New Poll Alignments In Making?

With the local elections approaching nearer, the political parties are apparently bracing for new alignments. Although the current five-party alliance has remained intact to this day, its leaders have started trading barbs against each other over the prospect of poll alliance. A few days back, some Nepali Congress (NC) leaders denigrated the alliance partners and ruled out the possibility of going together in the local polls. Their insulting comments have ruffled a few feathers in the CPN-Maoist...

Ways To Check Colorectal Cancer

Cells in our body normally grow, divide, and then die in order to keep the body healthy and functioning properly. Sometimes this process goes beyond control. Cells keep growing uncontrollably and dividing even when they are supposed to die. Colorectal cancer may develop when the cells lining the colon and rectum multiply uncontrolled. Colon cancer is a type of cancer that starts in the colon (large intestine) or rectum. The large intestine and rectum are the organs that make up the lower portion...

Changing Hues Of Holi

Looking at the way Holi, the festival of colours, was celebrated in Kathmandu this year, it can be said that the trend has changed for the better. Officially, the Holi festival begins with the erection of a multi-coloured chir (pole) on the premises of the Hanumandhoka Durbar Square on Asthami, the eighth day of full moon. The pole remains there for eight days. Though there is no change in official calendar, the Holi revellers in Nepal seemed to have celebrated the festival only for two days. They...

Some traditions do endure despite development

Progress replaces things. It is just a fact of life. Cars replaced animals as the mode of transport, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) replaced firewood in the kitchen and cement replaced traditional building materials. As times change, so do people’s preferences and old things are replaced by new ones. But in Ratuwamai Municipality-5, this does not seem to be the case. In Ratuwamai, people still seem to prefer the old wooden bridge to cross the Bakraha River despite a metallic suspension bridge being...

Tariff of power used in irrigation will be waived: Bhusal

Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Pampha Bhusal has expressed her commitment to making tariff of the electricity used for irrigation free. She made this remark while addressing the 41st annual general meeting of the Federation of Handicraft Associations of Nepal here on Friday. She clarified that she has a plan not to impose tariff on the electricity used for irrigation to make the agricultural sector self-reliant and support the country's economy. Mentioning that the tariff...

Vaccination target met before deadline

Minister for Health and Population Birodh Khatiwada has said that the government target to administer full doses of COVID-19 vaccines to all people aged above 17 years has been met before the set target of mid-April. Inaugurating a basic hospital in Mandandeurali-Kavre on Friday, Minister Khatiwada also urged the people to get booster dose from nearby health centre and keep oneself safe from the pandemic. “Secure your booster dose against COVID-19 from the health centre if you are left out,”...

Discussions underway to control bank interest rates: FM Sharma

Finance Minister Janardan Sharma has said that discussions have been started for controlling the rising interest rate of the banks. The Finance Minister made these remarks after the businessmen started complaining about it while addressing the 55th establishment day of the Lalitpur Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Friday.

The Locomotives Of Local Self-Governance

The Election Commission (EC) has set May 13 as the date of nationwide local elections where about 1.8 million voters are expected to cast their ballots to elect 35,221 local representatives. Leaders of political parties have begun to knock the doors of people to get the whirlwind of messages and reap votes. The 753 local units composed of six metropolises, 11 sub-metropolises, 276 municipalities and 460 rural municipalities are the locomotives that drive local self-governance in Nepal for a tenure...

Children Need To Be More Active At Breaktimes

School breaktimes might be assumed to be the most active period in a child’s school day. The fanciful notion that when the school “bell” rings children flood the playground, running, jumping and actively playing with friends may be based on school stories and older people’s experiences.

Historic Krishna Mandir

Sunday was the birthday of Patan’s famous Krishna Mandir. It was on that day – the 10th day of the bright lunar fortnight of the Nepali month of Falgun – 385 years ago that King Siddhi Narsingh Malla established the 21-pinnacled stone temple and sanctified it through the performance of a Kotyahuti Yagya.