China says COVID-19 hospitalizations above 1,000

China says it is now treating more than 1,000 people for COVID-19 as numbers of cases continue to surge in the country’s north. The National Health Commission said Friday that 1,001 patients are under care for the disease, 26 of them in serious condition. It says 144 total new cases were recorded in the previous 24 hours.

Clean Feed Policy Boost To Nepali Advertisement Sector

The issue of clean feed provision that has been raised by the advertisement professionals in Nepal for about past 12 to 15 years has finally been implemented by the government by bringing the Advertising Regulation Act, 2076 . Clean Feed Implementation Foreign channels aired in Nepal after 2020 October 23 will have to broadcast only after observing the clean feed provision. The foreign channels are not allowed to air their advertisements in the country. Earlier, in the absence of such a powerful...

Rhetoric And Verbal Trick

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Marvels Of Myanmar

Yubaraj Nayanghare is a well-known Nepali essayist, with particular thrust in travel essays. He already has over a dozen works to his credit and has not only won several prestigious awards including the Madan Puraskar in 2065 BS but also the hearts and minds of numerous readers at home and abroad. Tanakkha is a collection of 21 essays that centres around Nayaghare’s three-week travel to Myanmar nearly two years ago and presents his impressions of the Nepali community residing in the South-East...

Dharmodaya Sabha Harbinger Of Buddhism In Nepal

Dharmodaya Sabha is the first and foremost national Buddhist organisation of Nepal. It has made a significant and noble contribution in promoting Buddhism and promoting Buddhist tradition in Nepal since 75 years ago. Before 1951A.D, during the Rana regime, there was no freedom of speech as nobody was permitted to speak about Buddhism. In 1944, the Rana Prime Minister

Media Literacy In Contemporary Society

Dictionary of Media and Communication defines media literacy as “an in-depth knowledge of how the media work and how they might influence audiences”. In general, it is an idea that enables us to interpret and analyse the news or information presented by the media.

Cooperatives help increase Salyan’s milk production

After the establishment of dairies and cooperatives in various places of the Salyan district, farmers there have been able to find a wide market for th eir milk and earn a decent living. Having to sell milk used to worry Dilmaya Oli of Darma Rural Municipality-5. She had to roam from village to village and from market to market to find buyers for the dairy products she used to produce at home. But now, she sells it to her local cooperative. “The Women and Small Farmers Agriculture Cooperative...

Gyawali's India Visit

Nepal and India have continued to enjoy cordial bilateral relations based on mutual respect and cooperation since time immemorial. The bilateral ties have been guided by the historical, cultural, traditional and religious factors. Since the establishment of the diplomatic relations between the two nations in 1947, the ties have become more comprehensive and multidimensional. The ties have deepened further because of the two nations’ firm commitment to the principles of peacef

Trumpism Endangers US Media

One of the editors of The Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) cautioned against a message to the US journalists by the supporters of Trump on January 6 at Capitol. Savannah Jacobson, editor and writer, works for a bimonthly magazine, states that the mob of right-wing extremists and indignant live streamers left a note to the journalists who were covering the scene, a message that seemed a harrowing extension of a presidency marked by anti-press virulence. She indicates the danger as she informed the...

Delegitimisation Of Nuclear Weapons

As a good sign of progress towards nuclear disarmament, an international agreement known as Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons has come into effect from this month having obtained the 50th ratification from one of the signatory countries in October 2020. The road to