Need To Promote Healthy Ageing

OUR environment is an important determinant of health. It can either favour for healthy living or have adverse effect on health. Every country throughout the world should provide an opportunity to its citizens for leading a healthy and long life. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines healthy Ageing as “the process of developing and maintaining the functional ability that enables wellbeing in older age”. All people should be functionally able to meet their basic needs, make independent...

No To Kingship

NEPALI people are sovereign and source of legitimacy for the political parties to govern the nation as stipulated in the constitution which is the outcome of the people’s struggles and movements spanning over seven decades. Nepali Congress, Nepali communist parties and other various groups had launched armed struggles in different phases for liberation and democracy. Thousands of people had sacrificed their lives on the altar of revolutions that finally resulted in the promulgation of inclusive...

Kathmandu gets new Ganesh, Bhairav

The living gods of Kathmandu -- Ganesh and Bhairav -- have been changed. The head priest of Taleju Bhawani Uddhav Karmacharya established four-and-a-half-year-old Rodin Shakya as the new Ganesh and three-and-a-half-year-old Karshanav Shakya as the new Bhairav on Friday and Saturday respectively. Rodin is from Naradevi while Karshanav is from Jaisidewal.

Rights bodies of Nepal, Malaysia to extend collaboration to protect workers’ welfare

To safeguard the rights of the migrant workers, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of Nepal and Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (SUHAKAM) have agreed to extend cooperation between the two rights bodies by a year. On November 14 last year, NHRC and SUHAKAM had signed a joint agreement to strengthen protection for migrant workers, especially in relation to cross-border human trafficking and forced labour and collaborate in protection and promotion of rights of the migrant workers. Commemorating...

Budhanilakantha Temple to open from today

The Budhanilakantha Narayansthan temple is to open for the public from Sunday. It had remained closed since the first lockdown was imposed to control the Corona Virus in late March earlier this year. The temple that remained closed for nine months will open tomorrow to the public by following the prescribed health protocol, said Mathadhis of the Budhanilakantha Narayansthan Dashanami Matha, Mahant Swami Nigamananda. Bagmati provincial assembly member Dipak Niroula and Mayor of Budhanilakantha municipality...

Moves afoot for cutting brick kiln emissions

Roughly five years ago, thousands of brick kilns operated across Nepal in almost medieval conditions. With outdated technology burning low-grade coals for fuels, these traditional kilns belched out tonnes of soot -- darkening the skies, polluting the surrounding environment, and compromising the inhabitants' health. Back then, Movable and Fixed Chimney Bull's Trench Kiln (FCBKT) were the most common design, which as per Prof. Dr. Sanjay Nath Khanal at the Department of Environmental Science and...

Bibaha Panchami celebrated in Janakpur

The auspicious festival of Bibaha Panchami, commemorating the marriage between Lord Ram and Jagat Janani Janaki in the Tretayug, has been observed in Janakpurdham on Saturday amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. The festival was celebrated at the religiously significant Janaki Temple in the Province 2 capital. On Saturday, the main event of the week-long festival – the Swayambar ceremony of Ram and Janaki – was held. In the afternoon, the palanquin of Janaki, also known as Sita, left the Janaki Temple,...

1,175 COVID-19 recoveries, 710 new infections, 12 fatalities in last 24 hours

With 710 new cases of novel coronavirus confirmed on Saturday, the national COVID-19 tally has surged to 253,184.

Bibah Panchami further consolidates goodwill and tolerance: President   

President Bidya Devi Bhandari has expressed the belief that the Bibah Panchami festival, a cultural heritage of the Mithila region has helped further strengthen the good will and tolerance existing in society by generating the sense of national unity among all Nepalis. The Nepali society is the centre of tolerance and civilization since historical times, she said.      The Head of State said this in a message of best wishes she gave on the occasion of the Bibah Panchami festival. On the occasion,...

Congress averts shutdown; fight continues over pandemic aid

Congress passed a two-day stopgap spending bill Friday night, averting a partial government shutdown and buying yet more time for frustratingly slow endgame negotiations on an almost $1 trillion COVID-19 economic relief package. The virus aid talks remained on track, both sides said, but closing out final disagreements was proving difficult. Weekend sessions were on tap, and House leaders hoped for a vote on Sunday on the massive package, which wraps much of Capitol Hill’s unfinished 2020 business...