US, Israel worked together to track and kill al-Qaida No. 2

The United States and Israel worked together to track and kill a senior al-Qaida operative in Iran earlier this year, a bold intelligence operation by the two allied nations that came as the Trump administration was ramping up pressure on Tehran.

Kathmandu Valley records 1,946 new cases of COVID-19

The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Saturday confirmed 1,946 new cases of COVID-19 in Kathmandu Valley.

Nepal's COVID-19 tally hits 208,299 with 1,946 new infections

"In 8,753 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 1,946 persons, 816 females and 1,130 males, were found to have been infected with SARS-CoV-2," informed the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) in its update.

Oregon, New Mexico order lockdowns as other states resist

The governors of Oregon and New Mexico ordered near-lockdowns Friday in the most aggressive response yet to the latest wave of coronavirus infections shattering records across the U.S., even as many of their counterparts in other states show little appetite for reimposing the hard-line restrictions of last spring.

Street vendors selling colours, flowers amid crowded buyers

Subham Yadav was selling colours for the festival of Tihar by displaying colour on the footpath in New Road, Kathmandu on Friday afternoon when Kathmandu Municipal Police personnel approached him and asked him to remove his shop. Yadav had no choice but to leave. "I knew they would come, but it was the only way I know to earn some money and celebrate Tihar with my small family. I now have to go somewhere else and start selling colours again. I hope the police won’t take away my investment." Yadav,...

Walnut production makes Humla farmers rich

Income of the farmers of Humla district has increased due to good production of walnut this year. When the market of walnut is good, all the production was sold and the wallets of the farmers in the district have swollen. Farmer Jor Bohara, who has planted four plants of walnut, said that he earned Rs. 200,000 by selling walnut this year. About 20,000 pieces of walnut were produced in his four walnut trees. He said that the walnut has become a good source of additional income after the plants...

Construction of ICP starts in Nepalgunj

Works on the Integrated Customs Check Post (ICP) along the Nepal-India border area in Nepalgunj has begun. Krishna Gopal Shrestha, Minister of Urban Development of Nepal and Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce and Industry of India, jointly inaugurated the construction of the ICP through video conference on Thursday. Addressing the event via video conference, Minister Shrestha said that the project would help strengthen the ties between the two countries and prove to be a milestone in Nepal's economic...

Overcoming The Cultural Cringe Essential

The ability of individuals to carry on social learning of tradition, ideals, norms, habits and symbols and its transmission to posterity shapes a nation’s culture and adjustment to predictable behaviour. De-acculturation, by contrast, breeds anomies and inferiority of one’s own culture defined as cultural cringe. The injection of modernity in Nepal helped its leaders, political pundits, policy makers and writers to internalise the Western epistemological order in both

What Might Biden's Asia Policy Look Like?

he U.S. presidential election is seemingly over. Despite denials from President Donald Trump, Democratic candidate Joe Biden has declared victory and is looking ahead to the White House in January. With this comes an obvious shift in policy which on the back of his predecessor, will set out a new vision for America and seek to undo many of Trump's approaches to both domestic and foreign affairs. But the question is: What things will change? And to what extent? Priorities

Trump Lost, Trumpism Won

The people of the United States of America (USA) have spoken and they want Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. as their next president. Instead of conceding his defeat in the election, incumbent president Donald Trump has filed numerous lawsuits, challenging the election results. But presuming that they go nowhere, Joe Biden is likely to be inaugurated as the 46th President of the USA on January 20. However, Biden’s election does not mean Trump’s rejection. In fact, Trump won the second-highest number...