- Sunday, 21 September 2025
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26,000 children in Karnali Province remain to have their birth registration
As many as 26,000 children have not been registered during their birth in Karnali Province. According to the National Census, 2021, there were 204,638 children below the age of five in the Province. As per the census, 25,990 children were yet to have registered births.
President, Prime Minister meet
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' today paid a courtesy call on President Ramchandra Paudel.
Rise above party thought to build the nation, says MP Tamang
Nepali Congress leader and member of the House of Representatives Purna Bahadur Tamang has said that all political leaders should rise above their respective party notion to start building the nation.
PM Prachanda leaving for New York today
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' is leaving for New York, USA this evening leading the Nepali delegation to the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) being held at the UN Headquarters.
Youth are also the stakeholders of the present: Prime Minister Prachanda
Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has said that the government is working for meaningful participation of youth in every sector of the society.
Hawaldar busy crafting Vishwakarma’s statues
Gopinath Hawaldar, originally hailing from Kolkata, the capital city of West Bengal, India, is currently immersed in the creation of a statue dedicated to Lord Vishwakarma in Kupondole, Lalitpur. Lord Vishwakarma is revered as the world’s inaugural architect and is revered as the god of creation. Nepalis are marking Vishwakarma Jayanti on coming Monday.
Distortion in Teej in name of modernity
The celebration of Haritalika Teej festival, deeply cherished by Hindu women as a symbolic exchange of yearly sorrows and joys, has undergone a noticeable change in recent years. Once a simple and heartwarming celebration, the festival has now embraced contemporary adaptations, potentially diluting its traditional essence. It has been commercialised over the years. Hotels and restaurants have begun hosting elaborate Teej celebrations, integrating modern music and dance. Such evolutions, according to Tara Rokaya, president of Tara Foundation Banke, are causing the festival's core spirit to fade.
Actor Huma turns author with superhero saga
After having spent a successful decade in the film industry, actor Huma Qureshi has assumed the role of a writer with her debut novel, “Zeba: An Accidental Superhero”, publisher HarperCollins India announced on Friday. The superhero saga will see Zeba, “a rebellious brat”, live up to the superpowers she has accidentally achieved and reaffirms the belief that “superheroes come wearing different capes. The book is a tale of “heroism, transformation, and the triumph of the human spirit in the face of adversity”.
121 new TB patients found in Hariwan
A total of 121 new tuberculosis patients have been found in Hariwan municipality of Sarlahi. Even though Hariwan municipality has announced to make it a tuberculosis free municipality from the year 2078, 121 new tuberculosis patients were found in the last financial year 2079/80, said Rambabu Chaudhary, coordinator of the municipality health branch. According to him, 110 tuberculosis patients were found in the year 2078/79. TB program coordinator of Bagmati Sewa Samaj Nepal, Aajmad Ali Mikrani, said support and cooperation of public representatives, community and private health organizations, social workers, political party leaders and media workers was needed to eradicate tuberculosis.
Four people found dead in Kathmandu
Three of the four people who were found murdered last night in Gairigaon, Tinkune, Kathmandu belonged to the same family. Those killed inside the Dibya Sawmill are Kumar Bhujel, 56, of Dolakha and currently working as a gatekeeper in the sawmill, his wife Ambika Bhujel, 52, Kumar's mother, Shubhadra Bhujel,76, and Nabin Rai, age 20, originally from Belbari in Morang, according to Spokesperson of Kathmandu Valley Police Office, Senior Superintendent of Police Dineshraj Mainali. The bodies were found with injuries from sharp weapon on different parts of their bodies including the head. The bodies have been sent to the TU teaching hospital in Maharajganj for post-mortem while further investigation into the incident continues, said SSP Mainali.
Ethical Business Vital For Justice And Peace
Business ethics presumes a set of moral and constitutional principles that governs the behaviour of economic transactions. It spurs businesspersons’ compliance of law by adhering to acceptable behaviours beyond the canons of discipline and penalty. Ethical principles generally include sincerity, fairness, honesty, kindness, deference, accountability to the public, loyalty to consumers and abidance of the laws and rules of the land where business is conducted. Nepali business sectors have to flash a new social image rooted in the native virtues of shuva lava (just business practices), not just stockpile profits. They can nurture what Buddha says is the right liveliho
Air Quality Critical For Social Justice
Europe has gone through yet another impossibly hot summer. Soaring temperatures and the consequent droughts and wildfires have assaulted the continent. There will be some respite in the change of seasons, yet this could end up having been the coldest summer of the rest of our lives. In addition to the climate crisis, however, another silent emergency has been brewing for years—poor air quality. This will only worsen with ever-hotter summers, while exacerbating them in turn. Premature-death toll Every year, poor air quality leads to around 230,000 premature deaths in the European Union. The estimated annual health-related economic costs stemming from air pollution are up to €940 billion across the EU. In urban areas, 96 per cent of inhabitants are expose
Budget for housing programmes frozen in Jumla
The budget allocated to the People’s Housing Programme and Poor People’s Housing in Jumla district’s provincial constituency (B) has frozen as the required meeting could not be called. As per the Infrastructure Development Office, Jumla, about Rs. 16 million was allocated for the People’s Housing Programme and Poor People’s Housing in the provincial constituencies (A) and (B) of Jumla. Tek Raj Pachhai, the Provincial Assembly member elected from constituency (B), was the coordinator of this programme in the fiscal year 2022-23. As per Hari Oli, Chief of the Infrastructure Development Office, Jumla, of the budget allocated, the work could not make any progress in Provincial Assembly constituency (B), but the work progressed in Province Assembly constituency (A) from where Devendra Bahadur Shahi was elected to the Provincial Assembly. There was a plan to spend a budget of Rs. 8 million each in the constituencies (A) and (B). Likewise, Rs.1 million was allocated for the Agriculture Development Programme and Rs. 1 million for the Veterinary Hospital and Livestock Service Centre. But the budget for these progarmmes also froze for failing to hold meeting.
Compensation dispute delays petroleum exploration work in Dailekh
The petroleum exploration work in Dailekh has not progressed due to disputes over compensation distribution. The government has acquired 45 hectares of land in Bhairabi Rural Municipality-1, in Jaljale of Dailekh, for exploration of petroleum products. The land belongs to 16 households. But the land owners have not accepted the compensation, leading to a delay in the excavation work. Locals complained that the compensation amount is less than what they deserve. Five ropanies of land with the house of Dhirj Thapa of Bhairabi Rural Municipality-1 have been acquired. But Thapa said that the compensation to be provided by the government is very little.
Blocked road keeps Bajura apples out of market
Apples produced in several local levels in the north-eastern region of Bajura district, which are meant to be transported to markets across the country, remain stored in farms. The reason? The Martadi-Kolti road remains blocked. Dhan Bahadur Rawal, an apple farmer of Swamikartik Rural Municipality-1, said a lot of apples have ripened in his field, but that the closure of Martadi-Kolti road has meant that there is a problem taking them to the city for sale. “Every year at this time, when apples start ripening in our village, roads get blocked,” he complained. Apples in the Himali, Swamikartik, and Jagganath Rural Municipalities, as well as Budhinanda Municipality
