As Long As Lockdown Lasts

Confessing might be unfashionable, but this laptop tapper risks portraying a picture of an undignified good-for-nothing fellow without the taste and habit of positive thinking, creative imagination or intelligence for introspection. Generally cornered by the COVID-19 pandemic to be placed under a long spell of semi- or full lockdown within the four walls of one’s residence, one gets a fleeting glimpse of certain aspects of what life could be. The perception is purely personal, as it cannot represent...

Place Of Experience In Diplomacy

When I picked ‘Nepal’s Diplomatic Practices: Experiences of Diplomats’ from a book stall, I was not sure the book was what it is. Its editor, Bishnu Rijal, a Central Committee Member of Nepal Communist Party (NCP), not only humbled me but also proved my hesitation wrong. With the collection of experiences of 20 former ambassadors,

WTO Ruling Against US

A panel of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) recently ruled against the United States in its tariff dispute with China. The U.S. was determined to have violated rules and its own public commitment by unilaterally launching a Section 301 investigation and threatening punitive tariffs against China, which led up to the unprecedented trade war. In accordance with WTO rules, no member is permitted to take unilateral measures to cancel tariff concessions or forfeit other obligations without the authorisation...

We make haste in launching projects: NPC Vice-Chairman

The COVID-19 has taken a heavy toll on every sector of society and economy. While it has posed a serious threat to the health and life of citizens, it has battered business, industry and development at all levels. The budget execution and development performance are underachieved and there are no symptoms of early economic revival. Work at some large development projects is either halted or slowed despite the efforts to take the human resources and construction materials to the site. In such a scenario,...

Budget released for construction of industrial villages in 45 local levels

The Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies has released budget to 45 local levels for the construction of industrial villages As per a Cabinet decision to build the industrial villages in 45 local levels, the ministry has released Rs. 9.2 million to each local unit for infrastructure development in the proposed industrial villages, said Urmila KC, spokesperson at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies.

Pokhara’s schoolgirl social worker

Eight-year-old Prensa Regmi from Birauta, Pokhara is using her free time for social work. From the very start of the lockdown in March, she started garnering praise for distributing surgical masks at a nominal cost to those who could pay and totally free to those who couldn’t. Prensa studies in Pokhara’s Sishu Niketan Boarding School and is currently in the third grade. With the school closed due to the lockdown, she decided to utilise her time to contribute to the society. So, she used Rs....

Now no stream-based education in grade 11 and 12

Unveiling the new curriculum of grade 11 and 12 recently, the Curriculum Development Centre of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MOEST) has eliminated the stream-based education in schools. The new policy and structure of the school level education has formally ended the stream-based education like Science, Management, Humanities, Law and Education and made English, Nepali and Social Study compulsory in grade 11 and Life Skill, English and Nepali in grade 12. This new curriculum...

Nepal’s COVID-19 recovery rate 72.10%, death rate 0.64%

The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Sunday confirmed 1325 new cases of COVID-19 in the country in the last 24 hours. With this, the national official COVID-19 tally has reached 64,122. In 9,584 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 767 persons, 305 females and 462 males, were found with the novel coronavirus infection in the Kathmandu Valley alone, according to the daily update of the MOHP today. On the other hand, though Nepal has been witnessing...

Telemedicine becomes popular amid fear of virus transmission

As the coronavirus outbreak has hit all health institutions across the country, online medical services have become a valuable means for connecting patients and doctors without any stress to visit the doctors in person amid the risk of virus transmission. People in urban centres as well as those living in the rural areas are now enjoying the online medical consultation for their problems. Telemedicine has made it possible for people in some of the remotest parts of Nepal to get specialist consultation...

Maharani wins Madan Puraskar, Shanti Thatal Jagadamba Shree

The novel “Maharani” by Chandra Prakash Baniya has won the Madan Puraskar for the year 2076 BS. A meeting of the Madan Puraskar Guthi on Sunday decided to honour the book with the most prestigious literary prize of Nepal, according to a statement issued by the Guthi. “Maharani” is a fictional novel revolving around fraternal conflict, power and love in one of the principalities of the historic Baise and Chaubise Rajya that existed in Nepal around three centuries ago. The book was selected...