This visit has cemented Nepal-India ties: Gyawali

Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali has said that his visit to India has further consolidated the intimate and multidimensional relations between two inextricably linked neighbours -- Nepal and India. While there, both countries held in-depth discussions on the review of 1950 Peace and Friendship Treaty, report of the Eminent Persons Group (EPG) and sorting out the border disputes. Talking to journalists upon his arrival at the Tribhuvan International Airport on Saturday afternoon,...

Rautahat’s community schools in pathetic condition

Even though the government has invested heavily in community schools in Rautahat district, that investment has not been translated into the improvement in their physical infrastructure and the quality of education they offer. The condition of community schools in urban areas can be considered acceptable but of those in the rural areas of the district is deplorable. They have suffered under the negligence of their teachers and headmasters who do not adhere to the class timings and show up and leave...

Gorkhapatra’s Kohalpur publication house under construction

It has been said that construction work is being underway with the target of publishing Gorkhapatra from mid-March this year from Kohalpur publication house.  

Iranian Guard holds anti-warship ballistic missile drill

Footage showed two missiles smash into a target that Iranian state television described as “hypothetical hostile enemy ships” at a distance of 1,800 kilometers (1,120 miles). The report did not specify the type of missiles used.

240 new infections detected in 3,819 RT-PCR tests

With 240 new cases of novel coronavirus confirmed on Saturday, the national COVID-19 tally has surged to 267,056.

Intensify development works: PM Oli

National Development Action Committee (NDAC) has decided to accelerate the current pace of capital expenditure in development process that has been stalled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 48th meeting of the NDAC held at the Prime Minister’s residence in Baluwatar under the chairmanship of Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli decided to intensify development works and capital expenditure. The meeting approved the overall review of the last fiscal year and the first four months of the current fiscal...

Income from mushrooms surpasses Makhan’s overseas earnings

Makhan Gurung of Byas Municipality-14, who was in foreign employment until a few years ago and travelled to Iraq, Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Malaysia in search of jobs, is now finding his good time in mushroom farming in his hometown. "I spent many years working abroad," he said, "but I didn't earn as much as I am currently earning at home." He has been cultivating mushrooms in Sondhe of Byas Municipality-13 with his friend Tak Bahadur Gurung.

Building Resilience At Critical Moment

The American President-elect Joe Biden’s promise to support multilateralism is raising hope of all nations for a rule-based world order. Global statesmanship demands ability to foster global partnership and coordinated action by managing high profile issues and centrifugal pulls of regional Leviathans pursuing their own interests and placing diplomacy to the delight of its place. His commitment to defend democracy dovetails with the European Union’s approach to revitalise trans-Atlantic democratic...

Vaccines Alone Inadequate To Eliminate A Virus

Smallpox killed countless millions – 300 million people in the 20th century alone – before it was finally declared eradicated on May 8, 1980. It was a momentous day, marking what the current director general of the World Health Organisation, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called the greatest “public health triumph in world history”. Smallpox, as one researcher has emphasised,

PM for result-oriented disaster reduction works

Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has expressed his commitment to making disaster risk reduction works sustainable and result-oriented. In his message to an event organised on the occasion of the 23rd Earthquake Safety Day at Bode of Madhyapur Thimi Municipality here on Friday, Prime Minister Oli stressed the need for moving ahead by cooperating with all the local bodies and citizens to reduce the loss of life and property in the disasters, including earthquakes.