- Monday, 30 March 2026
The Rising Nepal
Nation Needs To Prevent Brain Drain
Nepal's burgeoning youth population is poised to deliver a significant boost to the national economy in the years to come. Dubbed the "population dividend", this phenomenon occurs when any nation’s working-age population grows faster than the number of dependents, leading to increased productivity, higher incomes, and greater potential for economic growth.
Policy To Ease Liquidity
In a major step to tame ongoing recession, Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has lowered the interest rate by one percentage point, hoping that it will boost credit in the banking sector and economic activities in general. Reviewing the monetary policy in its third quarter of current fiscal year 2022/23, the central bank Friday cut the bank rate from 8.5 per cent to 7.
New Hope For Brain Cancer Patients
Brain cancer patients are left with few options when tumour cells spread, as most potent chemotherapies are unable to cross the blood-brain barrier. But a study published last week in the Lancet offers some hope: an ultrasound device implanted in 17 patients’ skulls successfully increased the concentration of drugs in their brains.
As health emergency ends, pandemic-era programmes have already been fading away
The formal end of the national Public Health Emergency on Thursday is largely a symbolic and psychological step, representing the country's formal emergence from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Body of missing man found on Dhaulagiri
The body of a person missing for the past seven months has been found at the base camp of Mount Dhaulagiri in Myagdi. Indra Singh Sherchan, a tourism businessman of th
Sorry state of roads makes life miserable in Baitadi
The Ganjari-Thalakanda road, which is the lifeline of Chawgadha area, one covering the largest area among the 10 local levels of Baitadi, has been lying overlooked for three decades. The construction works of 45km road section of Ganjari-Thalakanda-Dhungadh road, which started on December 14, 1995 has been ignored for generations.
Bajura’s Malika Secondary School draws crowd of students
Teachers of many community schools still roam the nearby settlements at the beginning of the new academic session. They visit the villages requesting the locals to enrol their children in the respective community school.
Grassroots Citizens Voice Against Status Quo
Nepalis are excited by the thrill, suspense and speculation of national politics, developing an awareness of themselves, their place in history and calling for universal equality that cannot be relativised by their leaders.
How Fast Is The Universe Really Expanding?
How did we get here? Where are we going? And how long will it take? These questions are as old as humanity itself, and, if they’ve already been asked by other species elsewhere in the Universe, potentially very much older than that.
NCC urges FM Mahat to make production-oriented budget
Nepal Chamber of Commerce (NCC) has urged Finance Minister Dr. Prakash Sharan Mahat to make the upcoming budget of Fiscal Year 2023/24 production-oriented, not distributary in order to bring the economy out of the current crisis and give impetus to the growth.
Greek PM seeks ‘innovative’ solution to decades-old Parthenon Sculpture dispute with British Museum
Greece’s prime minister says his government is exploring a “win-win” solution to one of the world’s most intractable cultural heritage disputes: The fate of the Parthenon Sculptures in the British Museum. But he rules out any deal that would include the word “loan.”
Monetary policy made cautiously flexible
Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) has cautiously made the monetary policy somewhat flexible in order to support internal economic activities while maintaining macroeconomic stability.
Ponds built in Myagdi forests for wild animals
More than a dozen of ponds have been constructed in the community forests of Myagdi district to supply wild animals and birds with drinking water. The Division Forest Office has constructed 16 ponds in two fiscal years to ease the drinking water problem for wild animals in the forests during the dry season. It is also believed that the construction of pounds will help in controlling forest fires.
Great Trail reviving tourism in Helambu
The latter half of the 2010s and the early 2020s were not kind to Helambu’s tourism sector. The 2015 earthquake shook tourists’ confidence and the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent national and international lockdowns devastated the global travel and hospitality industry.
Islamabad court grants bail to Pak ex-PM Imran Khan
A high court in Islamabad on Friday granted former Prime Minister Imran Khan protection from arrest in a graft case and ordered him freed on bail. The ruling came as the government and legions of Khan's supporters were on edge after days of violent confrontations sparked by the arrest of the former prime minister earlier this week. The government has vowed it will find a way to take Khan back into custody, a move that would likely cause a resurgence of riots and mob attacks.
