- Sunday, 12 April 2026
The Rising Nepal
Release of Pardeshi 2 in Dashain
The teaser of the long-awaited movie Paradeshi-2 directed by Narayan Rayamajhi has been made public. The production team has also set a release date for the movie by releasing the teaser on YouTube on Friday. The film is scheduled to be released on September 30, five days before Vijaya Dashami.
Rashmika to collaborate with Tiger for Shashank Khaitan’s next film
Actor Tiger Shroff is all set to collaborate with filmmaker Shashank Khaitan for an action-packed entertainer. Reportedly, the actor has already started prepping for the film and it is expected to go on floors in September. The report also suggests that they have already shot an announcement video which will be unveiled soon. Going by the latest buzz, actress Rashmika Mandanna has come on board for the film.
Paddy plantation in full swing, 44% of field planted
Paddy plantation is going on in full swing across the country, thanks to the timely and regular rainfall. According to the statistic of the Department of Agriculture, under the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, paddy plantation in around 44 per cent of the total paddy fields has been completed by Monday (July 4, 2022).
CBFIN wants to convert promoter shares to ordinary ones in 10 years
The Confederation of Bank and Financial Institutions of Nepal (CBFIN) has suggested the Nepal Rastra Bank to make arrangements to convert the promoter shares into ordinary shares after 10 years of the concerned company came into operation. It said that it would make a good impact on the capital market, banking and overall financial sector. It suggested giving the authority to Nepal Stock Exchange Limited to make the promoter shares immediately tradable without having to take the permission from the NRB by determining the process of fit and proper test.
Training launched for women's economic empowerment
Nepal Women Chamber under the Nepal Chamber of Commerce (NCC) has launched an economic empowerment programme for women. The Nepal Women Chamber has organised 'skill development training' in various fields to increase women's participation in the economic sector by developing entrepreneurship and creating jobs. In the first phase, the training will be provided to women in six different fields, including cooking, beautician, photography, candle crafting and fabric painting. The Women Chamber has said that the training is being provided to women of various areas.
Campaign against child marriages pays
Cases of child marriages have fallen sharply in Sabaila Municipality in Dhanusha district as a result of mothers and teenagers playing an active role in preventing them. Girls' networks and mothers' groups have been established in each ward of the municipality in an effort to reduce child marriage throughout the municipality. They remind the parents and the youngsters when they learn that a child marriage is about to occur.
Bamboo transporters in Koshi risk their life
The locals have been transporting bamboo via the Saptakoshi River and its tributaries for a long time every year without feeling any risk. The bamboo traders travel through the mighty river standing on the bundle of bamboos. The locals nearby the Saptakoshi River have been making a living by carrying bamboos through the river at their own risk. The bamboos carried in this way are called ‘Chefako Bas’. These bamboos are transported to the Terai through the Saptakoshi and its tributaries like the Sunkoshi, Arun and Tamor.
Built for 300 inmates, Nepalgunj jail crammed with 800 inmates
Nepalgunj Prison has been housing more inmates than its capacity for years and the problem of overcrowd is getting only worse. Currently, the prison has been accommodating almost three times more inmates than its capacity. The prison with a capacity to accommodate only 300 inmates, is now crammed with 800 inmates and two minors.
The Native Roots Of Freedom
Humans are born within the walls of their families, societies and the nation-states. Their knowledge and experience have enabled them to see beyond these walls and allowed them to lift them up and beyond the walls, even to stellar scale. Agricultural revolution has liberated them from nomadic life and fostered the civilisation of nation-states. Industrial revolution has pushed them from villages and farms to factories in the cities where the alchemy of modernity and civic life flourished. Now, technological, informational and knowledge revolution is shifting them from inherited communities to self-chosen societies and linking them to global society of peoples, communities, nation-states, regions and the world.
Tackling Inflation From Pro-poor Angle
Inflation, driven primarily by large and persistent increases in energy and food prices, is a great concern around the world. Policy-makers remain divided on how best to control it—though tight monetary policy seems to be gaining ground, despite its potentially harmful impact on fragile economic recovery. Perhaps the most pressing challenge in the short term is to tackle the impact of the rising cost of living on households. At the European Union level, agreement within the European Council meeting in late June to go on to the front foot to curb rising energy prices—and hence their social impact—seems however to have proved hard to reach. Member states h
Electric buses hit the Valley roads
Three new electric buses of the Sajha Yatayat have begun their trial services in the Kathmandu Valley since Thursday. Initailly, three buses will be in operation in the valley’s roads as a trial service. The other remaining 37 buses will arrive in Kathmandu by mid-August, according to a statement issued by Sajha Yatayat Sahakari Sanstha Limited. Bishwabandhu Thapa, 95, founder of Sajha Yatayat, inaugurated the soft launch of the trial service on Thursday.
Attracting Youths To Farming
Migration, rural exodus, and brain drain have plagued the rural areas of middle and low-income countries. In Nepal, many rural families give up agriculture and migrate, searching for low-paid wage work. Recent statistics show that more than 6.5 million labour permit has been granted and if we add those number to migrating to India, at least 10 million people are out of the country as labour migrants.
Preservation Of Natural Resources
As extreme weather becomes a norm, the world is left to grapple with the consequences of humankind’s recklessness. One of the major causes of extreme weather is climate change. It has resulted in natural disasters, which have been occurring frequently on a devastating scale throughout the world. Natural resources such as land, water and forests are consequently and adversely depleted due to heedless human activities. Despite depending upon the natural resources for livelihood and sustenance, organisations, institutions, governments and even individuals tend to be lax when it comes to the preservation of such resources.
Sex Among Older People
The description of sex or sexual activities in the Kamasutra, a sex manual written by Vatsyayana, and ancient Indian philosopher, displays the significance, praise, and power of sex, and its quality relationship with human life. However, the more significant and praiseworthy sex appears to be the discussion of older people's sexual lives or the sexual lives of people with disabilities. As people with disabilities are deemed as people with no sexual desire, the sexual desire of older people can be considered the butt of a joke. It is because older people are connected to the idea of people with a disability as they are also deemed to be physically challenging, incapable or feeble.
Tilak Prasad: A Democratic Stalwart
What's politics for? Is it for power, post and pelf, or social service and people's happiness? How is Nepal's politics faring and who has contributed to the cause of democracy? Does the centre hold parties or need its bases and pillars to build the system? These are some intriguing questions when one goes through the book under review - 'Yatra Nirantar'. Tilak Prasad Sapkota pens the book. A staunch follower of the late BP Koirala, Sapkota fought for the restoration of democracy, suffered imprisonment, faced lethal attacks, and braved atrocities of security persons - but, was gradually marginalised owing to party politics. Despite this, Sapkota remained unfazed; he did not budge from his belief in democracy.
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