Use of machine makes crushing sugarcane easy

Until last year, the farmers in Chainpur Municipality, Sankhuwasabha, had to depend on oxen to crush sugarcane planted there. In order to boil around 150 liters of jaggery, the oxen had to be rotated on traditional machine called ‘Pecha’ for more than three hours. But this year, the problem of having to spend hours is over after the municipality provided sugarcane crushing machine to the farmers on cost sharing basis, reducing the time from three hours to one hour.

Western Nepal gets first neuro hospital in Nepalgunj

Nepalgunj Neuro, Trauma and Multispecialty Centre, the first neuro hospital of western Nepal, has come into operation in Nepalgunj since Monday. With the establishment of the hospital, patients now need not go to Indian cities and the federal capital, Kathmandu, to receive neurological treatment.

‘Political willpower, not elections, ensures stability’

Former chief election commissioners and experts have said that elections alone do not ensure stability of the government and good governance. They cited lack of political willpower and confidence for the inability of any government to complete a full term of five years in Nepal. "Stability and good governance are not related to the electoral systems," former chairman of the Nepal Law Commission Madhav Poudel said at an interaction on 'Reforms in electoral system and management' organised virtually...

There will not be vaccine shortage: Health Minister

Minister for Health and Population (MoHP) Birodh Khatiwada has said that the nation would not face shortage of vaccines against COVID-19. Minister Khatiwada, who reached Hetauda after visiting Terai districts by leading an execution team of the vaccination campaign, said on Wednesday that the anti-coronavirus vaccines were in stock with the government and procedures were underway to bring in additional vaccines.

Seed change a must to increase paddy production: Experts

Experts have pointed out the need for changing the current seed of paddy to meet the growing demand for paddy in the Nepal. They said this at a programme organised by the Prime Minister Agriculture Modernisation Project, Implementation Unit, Chitwan on Tuesday. Scientist of National Rice Research Programme Dr. Ram Baran Yadav pointed out that seed change was the need of the hour to increase paddy production.

Restrictions For Safety

The District Administration Offices (DAOs) of Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur on Tuesday issued an order, prohibiting all the social gatherings and events such as mass assemblies, conferences and seminars, and the like that pull crowds. This order comes amid an alarming spread of coronavirus lately, notably its Omicron variant. The DAOs have asked to conduct all sorts of meetings in virtual forms. In case the physical attendance of people is required, the gathering of 50 people has been allowed....

Have No Dilemma On Local Polls

The political clock in Nepal turns back to almost two decades back when the parties had been embroiled into the issues and controversies bearing upon the destiny of the local government. As the five-year term of the local governments -- village development committees (VDCs), municipalities and district development committees (DDCs) -- was nearing completion in those days, political parties were weighing in the realpolitik pros and cons of whether to keep the local governments alive and going taking...

Prioritise Public Education

Every nation prioritises education because it is the precursor to national prosperity and success. It is always a sine qua non to a healthy society. Public education is the marker of the social and economic standard of any nation. However, in Nepal, many people are concerned about the state of public education. The chasm between private and public education in the country has now been widened due to the failure to reform s

Life Underground: Reality Or Utopia?

The problems of overpopulation and the threat of various disasters - from climatic to nuclear and space - are increasingly making us think about alternative spaces for life. Alas, space has not yet been mastered by us to such an extent as to build colonies o

New York AG says Trump’s company misled banks, tax officials

The New York attorney general’s office late Tuesday told a court its investigators had uncovered evidence that former President Donald Trump’s company used “fraudulent or misleading” asset valuations to get loans and tax benefits.