Tomato farmers happy after getting good price

Farmers of Sarlahi, known as the town of tomato, are happy to get good price for tomatoes this year. This is the main season of tomato production. Farmers are selling their produce by bringing it to the market. According to the Agriculture Wholesale Market Management Committee, Lalbandi, tomato is being sold at Rs. 1,200 to Rs. 1,250 per crate in Lalbandi Wholesale Vegetable Market. One crate contains 20 kgs of tomatoes. Farmers are now selling tomatoes at Rs. 48 per kg.

Paddy production drops by almost 500,000 tonnes

Paddy production has declined significantly in the country this year, mainly due to massive floods triggered by the unseasonal rains in October, last year. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development (MoALD), paddy production has decreased by 8.74 per cent to 5.13 million tonnes in the fiscal year 2021/22 compared to last year’s production. Paddy output totalled 5.13 million tonnes that is 491,000 tonnes lower than last year’s harvest. A total of 5.621 million tonnes...

NEA staff to get discount on NA flights

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) and Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) for cooperation between the two. The MoU was signed by NEA Managing Director Kul Man Ghising and Executive Chairman of NAC Yubaraj Adhikari on Monday in the presence of Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Prem Bahadur Ale and Secretary Maheshwor Neupane.

Clouds in hills, fog in Terai expected

The Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) has said that weather will remain normal across the country, with the possibility of light snowfall in one or two places of the high hilly and mountainous regions of Province 1, Bagmati Province and Gandaki Province.

Directives issued to check Omicron

In order to prepare against the possible outbreak of Omicron, a new variant of the COVID-19, the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (EDCD), Department of Health Services under the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) has issued a seven-point directive to health institutions. The health directorates in all seven provinces and district health offices in all 77 districts and 753 local levels across the country have been directed to prepare against the possible spread of COVID-19, said...

Resolve For Human Rights

Democracy is a form of governance that alone provides a congenial environment for the protection and realisation of human rights. Its crucial elements include the values of freedom, respect of human rights and the principle of free and fair periodic elections. T

Fighting Money Laundering

Money laundering has been a global problem. This is the conversion of illicit money into legitimate one through various means. The major sources of ill-gotten money are bribery, corruption, trafficking, drug dealing, smuggling, tax evasion, and organised crimes. Money laundering usually takes place in real estate, bullion market, share market and banking sectors. In the past, the scope of money laundering was confined to organised crime only. Now it covers any transactions which generate an asset...

We Are What We Eat

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A Fabulous Creature

Until recently, brought up on positivism and materialism, zoologists and biologists laughed at the beliefs of their ancestors about the existence of a horned hare. Centaurs and other mythical monsters did not fit into the Procrustean bed of Darwin's theory of evolution. Life has outraged the egg-headed offspring of academic science.

Hospitals see surge in flow of cold-related patients

Flow of patients in hospitals of Bhairahawa has increased due to the sharp fall in temperature. Illness caused especially in the cold weather like common cold, pneumonia, fever, and typhoid are being reported in many hospitals in the district. Similarly, extreme cold has affected people's lives in Rupandehi and neighbouring districts.