Madhes, Bagmati provinces complete preparations for NA election

Preparations for the election of the National Assembly (NA) has completed in Madhes Province. The voting for election of NA member is being held in Janakpurdham, capital of Madhes Province, on Wednesday.

Major Issue Of Minors

In the face of various efforts being made by the government and social organisations to provide proper care and guidance to children in Nepal, many juveniles are still susceptible to different crimes. As per the country's Juvenile Act, 2018, those below 18 years are considered children. It is worrisome that a lot of children are at higher risk of falling prey to offenses like sexual and drug abuses owing to the existing inequalities and COVID-19. They are also likely to be involved in other crimes...

Quandary Over Election Dates

After the issue of holding three-tier elections cropped up recently, ruling party partners found themselves in a quandary. As the confusion over the dates of these elections persisted, some coalition members declared the next Nepali year - 2079 B.S.- will be the election year when the nation will go to the polls the whole hog. According to them, the next Nepali year will see elections at all 753 local levels, seven state assemblies, the federal parliament, or the House of Representatives.

Eliminating Vaccine Hesitancy

Two years on, COVID-19 has not shown any signs of abatement. If anything, the respiratory contagion has affected the world beyond people’s wildest dreams with the emergence of one variant after the other. Now, over 350 million people have been infected with over 5.6 million deaths worldwide. The world is now mainly in the grip of Omicron and Delta variants. The Omicron variant can spread from person to person faster than any other variants. However, its effects are milder than those of Delta and...

Missing The Plot

When devastating floods struck Zhengzhou in central China in August 2021, BBC journalists reporting on the disaster claimed that they encountered a lot of verbal abuse, both online and in real life. Chinese netizens accused BBC journalist Robin Brant of factual distortion and rumour-mongering at first, but things got slightly more out of hand as they resulted in a standoff between the BBC team and a group of angry locals. A statement issued by the BBC after the happenings claimed that their reporters...

Man City's winning streak is over, United break into top four

Manchester City's seemingly unstoppable charge to the Premier League title slowed slightly as they were held to a 1-1 draw at Southampton on Saturday, snapping a 12-match winning sequence that had distanced their rivals.

Cruise ship changes course after US judge orders seizure

A cruise ship that was supposed to dock in Miami has instead sailed to the Bahamas, after a U.S. judge granted an order to seize the vessel as part of a lawsuit over $4 million in unpaid fuel.

Weather to remain cloudy till Tuesday

A locally developed low pressure system for the past two days has been causing partly to generally cloudy with light rainfall in western and far-western parts of Nepal and snowfall in high mountainous and hilly regions, Meteorologists said Sunday.

Pandemic puts mother, child nutrition at risk: UNICEF

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said that Nepal’s significant progress in nutrition of mothers and children is at risk due to current inequities and COVID-19 pandemic. Nepal achieved globally renowned progress in reducing child stunting and scaling up nutrition services during the Millennium Development Goals era (2002 -2016), despite periods of political and economic instability, according to a special supplement of the Maternal and Child Nutrition Journal published by UNICEF...

Justice execution from local levels effective in Rupandehi district

The process of justice execution has become effective after the formation of judicial committees in local levels of Rupandehi district. As many disputes are being resolved at the local levels without going to the court, the flow of cases in the court has also reduced. The judicial committees also claim that it is easier for the parties in dispute to get their issues resolved at local levels.