Border hurdle scares traders away from Rasuwagadhi, Tatopani

China’s international trade bounced back to normalcy, despite the COVID-19 pandemic and trade dispute with the United States of America, by the end of 2020 making it one of the best years with $460 billion trade surplus – up 21.4 per cent from this time in 2019 - in the first 11 months of 2020.

Kirtipur locals brace to restore long-lost Layaku Durbar

Where once stood the fabled Layaku Durbar or the Royal Palace of Kirtipur, today stand a rows of residential brick houses. The age-old structure, which historians trace back to the supposed founder of Kirtipur, King Shiva Dev back in the 11th century, survives only in folk tales and oral history.  Rupak Maharjan, President of Kirtipur Guide Association, has only ever heard of the Layaku Durbar from elders. “There isn’t a single trace of the said royal residence. Even during my grandfather’s...

419 new cases of COVID-19 in 5,000 RT-PCR tests

In 5,000 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 419 persons were found infected with SARS-CoV-2.

Australian state under fire for slow response

Australia’s leading medical group says the New South Wales state government has put the rest of the country at risk by its decision not to go “hard and early” in its response to the COVID-19 outbreak on Sydney’s northern beaches, which is suspected to have also caused new cases in neighboring Victoria state.

Document on Pokali Jharna made public

A documentary on ‘Pokali Jharna’ (Pokali waterfall) in Okhaldhuga has been made public in Kathmandu. Pokali Jharna, listed in the top 100 destinations for the visit year 2020, is located in Likhu Rural Municipality Ward-9, Okhaldhunga. The 133-metre Pokali Fall is the second tallest waterfall in Nepal. The Pokali waterfall also separates Leti village and Wachpu village of Likhu Gaunpalika-9.

Reecha announces making of new film ‘Kaussidd’

Actress Reecha Sharma has announced production of a new film on the occasion of New Year 2021. Announcing a theme poster of the film on Facebook on Friday, she informed that she was going to make “Kaussidd”. By announcing the production of new film, Reecha shared, “The year 2020 was an unexpected year for me with bitter mixed experiences. With the beginning of 2021, I am working on the movie, Kaussidd, with full of passion and enthusiasm.”

Reckoning Stability Of Regime

Democratic regime is organised within the permanent institutions of the state as they provide hard shell to avert effects of what Hedley Bull calls the ‘anarchic state of global politics where power induced geopolitics, not norm-based democracy, is a guiding constant’. But if the state has defective monopoly on power caused by its inability to satisfy international obligations, needs and demands of societal forces and rights of Nepalis, it cannot mobilise the bonding forces of society for national...

Public Access to News Media Data In Nepal

The data related to news media are important for advertisers, news media and the public. Due to this, many countries have mechanisms to collect such data and make them public. These data are helpful for making sense of the condition of the news media sector. The public access to these data is a way to make news media more "transparent". What kinds of data related to news media workers, audiences and revenue are easily available in Nepal?

NEA Must Get Its Act Together

They say only two things in life are certain: death and taxes. However, in Nepal, there was a third certain thing and that was load-shedding. Power cuts, day in and day out, had become an integral and seemingly interminable aspect of our society. People scheduled their life around the load-shedding timing, which, at its peak, was 18 hours a day. A day is 24 hours and Nepalis were forced to spend 18 hours of that without electricity. From industry and tourism to education and health, no sector was...

Agreements reached on key points of Mahakali Treaty

Nepal and India have reached an agreement over a few contentious points of the Mahakali Treaty. A secretary-level committee of both the countries reached an agreement on articles 3, 4 and 7 of the treaty. Article 3 discusses the cost-sharing of the Pancheshwor Multipurpose Project, Article 4 deals with the construction of the Dodhara and Chandani irrigation tunnel and Article 7 includes the provision of releasing water upstream. The agreement was finalised through bilateral talks held in New Delhi...