Managing street vendors still a hard nut to crack

A proper footpath is hard to be seen in Kathmandu and those available are mostly crowded – not just with pedestrians, but also with street vendors. However, this is nothing new. What’s new, however, is that the numbers of street vendors have only been increasing over the years.

Russians push deeper into Mariupol as locals plead for help

Russian forces pushed deeper into Ukraine’s besieged and battered port city of Mariupol on Saturday, where heavy fighting shut down a major steel plant and local authorities pleaded for more Western help.

UK Police hand over two cultural artifacts

Detective Superintendent John Roch from the Metropolitan Police of London handed over two cultural artifacts of Nepal to Gyan Chandra Acharya, Ambassador of Nepal to the United Kingdom, amid a programme organised at the Embassy on Friday.

Satya Mohan Joshi’s biography launched

How do you capture the 102 years of life as multidimensional and multifaceted as Satya Mohan Joshi’s in a few thousand hours? How do you convey the emotions, reflect the emotions and introduce people to a personality who has been in the public eye for more than half a century? The way journalist and writer Girish Giri did in his latest book ‘Satyamohan’ launched here on Friday.

EITV 2022 in Kirtipur

Echoes in the Valley (EITV) is a unique aesthetical experience that celebrates diverse traditions, ethnicities and communal activities with music as the centerpiece of the event. Initiated in 2017, this annual festival, in a short span of time, has diligently created a reputation as one of the prestigious music celebrating platforms in the country. A brainchild of the members of Kanta Dab Dab, a Kathmandu-based World Fusion trio comprising Sunit Kansakar on sitars, Rizu Tuladhar on bass and Nikhil...

Chilli cultivation booming

Farmers of Falgunanda Rural Municipality-4, Chillingden of Panchthar have been cultivating Habanero Chilli popularly known in Nepal as Akbare Khursani using mulching plastic. The attraction of farmers towards the use of this modern technology is also increasing as they know that it will greatly simplify the traditional complex farming system. More than 400 farmers in Chillingden, which is a pocket area of Akbare, have been planting chillies in mulching plastic for the past three years.

FM Sharma urges CIT to invest in big infrastructure projects

Finance Minister Janardan Sharma has said that the investable amount of the Citizens Investment Trust (CIT) should be mobilised for the national infrastructure project. The work of keeping money in banks and financial institutions by the CIT should be stopped, he said while addressing the 32nd anniversary of CIT on Friday. Stating that the capital formation by institutions like the CIT should be made effective, Minister Sharma said that the country needs to raise Rs. 1,700-2,000 billion now for...

NC CWC meeting called for March 25

Ruling Nepali Congress has called its Central Working Committee meeting on March 25 to discuss the local election. Party chief secretary Krishna Prasad Paudel on Saturday informed that the meeting will be held on March 25 at the party’s central office, Sanepa of Lalitpur.

Handicraft training for Damak women

The Damak Municipality of Jhapa has intensified handicraft training programme for women of the city to make them self-reliant. The municipal office has been conducting the training under its 'Women of Damak City, First in Entrepreneurship’ programme. Within a month, the municipality has engaged 50 women in production by organising two such trainings.

Uphold Non-aligned Foreign Policy

Ever since Nepal joined the United Nations in 1955, it has strictly adhered to non-aligned foreign policy. In a world that has witnessed several wars, a cold war between the superpowers, the US and the USSR, and is polarised between the Western and non-Western blocs, the Himalayan nation's neutral stance and adherence to the Panchsheel have proved a milestone for Nepal in enhancing its international image and its own well-being. Nepal has been a prominent champion of world peace and the backer of...