- Thursday, 28 May 2026
The Rising Nepal
No End To Nuclear Threat
Against the background of escalating ongoing Russia-Ukraine war concerns have been expressed about prospects of conflict being turned into nuclear, though inadvertently. Such fears are not without any logic considering the fact that one of the parties to conflict is nuclear-armed. Russia is one of the original nuclear weapon capable states whose nuclear edge over its current adversary induces its leadership to brandish nuclear threat with the intention of silencing its critics especially in the West.
Authorise Teachers To Assess Students
Teachers are supposed to better evaluate students for they are in constant touch with them in the classrooms and know about their academic performance well. So the students’ academic evaluation made by anyone else except the teachers cannot guarantee justice to them. Our assessment system seems to be flawed and has made many students’ future uncertain. They are taught by a group of teachers; but their exam takes place somewhere far outside their familiar premises; and their copies are checked by even unknown persons who know nothing about them.
Build Political Culture
It is excruciating that even a female politician is reported to have been involved in violence against women. Bimala Oli, who is a state minister of the Lumbini Province, has not only ruined her personal image but also created a sense of revulsion among the general public towards politics as an occupation by getting involved in an untoward activity.
Dang’s Kulpani becoming a tourist destination
By Liladhar Wali Ghorahi, June 16:While scorching heat has kept many people in their homes, the Kulpani Green Park in Deukhuri, Dang, is seen crowded with people. The place, which falls under the Kulpani community forest area in the Deukhuri Valley, is gradually becoming a tourist center.People throng the park to observe the sculptures of horses, rhinos, tigers, and peacocks, to climb the wooden watch-tower to observe the surroundings and to take photographs, as well as to enjoy boat ride during the summer. As it is a religious and wetland area in the forest area, hundreds of domestic tourist flock to Kulpani every day to escape the punishing heat and enjoy the greenery, said Nawaraj Sharma, Chairman of Kulpani Community Forest Users Group.In an effort to develop the place as a tourist destination, different traditional items that were on the verge of disappearance are also kept there for observation, said Sharma.However, the management committee stated that it could not manage the park due to a lack of funds. According to locals, the religious and tourist area in Gadhawa Rural Municipality-1 Badahara of Deukhuri, which was once deserted even after the development of some infrastructure by the Division Forest Office along with the locals for the promotion of tourism, is now catching the attention of many people. According to Sharma, the area came under the spotlight of tourists after the construction of a pond and a green park.At present, the Province Infrastructure Authority Office is constructing Detailed Project Report (DPR) for the development of the area, spread across 12 hectares. Sharma said that the DPR is being constructed along with a kindergarten, picnic spot, and pond.Engineer Shankar Subedi of the Office said that the DPR was being constructed in Kulpani to protect the kindergarten, picnic sports, and religious and wetland areas. He said that the planning work for the development of tourism in an area of 20 hectares by expanding it has reached the final stage.
15 more days needed to print textbooks: JEMC
The Janak Education Materials Centre (JEMC) has stated that it will takes 15 days more to print all required textbooks for the new academic session. According to the JEMC, about 1,500,000 textbooks are required to be printed as per the demand for the new session. Now, it has been printing 100,000 textbooks daily, Chitra Acharya, its spokesperson, said.
WiFi-Nepal offers 30 MBPS internet at Rs. 333
New internet service provider company WiFi-Nepal has launched its service since Wednesday with the announcement of the cheapest internet package in the market. The company said that it has brought the cheapest internet package in the country with the objective of providing convenient internet access to all Nepalis. It has now started providing 30 and 50 Mbps internet packages.
Chamber Expo 2022 from today
Nepal Chamber Expo 2022 is kicking off from Thursday at Bhrikutimandap in Kathmandu. Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is scheduled to inaugurate the fifth edition of the trade fair to be organised by Nepal Chamber of Commerce (NCC).
No agreement will be signed against national interest: PM
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that he will not ink any agreement that is against the interest of the country. In a meeting held among the top leaders of the ruling coalition on Wednesday, he assured that there would be no agreement without forging a national consensus.
Balanced Foreign Policy
Located between the two big neighbours, Nepal has been following independent and non-aligned foreign policy, taking sensitive geostrategic location into account. It is based on the Charter of the United Nations, principles of Panchasheel, international laws and the norms of world peace. Safeguarding national sovereignty, territorial integrity, independence and the country’s c
South Asia At Sixes And Sevens
South Asia is getting further disturbed, thereby raising levels of public concerns in the region and beyond. And it is not just because of longstanding animosity between India and Pakistan. Events in Afghanistan that led to withdrawal of US forces have accentuated these trends, particularly after the Taliban takeover. Lately, it is Sri Lanka which has been radiating distress signals in the vicinity.
On Presidential Democracy
Prof. Surya Prasad Subedi reiterated his preference to the presidential democracy over the parliamentary one which is currently adopted and instituted by the Constitution of Nepal, 2015. At a lecture given at the meeting hall of the Policy Research Institute (PRI) where the Institute's fellow colleagues and policy researchers had attended and listened with rapt attention. Professor Subedi, the famed London-based scholar of international law, referred to the letter
Stop Abusing Elders
On June 15, the World Elder Abuse Awareness Day was marked amidst a variety of functions globally. Older trees give the densest shade. Similarly, older people are like trees in our life, full of affection and having immense experience about living.
Dancing goalkeeper sees Australia to WCup finals
Australia on Tuesday celebrated the antics of dancing goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne whose penalty shootout save against Peru saw them to a fifth straight World Cup finals. The 33-year-old clowned his way along the goal line as Peru's players prepared to take their penalty kicks and his block of Alex Valera's shot gave Australia a 5-4 win after the two sides had been deadlocked without a goal for 120 minutes.
‘Art is a revolution to understand ourselves’
Let’s face it. Kathmandu is not a very beautiful city. Save for its heritage sites and core areas, our nation’s capital does not have much to present to the outside world. It is an urban space dominated by boring concrete that lacks life and lustre. This is what Rajan Shakya, founder of the Museum of Nepali Art (MoNA) at Kathmandu Guest House, Thamel, thinks. Kathmandu has the potential to look good, he told The Rising Nepal, to become an eye-catching gem, his hands rose and face contorted with frustration-tinged enthusiasm. “But we have to give space to our artists,” he stressed.
Magars observe Bhume Dance
The Magar settlements in East Rukum are currently busy observing their biggest festival of Bhume Dance or Bal Pooja. Chandra Rasaili of Bhume Rural Municipality informed that Bhume Dance is being performed in Sisne Rural Municipality, Putha Uttarganga Rural Municipality and Bhume Rural Municipality in the district. On the 15th of Jeth every year, Bal Pooja is performed by plucking Buki flowers from the local lake.
