Government protects private investment: Minister Khand

Minister for Home Affairs Bal Krishna Khand has said that the government was committed to protecting the private investment in public transportation services. “The country always respects the businessmen who play an important role in Nepal’s economy,” Minister Khand said while inaugurating the 6th National General Convention of the National Federation of Nepali Transport Entrepreneurs in Kathmandu on Sunday.

Road to ‘Camp Two’ completes

Road construction work has been completed for scaling the highest peak, Mount Everest. A nine-member team including six icefall doctors sponsored by the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee (SPCC) Namcheka has completed the ascent from the Everest base camp.

Joint efforts needed to resolve economic challenges: Speaker

Speaker of the House of Representatives Agni Prasad Sapkota has said that the current economic challenges should be resolved with joint efforts from the government and private sector. “The national economy is facing a problem at a time when it was recovering from the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic,” he said while addressing the 71st anniversary programme of Nepal Chamber of Commerce (NCC) on Sunday.

Economy in need of positive intervention: Former ministers

Main opposition party - CPN-UML - has said that the country's economy will deteriorate further if effective measures are not adopted immediately. Three former finance ministers of the main opposition party CPN-UML on Sunday made public a 12-point joint statement on the latest economic situation of the country. Organising a press conference on present economic issues, former finance ministers - Bishnu Paudel, Surendra Pandey and Dr. Yubaraj Khatiwada - said that the country's economy was heading...

Rs. 20 million provided to Nepal Police Hospital

Families of former and serving police officers have provided Rs. 20 million as assistance to Nepal Police Hospital, Maharajgunj. According to the Police Headquarters, Inspector General of Police Shailesh Thapa Kshetri handed over a cheque to Additional Inspector General and chief of the Hospital Asha Singh. Visiting Consultant Dr. Bikal Ghimire and the Metropolitan Armed Police Force, Maharajgunj were awarded certificates and shields for their significant contribution in the service delivery of...

Monitor Poll Expenses

Election expenditure in the country has risen to many folds in recent years owing to various reasons. Politicians who have desired to compete in polls have started feeling the heat of rising poll expenditure. Nepali Congress leader Dr. Shashank Koirala felt the same when revealed, the other day, that he had to spend about Rs. 60 million to win the last election as a member of the House of Representatives, though the Election Commission of Nepal (ECN) had then set the limit of election-related expenditure...

Confronting With ‘Shameful Past’

As hosts to the Winter Olympics in February, China became the target of the West griping about that communist country’s human rights records. This is not the first that such an incident occurred. Sporting spectacles, including the summer Olympics, have every now and then been subjected to politicisation since very long.

Education System In Need Of Change

What we are still practicing in the academic institutions of Nepal is what Paulo Freire calls “the ‘banking’ concept of education,” which means “education becomes an act of depositing, in which the students are the depositories, and the teacher is the depositors. Instead of communicating, the teacher issues communications and makes deposits which students patiently receive, memorise, and repeat. Mugging up everything that the teachers preach in class does not help one be a better citizen...

Tourism Reviving Steadily

As anticipated, tourism in Nepal has begun bouncing back steadily with COVID-19 infections and deaths subsiding. As the third wave of the pandemic driven by the Omicron variant was much milder than its previous strains in terms of hospitalisations and fatalities, tourism stakeholders had hoped that the country’s tourism industry would start reviving from this spring.

Chumanuwri locals charter chopper in lack of road

Family members of Uma Gurung, a resident of Ward No. 3 of Chumanuwri Rural Municipality of Gorkha district, had collected Rs. 140,000 to charter a helicopter for transporting her to a hospital in Kathmandu.