Disaster Vulnerability Of Sindhupalchowk

Nepal being a mountainous country is vulnerable to natural disasters like landslides, flashfloods and soil erosion. Some parts of the country have weaker geological formation than others that increases the degree of devastations from natural calamities like earthquakes and landslips. Sindhupalchowk district is among such disaster vulnerable zones. This monsoon season alone, this district lying northeast of Kathmandu and bordering with the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, witnessed the loss of 72...

Digital Monitoring Of Cooperatives

Cooperatives are considered strong institutions designed to alleviate poverty in rural areas by uplifting the standards of living of the people living there. They are part of the economy and contribute to economic growth in their own way. Still, lack of an effective monitoring mechanism has made some cooperatives wayward. That is why the government has acted briskly on the monitoring front by introducing the COPOMIS (Cooperative and Poverty-related Management Information System) software in 2017....

Why Small Farmers Are Failing

Nepal’s farming community is mostly comprised of small farmers. They possess small holdings, with their entire family members toiling on the farm. Nepal is yet to see industrial scale farming though it employs around 65 per cent of population. The agriculture is the second largest contributor to the GDP but the country always suffers from food shortage. Small farmers do not get required incentives from the state. As a result, the country does not produce the desired amount of grains, let alone...

Virus Spares None

The COVID-19 pandemic knows no border. Neither does it discriminate among the people. It treats all equally – be they rich or poor, the powerful or layperson. It has imparted us a big lesson: health is far worthier than anything else. The dreadful virus is raging all over the world, making our life tumultuous. Each day we hear shocking news about it. As the coronavirus strangles powerful figures in one part of world, it sends chills down the spine of people living in other corner, exposing human...

Nigaul Gai cow farm faces fund shortage to feed cows

Nigaul Gai Gaushala (cow farm) in Gaushala Municipality of Mahottari district has been facing an acute shortage of funds to feed its cows. The farm has sufficient land and had a source of income in the past, but now it is facing a shortage of funds even to feed the cows. The management of the Nigaul Gai Gaushala has been forced to reach out to donors for funds to buy food for the cows. Radhe Shyam Khanal, acting chief of the Nigaul Gai Gaushala management office, said there was a problem in feeding...

Centenarian Thimi woman beats COVID-19

A 101-year-old woman from Madhyapur Thimi Municipality Ward No. 6, Pachoki, beat the coronavirus infection in 16 days. Ganesh Maya Prajapati, who was confirmed COVID-19 positive on September 20, tested negative for virus in 16 days. Her son, Indra Bahadur Prajapati, said the result of Ganesh Maya's latest test for COVID-19 on Friday came negative. 

Tripartite agreement signed to upgrade Biratnagar Airport

A tripartite agreement was signed on Monday to upgrade the Biratnagar Airport to international standard. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN), the state government and the Biratnagar Metropolitan City at a function organised by the CAAN in Biratnagar. The MoU was signed in the presence of Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Kumar Bhattarai, Chief Minister of State 1 Sherdhan Rai and all the ministers and Mayor of...

Woman gives birth to quintuplets

A 28-year-old woman gave birth to five babies at Paropakar Maternity and Women's Hospital, Thapathali, on Monday. Somika Tamang, 28, from Nuwakot gave birth to the quintuplets through caesarean section. “Of the five neonates, four are healthy while one was delivered dead,” informed Dr. Sangita Mishra, director of the hospital. Dr. Mishra informed that one of the babies was found dead during 28 weeks of Tamang’s pregnancy.

Tatopani border opens, six containers enter Nepal

Tatopani border point between Nepal and China, which had remained closed for three months, has reopened from Monday. Chief Customs Officer at the Tatopani Customs Office Lal Bahadur Khatri said that six Chinese containers carrying clothes and raw materials entered Nepal this morning. “Goods in Khasa area were dropped by the Chinese customs agents at the Miteri Bridge and the Nepali workers loaded the goods in 12 containers after the Chinese containers unloaded them,” he said. Officials of...

NA opens track at Ghantibagar: mobility of Chhangru, Tinkar locals made easy

In absence of the track, locals of Chhangru and Tinkar were compelled to go round the way through India to reach their homes from Khalanga.