Protect Poor From Cold

Sudden fall in temperature is one of the extreme weather phenomena which adversely affects the health and general life of the people, especially the poor and vulnerable. If the fall in temperature is unusually large and rapid in short period of time (for example in 24 hours) the phenomenon is called cold wave. In Nepal, such weather extremities are being more frequent in recent decades, thanks to the impact of global temperature rise and climate change. Since l

Language As Medium Of Social Change

Regarding the language of political correctness, it would be worthwhile to refer to G.B. Shaw’s Pygmalion (1913). In this play, the playwright presented a character named Henry Higgins, Professor of Phonetics, who would like to improve the English society by teaching the Englishmen how to speak good English. As he saw a street flower-selling girl named Elizabeth Doolittle, he noticed that she spoke cockney dialect, which he thought was bad English. Then he decided to teach her to speak like a duchess...

Women’s Battle For Leadership

The number of women holding political offices in Nepal has been significantly increasing. Similarly, although the number of women holding political positions in the USA grew substantially in the last two decades, men still outnumber women by more than 5-to-1 ratio.

Winter Woes

Previous week, there was a heavy winter rainfall in most parts of Nepal including Kathmandu. Since Kathmandu valley is situated at an elevation of 1400 m, it gets quite cold and chilly in winter. And past week saw people fretting in the very chilling rain. Fortunate ones could stay indoors while those who had to go about their routine layered themselves with sweaters, jackets, coats and gloves.

DRI files cases against accused in Baluwatar land scam

The Department of Revenue Investigation (DRI) has filed a case against the accused of the Lalita Niwas land scam at the Patan High Court, Lalitpur, on Tuesday. The case is filed against Shova Kanta Dhakal, Saroj Dhakal, Uma Kumari Dhakal, Santu Shrestha and Rajeswor Shrestha. The Dhakals and Santu are the proprietors of the Ansan International Pvt. Ltd while Rajeshwor is an auditor.

Another winter rain expected from Thursday

Right after one-week of westerly impact, another fresh new weather system of the westerly wind has been developed in Nepal since Tuesday. Meteorologists predict the effects of the western low pressure system will last until Saturday and there will be possibility of more rain in Far-west and light rain in the Mountain and snowfall in the Himalayan region. The Meteorological Forecasting Division under the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) Tuesday issued a special bulletin urging people...

Omicron upends return to US schools and workplaces

Some school systems around the U.S. extended their holiday break Monday or switched back to online instruction because of the explosion in COVID-19 cases, while others pressed ahead with in-person classes amid a seemingly growing sense that Americans will have to learn to co-exist with the virus.

Mohana flood victims fight bitter cold in tents

Madgari Chaudhary, wife of Atwari Chaudhary, has been seriously ill. A patient of uterus cancer, Atwari has been unable to wake up from bed for a year. After the Forest Division Office demolished their hut by using bulldozers, Chaudhary is worried as to how he could save his ailing wife from the freezing cold.

Narainapur to distribute gas cylinders, stoves to 95,000 households

With the formation of local level under the leadership of Istiyak Ahammad Shah, the condition of Narainapur Rural Municipality, which was previously supposed to be the most backward area in Banke district, has improved significantly. Locals said that significant progress has been made in improving the living standards of the people, in developing infrastructure and in the areas of education and health.

NOC is service oriented enterprise: Secretary

Secretary at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies Dinesh Bhattarai has said that the Nepal Oil Corporation, which is a government-owned enterprise, is not a for-profit organisation but a service-oriented one. Speaking at an interaction on 'Easy Supply of Petroleum Products and Automatic Pricing System' organised by Society of Economic Journalists-Nepal on Sunday, Bhattarai said that the Corporation was not profit-oriented so if the Corporation earned profit, it would go to the state's...