POLITICS, SOCIETY
SC stays citizenship for offspring of Dev panel beneficiaries
SC stays citizenship for offspring of Dev panel beneficiarie...
KATHMANDU, April 27: The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the distribution of citizenship by descent to the offspring of those who were given citizenship by birth under a special one-time decision taken some 12 years ago.
Apr 27, 2019
SOCIETY
Multiple errors in school textbooks, govt unaware
Multiple errors in school textbooks, govt unaware
KATHMANDU, April 27: The government has shown negligence over multiple errors in the textbooks for private schools, which were given to students at the beginning of the new academic session.
Apr 27, 2019
SOCIETY
Woman dies after husband, mother-in-law burn her
Woman dies after husband, mother-in-law burn her
SIRAHA, April 27: Twenty-year-old Kanchan Mandal (Khatbe) of Kalyanpur municipality-8 Aurang breathed her last while undergoing treatment for burns at Sushma Koirala Memorial Hospital, Sankhu on Friday evening. Before she died she said that she had been burnt alive by her husband and mother-in-law.
Apr 27, 2019
POLITICS, SOCIETY
Govt yet to start new talks with Bhutan on refugee repatriation
Govt yet to start new talks with Bhutan on refugee repatriat...
KATHMANDU, April 27: Although it decided in November last year to hold fresh negotiation with Bhutan to resolve the problem of Bhutanese refugees once and for all amid donors beginning to withdraw their support for the remaining refugees, the government has failed to make any concrete progress in th...
Apr 27, 2019
SOCIETY
Crusher plants operating on encroached Bandganga river land
Crusher plants operating on encroached Bandganga river land
KAPILVASTU, April 27: Crusher plant operators along the Bandganga riverbank in Kapilvastu district have been reportedly influencing the court to delay the decision on cases related to the encroachment of the land previously occupied by the river.
Apr 27, 2019
SOCIETY
Door-to-door campaign in Khotang students' admission
Door-to-door campaign in Khotang students' admission
KHOTANG, April 27: More than a decade has elapsed since the government adopted the policy of 'education for all' but not all students in the country go to schools.
Apr 27, 2019
OPINION
My homecoming
My homecoming
Many had warned me that my visit to Nepal would only disappoint me, that the romanticized notion of excitement and inner peace which I had imagined about the visit would burst as a bubble. Firstly because it was too short to experience real beauty of Nepal, secondly because I was going after a long...
Apr 27, 2019
OPINION
Video games are good
Video games are good
Just reading the title parents may be thinking: ‘You must be crazy. How can video games be good?’ It’s hard to believe, but it’s true. Actually, several studies support my statement. I know after so many years of cautioning your children not to spend time playing ‘good for nothing’ video games it...
Apr 27, 2019
OPINION
Writings on the trucks
Writings on the trucks
Writing comes so naturally to them. I wish I could write like them. Have no clear idea of what I am talking about? Well, I am talking about the hands that write those beautiful, catchy, funny, witty, immortal and lyrical (at this point, I have run out of adjectives to describe them adequately) line...
Apr 27, 2019
WORLD
Shooting breaks out in eastern Sri Lankan town during police raid
Shooting breaks out in eastern Sri Lankan town during police...
COLOMBO, April 26: Shooting erupted between security forces and a group of men in eastern Sri Lanka during a search and cordon operation related to the Easter Sunday attacks, a military spokesman said.
Apr 26, 2019