OPINION
How can you be so irresponsible about education?
How can you be so irresponsible about education?
Covid-19 period could be best utilized to bring innovation in teaching and learning. In Nepal, the court and the government are flagrantly playing with future of children, without the slightest compunction.
Dec 14, 2020
NEPAL, SOCIETY
Lower Humla is connected to national road network
Lower Humla is connected to national road network
HUMLA, Dec 14: Humla was the only Himalayan district left to be linked with a national road network. It has now been connected to a road network. Three rural municipalities – Tanjakot, Adanchuli and Sarkegad-- have been connected with the national road network.
Dec 14, 2020
WORLD
India farmers intensify protests as deadlock over new laws continue
India farmers intensify protests as deadlock over new laws c...
MUMBAI/NEW DELHI, Dec 14: Tens of thousands of Indian farmers on Sunday intensified their protests against three new agricultural laws aimed at overhauling food grain procurement and pricing rules by allowing private companies direct access to the vast agrarian sector.
Dec 14, 2020
My City, Entertainment
TikTok Overtakes Facebook to Become 2020’s Most Downloaded App Globally: App Annie
TikTok Overtakes Facebook to Become 2020’s Most Downloaded A...
TikTok overtook Facebook to become the most downloaded app globally in 2020, as per an industry report on mobile trends
Dec 14, 2020
WORLD
How the first life on Earth survived its biggest threat — water
How the first life on Earth survived its biggest threat — wa...
Living things depend on water, but it breaks down DNA and other key molecules. So how did the earliest cells deal with the water paradox?
Dec 14, 2020
OPINION
Costs of Merkel’s surrender to Hungarian and Polish extortion
Costs of Merkel’s surrender to Hungarian and Polish extortio...
The European Union is facing an existential threat, and yet the EU’s leadership is responding with a compromise that appears to reflect a belief that the threat can simply be wished away.
Dec 14, 2020
POLITICS
Former CIAA Chief Basnet sent to judicial custody
Former CIAA Chief Basnet sent to judicial custody
KATHMANDU, Dec 13: Special Court has sent former chief of the Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) Dip Basnyat to judicial custody on his alleged involvement in Lalita Niwas land scam.
Dec 14, 2020
POLITICS
No blanket amnesty for human rights violations: Minister Gyawali
No blanket amnesty for human rights violations: Minister Gya...
KATHMANDU, Dec 13: Minister for Foreign Affairs, Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, has said that there would be no blanket amnesty in the cases of serious human rights violations taken place during the 10-year armed conflict.
Dec 13, 2020
ECONOMY, SOCIETY, Republica Watch, Latest Updates
The bitter story of sweet sugarcane: Farmers not paid for past seven years
The bitter story of sweet sugarcane: Farmers not paid for pa...
“Mill owners took our canes, processed them to sugar, sold it and earned lucrative profits. However, we are still empty-handed. We are neck-deep into debt as we have borrowed money from the local moneylenders and financial institutions.”
Dec 13, 2020
My City, Lifestyle, Food & Drinks
'Owatta': COVID-19 forces closure of Tokyo neighbourhood ramen joint
'Owatta': COVID-19 forces closure of Tokyo neighbourhood ram...
After a hectic day dishing up almost 200 bowls of ramen during a non-stop seven-hour service, Yashiro Haga’s small shop is finally quiet. The 60-year-old takes a moment to himself after bowing goodbye to his final customers, two women Haga has known since elementary school.
Dec 13, 2020