U.S. cooperation

The telephone conversation between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, bodes well for potential cooperation between China and the United States, experts from across the globe have said.