- Thursday, 3 July 2025
Building a Positive School Culture: A Roadmap to Holistic Success
Core values are the guiding principles that inform every decision, interaction, and expectation within a school community. Values such as respect, responsibility, empathy, integrity, and collaboration create a shared identity and moral compass for students, educators, and staff alike.
It's Time to Break the Silence
There are an estimated 258 million widows around the world, and nearly one in ten live in extreme poverty (The Loomba Foundation, 2024). According to Nepal’s 2021 Population Census, widows constitute 6.6% of the female population, more than one in every 15 women. The majority of women (71%) marry between the ages of 15-24, with 23% marrying even earlier, often before the age of 15. This early marriage sets the stage for vulnerability; these girls are pulled out of education and denied economic opportunities. When widowed young, they lack the skills and networks to assert their rights.
Power of Global Connection
The talented people I met during my IVLP experience went back to their communities with more than just new information - they went back believing that change is possible and having concrete ideas about how to make it happen. This is the kind of quiet diplomacy that actually builds lasting peace and prosperity.
Actions to protect the dollar would hurt it: the Triffin Dilemma
From a micro perspective, comparative advantage is the core logic that determines the global division of labor, not the exchange rate. The rise and fall of the manufacturing industry fundamentally depends on the relative efficiency of capital, labor, technology and institutional environment. Take Germany as an example.
Restoring Nepal-Russia relations to level of Soviet era is current task: Khasikov
As a Buddhist, I have fulfilled my dream, and with a big joy I am here, the birthplace of Lord Buddha. In general, Nepal is a great spiritual energy. I am confident, this is symbolic that I am here as the leader of the Republic of Kalmykia which will host the third International Buddhist Forum in September this year, I have been infused with energy by visiting here.
America’s Manufacturing Revival Risks Dethroning the Dollar
This issue echoes the Triffin Dilemma, a theory from the 1960s articulated by economist Robert Triffin. For a country’s currency to function as the world’s primary reserve, that nation must provide liquidity—typically through persistent trade deficits. But those same deficits, if excessive, can undermine faith in the currency.
TRC and CIEDP formed with appointment of Chair and Members
The Government has formed the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the Commission of Investigation on Enforced Disappeared Persons.
Out of Tricks: U.S. Tariff Policy Trapped in Strategic Exhaustion
According to SmartScout, a U.S.-based e-commerce analytics firm, 930 items on Amazon saw price hikes since April 9—the day a 109% tariff on Chinese imports took effect, later raised to 245%. The average increase was 29%, spanning categories such as clothing, jewelry, household items, electronics, and toys.
Grip Of Consumerism
If you go to a Starbucks to buy a beverage, you will be faced with numerous, mind-boggling choices. Oat or almond milk? Latte or cappuccino? Or is it frappuccino? Added sugar or sugar-
Pahalgam Attack and Alarms of Escalation
The stakes are high. The world has seen how miscalculation or provocation in South Asia can spiral. Another Pulwama or Balakot-style crisis would only deepen instability. What the region desperately needs is de-escalation, dialogue, and accountability.
HoR endorses Upper House's amendment on banking crime bill
The House of Representatives approved the amendment made to the banking crime (second amendment) bill, 2080 by the National Assembly on Sunday.
Steel Arteries: Southeast Asia’s Race to Reinvent Urban Transport
China, with the world’s largest metro network and biggest rail transport industry that takes up over 30% of the world’s total, has seen its urban transit build-out expanded fourfold over the past decade, now spanning over 5,000 kilometers. Its metro systems recorded historical 30 billion trips in 2024, while more than 50 fully automated lines are already in operation.
Circular Economy for the Bottom of Pyramid
Management of the waste or end-of-product life is one of the paramount principles in the circular economy which helps create employment opportunities for low-income workers in waste collection, recycling, and upcycling industries; quite often we also have seen people collecting trash on the streets for recycling purposes.
