Ballot paper printing starts for local polls

The Election Commission has started printing ballot papers from Monday for the upcoming local level election slated on May 13. Janak Education Material Centre Ltd., Sanothimi Bhaktapur has started printing ballot papers for the local poll. Speaking at the regular press meet, Election Commission’s Spokesperson Saligram Sharma Poudel said that the printing of the ballot papers would start from today. Stating that a total of 180,000 sample ballot papers have already been printed as a test, Poudel...

S. Korea to take 6,000 plus Nepali workers in 2022

South Korea is likely to take more than 6,000 Nepali workers under the Employment Permit System (EPS) in 2022 – a figure significantly higher compared with COVID-19-disrupted years of 2020 and 2021.

Smooth Supply Of Fuel

It is distressing that there is a depraved practice time and again among traders and suppliers to increase prices of consumer goods, obstruct supplies or create an artificial shortage of such products in the market. This type of unwanted tendency often leaves common consumers in the lurch. Profit seeking people seem to have taken an undue advantage of an unexpected rise in prices of the petroleum products in the domestic and global markets following the escalation of the Russia-Ukraine war. Fuel...

Deuba's India Visit A Fillip To Bilateral Relations

Nepal's friendly ties with India received a fresh fillip after Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's successful three-day visit to India. The first from a Nepali Prime Minister in about four years, Deuba’s official visit saw the two closest neighbours of the region reaching an understanding on many outstanding issues.

Reinvigorating Literacy Campaigns

Nepal has given priority to literacy. In the past, the country’s literacy rate was very low. Girls were hardly sent to school. And the dropout rate was also high. With the passage of time, the successive governments realised the importance of education. The importance of education has spread far and wide so much so that the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (UN) has also stressed quality education (SDG No. 4) as one of the important goals.

Love Or Money

Love is in the air in Libya’s marriage market – and so is a lot of money. In 2021, 25,000 Libyan couples who tied the knot received the equivalent of € 8,000 each from the government as a wedding gift. That added up to an expenditure of € 200 million by the government in an effort to encourage marriages. In 2022, the government intends to hand out a further € 200 million to another 25,000 marrying couples. The Sports Ministry disburses the funds, and aims to make the application process...

Working in river with sand for survival

To say Chisang River is a lifeline for the poor families of Kanepokhari, Morang would be an understatement. It is what feeds their children every day and its stones and sand are what bring money into their homes. “Without the river, there would be no us,” expressed Gole Rishidev.

Ukraine accuses Russia of massacre, city strewn with bodies

Bodies with bound hands, close-range gunshot wounds and signs of torture lay scattered in a city on the outskirts of Kyiv after Russian soldiers withdrew from the area. Ukrainian authorities accused the departing forces on Sunday of committing war crimes and leaving behind a “scene from a horror movie.”

Janakpurdham hosting literature fest

A three-day Janakpurdham Literature, Art and Drama Festival is going to be held in Janakpurdham, the capital of Madhes Province. The festival will be held from April 6 to 8, said Jivanath Chaudhary, chairman of Maithili Development Fund. In the three-day literary festival, experts from Maithili language, literature, art, culture and other subjects of Nepal and India will be invited to determine the issues to be dealt at the policy level, said the organisers.

Hima prepares for child marriage-free status

Hima Rural Municipality, Jumla is working to declare itself a child marriage-free municipality. The municipality said that it will be declared child marriage-free since child marriage has increased social degradation. The executive meeting decision mentioned that the overall situation of the municipality has been reviewed by conducting interaction programme at the municipality level. Chairman of Hima Rural Municipality Raj Bahadur Shahi said that the municipality would be made child marriage-free...