Many salon visitors opt for shaving than trimming

Festivals are when people try to look their best in Nepal, according to parlour shop owner Prashanti Bhusal. “Dashain and Tihar are when people have family gatherings, meet their relatives and take lots of pictures. That is why everyone dresses up and grooms themselves,” she said. But for men though, grooming seems to have taken the form of a shaved head this season. Santosh Thakur, a barber in Bakhumbahal, Lalitpur, said that men, young and old alike, were preferring to shed their hair. “People...

Incentives For Police

Peace, order and stability hold the key to the natural development of society and happiness of citizens. Robust rule of law and a sense of justice not only ensure normalcy but also instil confidence in the people, enabling them to pursue the profession of their choice and live a life of dignity. A quarrelsome family and community hardly sustain the foundation and values of society. Any prevailing system works smoothly only if there is enduring peace. Every society and nation has its inherent formal...

Learning Essential Life Skills

IT has been a decade since I have been creating awareness and campaigning that life skills training need to be part of the high school curriculum. Nepal Government has finally included this as part of the curriculum. Life skills are abilities for adaptive and positive behaviours that enable humans to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of life. This term is also known as psycho-social competency. Ten core life skill strategies as listed by UNESCO and WHO include problem solving, critical...

COVID-19 Offers Chance For Economic Transformation

The economic crisis, triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, is unprecedented in its ubiquity, scale and depth. So, this is expected to have the greatest impact on the world economy since the Great Depression of the 1930s. With major economies such as the USA, Japan and the UK reporting negative GDP growth rates, slump has now become a new buzzword in the global economy. While there is no way to measure this pandemic's actual impact on the global economy as of now, there is widespread unanimity among...

Extensive Use Of Digital Media

Months after the emergence of the coronavirus, the threat of this pandemic still overshadows the world. And Nepalis celebrated Dashain even amidst the fears of infections. This year's Dashain was instead observed by the Nepali community with adherence to social distancing. And it turns out digital media is a blessing in these harrowing times. The world today runs through the threads of internet with people carrying out meetings, conversations, shopping and learning online. At this time of pandemic,...

Taplejung farmers return to millet farming

Farmers in most parts of Taplejung have started cultivating millet. The farmers who had stopped cultivating millet have now started cultivating it again. They had stopped the cultivation of millet due to lack of manpower and being unable to recover the investment of labour. Lately, the farmers have been attracted to millet production after realising that it can be consumed as a food and they can make good income by selling the millet.

COVID-19 fatality crosses 1000 mark with 20 new deaths

The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Tuesday confirmed 3,114 new cases of COVID in the country in the last 24 hours. With this, Nepal’s COVID-19 tally has jumped to 179,614, including 141,134 recoveries and 1,004 deaths.

Participation in social security scheme sees slow growth

The Social Security Fund (SSF) has witnessed a sluggish growth in participation of the private sector employers in the social security of their employees. About 12,876 employer are registered with the SSF by Tuesday. The number of companies that reached the fund in November end last year was 11,669. Likewise, the number of contributors has reached 178,196 from 128,101 some 11 months earlier. The Fund started functioning from mid-July last year.

Dispute in NCP is clash of ego: DPM Pokhrel

Deputy Prime Minister and secretariat member of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Ishwar Pokhrel has said the rope of historic party unification done as per the nation’s need and people’s aspirations should not allow to snap.

Clear COVID-19 insurance payments: FM Paudel

Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel has directed the Nepal Insurance Board and insurance companies to make the payment of the coronavirus insurance claim at the earliest. He asked the stakeholders, including the NIB and Nepal Insurers Association, professional association of insurance companies in the country, to make haste in paying the money to the insured in a meeting at his office at the Ministry of Finance on Tuesday.