Chief Minister of Gandaki Province Khaga Raj Adhikari has asked the secretaries of the province government to expedite the processes to spend the capital expenditure while remaining economical on current expenses.
As a global public health problem, cancer has become one of the leading causes of women’s death. Globally, nearly 18.1 million new cancer cases and 9.6 million cancer-related deaths occurred in 2018, with 70 per cent of such deaths occurring in developing countries. In Nepal, 2,244 new cases of cervical cancer are diagnosed annually, and 1,493 women die of this disease.
Ever since humans began the revolution of agriculture, with it came the feeling of “mine” and “yours” People began to own land, food, and resources. And obviously, there was a degree of imbalance between the ownership.
Five years ago, when you stepped on this earth, we felt as if one more sun began to shine in our life illuminating our world. While drenched with tears of contentment about your arrival, your parents were equally anxious as to what if a hovering dark cloud covers the sun anytime soon before it begins to deliver.
“The key concept to understand is that a good leader can interact with followers so that they want to listen to and want to be motivated, not that leaders motivate (control) them.” In simple term, leadership nothing but a quality to influence other people to follow. Therefore, anyone who can influence people to follow them has leadership qualities.
International Cricket Council (ICC) awarded Nepal wicketkeeper Aasif Sheikh with the ICC Spirit of Cricket Award 2022 on Thursday.
Folk rock band Nepathya has started its musical tour in Australia from Darwin.
The theme poster of ‘Camino’, was made public through social media on Wednesday. Dipak Oli is directing the movie being produced by Access Nepal Films. Purna Lama is its creative director and Sunil Bista Gauli is the executive producer.
The ad hoc committee of the central working committee of Nepal Karate Federation has been formed under the chair of Yuabraj Lama.
While the newly-formed federal and provincial governments were expressing their commitments to establishing good governance in the country and enhancing the efficiency of the service delivery system, an industrious youth, who attempted to self-immolate in front of the Federal Parliament Building on Tuesday, showed his utter frustrations about the governance mechanisms. Prem Prasa
What the country needs now is development. It could be in any sector, but it must ensure that the nation’s economy has to be stronger and the people must have the right to live in a secure environment. How is it that other nations with much lesser natural resources have gone on to become economic tigers? Nepal has natural resources that are envied even by other much richer countries. We must utilise our strength and this depends a lot on the individuals who are at the policy making level. Their vision and planning could change the country of this face.
On February 1st Britain will experience something close to a 21st-century general strike. Hundreds of thousands of teachers, university lecturers and civil servants will stop work, together with the railway workers whose industrial action has already paralysed the network for weeks. Five days later, nurses will begin a two-day shutdown, while the strike calendar for ambulance workers stretches well into March. This is not a French-style, politicised mass movement. Union leaders are forbidden by law from co-ordinating action, while the Conservative government’s new anti-strike law will force public-service workers to guarantee minimum se
Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern has stepped down, giving a surprise to everyone. While her resignation has been perceived differently by different groups of people, most media has highlighted her words "no longer has enough in the tank" to lead, indicating work burnout. Burnout has become a new norm today. Everyone, be it a student or a working professional has faced exhaustion of some kind. Because it is so common, it would not be wrong to say that for many, it comes naturally as a part of their job description.
After the government allowed to resume operation of crusher industry, the industry workers are happy. About a thousand workers who were directly or indirectly dependent on the industry suffered unemployment after the crusher industry shut down. After a letter was sent by Ministry of Home Affairs to all district administration offices on January 4 instructing them to close unregistered and non-standard crushers, the industry of Tanahun closed, making it difficult for the family of workers to barely suffice two meals per day. Ishara Thapa, a resident of Rishing Rural Municipality-1, Jhaputar, Tanahun said that the closing of crusher industry had her worried about how to earn her daily bread and with the resumption, life has become easier. Similarly, Usha Thapa who has been working in this area for the past 10 years, said that she was happy after the opening of the industry. Thapa said, "The worry about my children’s educational expenses along with household one has dissipated for now.”
Jumla Airport has come into operation from Thursday after security personnel cleared the snow that had been blocking its runway. After nearly half a day of work, officers of the Nepali Army, Armed Police Force and Nepal Police were able to clear the runway and allow planes to land on Thursday. Rajiv Shrestha, acting chief of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal’s office in Jumla, informed that two flights, one each of Summit Air and Tara Air, landed at the airport Thursday afternoon. “This provided some relief to passengers who had been waiting for the airport to open for three days,” he said. Three days of incessant snowfall had made the airport unsafe for flights, leaving passengers flying between Nepalgunj and Jumla stranded.