Mrs. Tamang Nepal 2020 audition concludes

Audition of Mrs. Tamang Nepal 2020 has concluded. The beauty contest is being organised with the objective of developing the overall personality of the married women of the Tamang community, including their art, culture and language. The audition was held in the presence of jury, including international choreographer Rojin Shakya, social worker Robin Tamang, director and artiste Roshan Fuba, artiste Samir Tamang, Mrs. Tamang 2016 Shanti Tamang, Mrs. Tamang-2018 Palsang Tamang and others. Shanta...

Aditya Narayan marries Shweta

Aditya Narayan, son of singers Udit Narayan and Deepa Jha has tied nuptial knot with his girlfriend actress Shweta Agrawal. According to the Indian media, the wedding held in a Mumbai-based temple with only 50 guests on Monday.

Big Leap In Health Sector

On Monday, Nepal made a historic stride in the health sector. The government laid the foundation stone for basic hospitals in 309 local units and communicable disease hospitals in three states. It was the part of the setting up five to 15-bed hospitals in all 396 local units. The construction of the hospitals in the remaining local units will start once they acquire the land for the same. These new health facilities will ensure quality and affordable health services to all people. The programme and...

NCP In Document Dilemma

Factional rift in the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has refused to die down as the party has found it in complete disarray with the presentation of two separate political documents. According to the political analysts, the documents are a bundle of disparagement heaped by the two NCP chairs on each other, which have only exacerbated existing differences among the party bigwigs who are now out to hurt the stature of the opponents, instead of thrashing out an enduring solution to safeguard the...

16-Day Campaign: A Spark In Dark

The advent of November brings mixed feelings in my mind. The first feeling is of depression that every year a 16-Day Campaign still needs to be launched to end all forms of violence against women and girls globally. The despair is because no matter how educated people are and how much the world is advancing in terms of science, technology and change of culture and traditions, the age-old violence against women and girls and the most vulnerable population continues to happen in old and new forms everywhere....

Combatting Climate Change

Recently, there were several news reports trending in social media about climate change and environmental sustainability. Despite lockdowns worldwide, carbon dioxide in the air isn’t declining but is instead at an increasingly high level. Emissions have shrunk by eight per cent this year and yet the CO2 averages have been recorded at 411 parts per million. This is quite alarming. To avoid catastrophic climate change-related disasters, it is important to limit carbon emissions. In response, numerous...

Bashistha’s Nepalology released

On the occasion of the Lumbini Kapilvastu Day, journalist Kedar Bashistha released his book Nepalology: Principle and Applications on Tuesday. The 444-page book published by Vidyarthi Pustak Bhandar was launched by the author’s mother Kedar Kumari Bhattarai and centenarian culture expert and writer Satya Mohan Joshi. Tradition of marking the Lumbini Kapilvastu Day has begun since 2009 commemorating the rediscovery of the Ashoka pillar on December 1, 1893 by German scholar Dr. Alois Anton Fuhrer...

Legal hunting in Dhorpatan

One Himalayan Blue Sheep and one Himalayan Tahr were hunted in Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve in the first hunting season of the year. Warye Frederic Dark, a Belgian citizen, hunted the two animals in the Dhustung block of the hunting reserve. Amrit Thapa, director of Nepal Travels and Expeditions – the company that managed Dark’s hunting trip to Dhorpatan, said that the government collected Rs. 361,500 in revenue this season from the hunters hunting the Blue Sheep and Tahr.

55% construction work at Chobhar dry port completes

Almost 55 percent construction work under international competitive bidding and 58 per cent under national competitive bidding section on dry port at Chobhar in Kirtipur Municipality-6 have completed. The dry port is being constructed in two sections -- under the national and under the international competitive bidding. The physical infrastructures related to dry port is being constructed at the bottom of Chobhar hill and other quarters -- building and official building -- are being constructed...

Govt focuses on construction, expansion, upgrading of all airports, says Bhattarai

Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Bhattarai has said that the government has prioritised the upgrading and expansion of all airports. “As air connectivity is vital for tourism development, the government has expedited the construction, expansion and upgrading of airports across the country,” he said while inaugurating the newly constructed plane parking area at Nepalgunj Airport on Tuesday.