Help Entrepreneurs Survive In Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has had its adverse impacts on various sectors of the nation, the industries and entrepreneurship being one of the major areas among them. Normal human activities had to come under restriction for health safety reasons. Saving lives came under pressing obligation of the governments all over world including Nepal. We live in an economically inter-connected world today and a halt in normal works naturally had its devastating effect on businesses. Due to lockdowns and other forms...

NCP Stares At Break-up

With intra-party crisis reaching a new nadir, the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has stared at a possible split. Many rounds of dialogues held between the two chairpersons and other top stalwarts have so far failed to produce desired results. Amidst the deepening crisis, the chairmen duo has remained busy holding parleys among their confidants to find the peremptory ways to nullify the 'moves' of others.  The issue of possible break-up received widespread coverage after Prime Minister and...

China's Global Influence Factors In US Election

With a 198-member Central Committee and 166 alternate members, the ruling Communist Party of China, led by President Xi Jinping, discussed a five-year plan and vision for 2035 from October 26 to 29. Coinciding with this mammoth brainstorming meeting, US Foreign Secretary Mike Pompeo was on a trip to the South Asian countries - India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Indonesia and Vietnam from October 25 to 30. Pompeo was accompanied by US Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper It shows that the US has attached...

UK’s Poverty Soars

This year’s International Day for the Eradication of Poverty went largely unnoticed in Britain, as so often in the past. The fight against poverty has barely figured in political and public debate since the defeat of the Labour government in 2010. The downward trends in household and child poverty have turned upwards since the onset of austerity policies to pay for the bail-out of Britain's banking and financial system. The contrast with China co

Qatar Prince’s team attempting Mt. Amadablam

Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdullah of Qatar has reached the base camp to climb Mt. Amadablam (6,812m) in Solukhumbu. A 14-member team including Prince Sheikh Mohammad, who arrived in Nepal a few days ago, has reached the base camp of Amadablam peak. Ishwori Poudel, managing director of Himalayan Guides Nepal, said that a team of Americans and Canadians, including the Prince of Qatar, had reached the base camp to climb Amadablam, which is considered to be the most beautiful mountain of the world...

Sahani makes a living by fishing in Mohana River

It has been a long time since Bali Sahani, 58, has sacrificed his sleep in the morning. He goes out to fish in the Mohana River every morning at around 3 am. As long as it is bright, the glow of happiness on Sahani's face comes only if he catches enough fish. "If I can't catch enough fish, I can't make a living," he said. "I am raising my family by selling fish caught in this river." Sahani from Sarlahi has been fishing in Kailali for two decades. He has been making a living by fishing in the Mohana...

How to differentiate COVID-19, flu and common cold ?

With winter approaching, Nepal is entering the cold and flu season. The illnesses are common enough and in normal years, would not have been a big deal. But 2020 is not a normal year and with the COVID-19 pandemic raging on around us, winter has the potential to raise many public health challenges. Sharing similar symptoms like cough, fever and body aches, people might mistake coronavirus infections for common cold or flu, which can largely be managed at home without the need for serious medical...

Over 4,700 children infected with COVID-19

More than 4,700 children aged below 10 years have been infected with COVID-19 in Nepal. According to the latest data of the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), among the 173,567 infected people, 4,777 are children aged below 10 years. Among them, 2,824 are boys and 1,953 girls.

A black pond where people fear to go near

Bhoot Pokhari, which literally means the Ghost Pond, is a religiously important body of water in Jiri Municipality - 1. It is a scenic location at an altitude of 4,473 metres in the middle of a beautiful forest that can become a tourism centre. But nobody goes there. In fact, people are afraid to even look at the pond. This is because doing so is believed to invite the wrath of ghosts. Ward No. 1 Chairman Lakpa Sherpa explained, “It is said that he who goes near the pond will get eaten by ghosts....

Kabul University attack: Nineteen dead, more wounded after gunmen storm Afghan campus

Nineteen people have been killed by gunmen who stormed Kabul University before engaging security forces in an hours-long battle on Monday.