President, PM Deuba extend best wishes for Holi festival  

President Bidya Devi Bhandari has wished happiness, peace and prosperity to all the brothers and sisters living at home and abroad on the auspicious occasion of the great festival of Nepalis, Phagu Purnima or Holi.

NC distributes booklet on MCC to dispel confusions

Ruling Nepali Congress has started distributing a booklet “MCC grant assistance agreement: illusion and fact” to the people. Party’s representatives mobilised in the first phase election campaign for the local level election are distributing the booklet.

Experts highlight ways for digital archiving of Gorkhapatra

Discussions have started on digitally archiving the editions of the 121-year-old Gorkhapatra and the 57-year-old The Rising Nepal. At the digital archive workshop organised by the Gorkhapatra Corporation in Dhulikhel, experts from various fields stressed the need for archiving and preserving the copies of the two national dailies digitally.

Boost Technology Transfer

Technology is one of the key drivers of development. The innovation of new scientific knowledge and technology has facilitated the agriculture, industrial and digital revolution, bringing qualitative changes to the life of people. The development of nations is largely determined by how advanced technology they employ in construction works, governance matters, economic transactions and communication system. Modern transportation syste

Save TU From Unsolicited Politics

Tribhuvan University seems to be caught up into a kind of tangle. A spectrum of strikes, halts and forced closures keep it prorogued for a considerable period of the academic years throwing its academic calendars into an abeyance. Accordingly, TU’s major administrative and academic functions have been put on hold during these months on account of the fact that the offices of the Vice Chancellor (VC), Registrar and Rector have been padlocked. VC, Rector and Registrar have been barred from carrying...

Breaking Indoctrination Culture

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Teachers To Bring Guns To Schools

A new law in the U.S. state of Texas forces schools to allow any and all teachers to bring guns on school grounds. The law also encourages parishioners to bring guns to church. The United States has long been known for its fanatical gun culture, and among the 50 states, Texas is one of the craziest. With the new law, some schools are going farther than just allowing teachers to bring guns; they are actively encouraging teachers to do so. Micah Lewis, superintendent of schools in Grand Saline,...

63.7 % of population fully vaccinated against COVID

Nepal has fully vaccinated 63.7 per cent of its population against COVID-19 as of today. The vaccination campaign had started on January 27 last year. The government is intensifying vaccination campaign in full swing as it aims to fully vaccinate 100 per cent of those above 18 years by mid-April.

Russia steps up assaults as Ukraine appeals for more help

Russia escalated its bombardment of the Ukrainian capital and launched new assaults on the port city of Mariupol, making bloody advances on the ground as Ukraine’s president prepared Wednesday to make a direct appeal for more help in a rare speech by a foreign leader to the U.S. Congress.

Ukraine sees room for compromise, as 20,000 escape Mariupol

Ukraine said it saw possible room for compromise in talks with Russia despite Moscow’s stepped up bombardment Tuesday of Kyiv and new assaults on the port city of Mariupol, from where an estimated 20,000 civilians managed to flee through a humanitarian corridor.