Lawmakers in today's meeting of the Women, Children and Social Affairs Committee under the House of Representatives have laid emphasis on parenting education.
There is an enrollment of less than twenty-five students in eight schools located at Namkha Rural Municipality of Northern Humla. According to the Education, youth, and Sorts Branch of the Namkha Rural Municipality, there is an enrollment of less than twenty students in eight schools of the rural municipality.
“Education is the main pillar for development, the main infrastructure for other infrastructure. Therefore, this sector needs special attention and adequate investment,”
Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed that students who are currently in Bangladesh do not need to return back to Nepal.
Bangladesh appeared calm on Monday amid a curfew, but widespread disruption of telecoms persisted a day after the Supreme Court scrapped some controversial job quotas, as protesters set the government a 48-hour deadline to meet new demands. Clashes between student protesters and security forces killed at least 147 people across the South Asian nation after the high court last month reinstated job reservations removed by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's government in 2018.
Bangladesh's top court has scrapped most of the quotas on government jobs that had sparked violent clashes across the country that have killed more than 100 people. A third of public sector jobs had been reserved for the relatives of veterans from the country’s war for independence from Pakistan in 1971.
Bangladesh soldiers patrolled Dhaka's deserted streets on Saturday amid a curfew to quell deadly student-led protests against government job quotas that have killed more than 100 people this week. A suspension on internet and text message services has remained in place since Thursday, cutting off Bangladesh from the world as police cracked down on protests that have continued despite a ban on public gatherings.
On the occasion, she directed the Ambassador not to cause any inconvenience for the Nepalis and to make necessary coordination for creating environment to stay in their places safely, according to Minister Rana's Secretariat.
World Food Program USA and Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF), the charitable arm of Lions International, have announced a USD $4 million partnership in support of the United Nations World Food Programme’s (WFP) Homegrown School Feeding (HGSF) Programme in four countries, including Nepal.
Student protesters demanding an end to quotas for government jobs in Bangladesh called on Thursday for a complete shutdown nationwide, after deadly clashes this week killed six and injured hundreds. Angered by high youth unemployment, with nearly 32 million out of work or education among a population of 170 million, the students have pressed for the abolition of a quota of 30% reservations for the families of freedom fighters.
Newly-appointed Minister for Education, Science and Technology Bidhya Bhattarai has said that finalizing the Education Act was one of her key priorities.
The Tribhuvan University (TU) senate scheduled to be held on Monday has been postponed.