Stricter Measures To Fight The Virus

Since Nepal has been facing an ever increasing threat of the coronavirus, the federal government has reviewed its earlier decisions and re-imposed some restrictions to slow down the spread of the fatal killer virus disease.

Obey Public Order

Like many other nations, Nepal is also passing through a difficult time as the COVID-19 has turned every sphere of life from health, economy and education to transport, sports and entertainment business upside down. The disruption of the public mobility has altered our perception about normalcy. This is perhaps the first time in the 21st century that people came to know how medical emergency leads to the collapse of economy, thanks to the growing interdependence and deepening globalisation that ushered...

Timely Call For Unity

Overwhelming majority of Nepali people who showered their electorate mandate to the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) with high hopes of stability and prosperity are now worried and angry. Their concerns and sense of uncertainty emanates from the ongoing feud of the top leaders of the party. Equally worrying is the fact that the intra-party debate is not centred on refinement of ideology or the correction of the government’s path. Transfer of power and posts seems to be the central demand of the...

Job Market Hitches

With the number of COVID-19 cases increasing in Nepal on a daily basis, the country's economic sector is passing through uncertainty. This signals that the job market in the country may face a worse situation in the post-lockdown period, too. However, as part of its efforts to revive the national economy and save the vulnerable job market, the government has stepped up several measures, including restructuring loans and offering discounts on interest for businesses. But the industrialists

Punching Above Weight

The COVID-19 pandemic has hit the global health and economic system simultaneously. It has exposed the poor health infrastructure at global, national and local levels. The novel coronavirus first broke out in Wuhan of China and then swiftly travelled to the Global North with Italy, Spain, the UK and the USA becoming the hotspots of the virus flare-up. These nations have robust health systems compared to those countries in the Global South but the coronavirus brought their health care

Economy In A Slump

The outbreak of coronavirus pandemic and ensuing lockdown has undoubtedly hit hard the nation's business, industry, trade and service sectors. While people engaged in these sectors have suffered huge losses, human resources employed there have lost their jobs. The shutting down of business has left a negative impact on the nation's economic growth. Earlier, the National Planning Commission had stated that the economy in the country would grow by only 2.27 per cent this ye

Saving Life & Economy

Since Nepal has seen a notable spike in the number of coronavirus infections following the lifting of the lockdown some three weeks ago, the government needs to ramp up testing and strictly enforce preventive measures such as maintaining social distancing and weari

Rising Virus Threat

The COVID-19 disease has not only become a pandemic of the 21st century but also the biggest health quandary of our times. As governments across the world are struggling to control the first wave of virus infections, some other countries that successfully stamped it are now confronting its second wave, forcing them to adopt onerous measures like lockdown in selective areas of business and ban on gathering of people in public pla

Positive Talks In NCP

The talks between two chairmen of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP), KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, that had stalled since July 28, have resumed with a positive note. The party chief duo has shown new enthusiasm to give continuity to dialogue in order to give outlet to the ongoing intra-party dispute. Leaders, party workers and people in general are worried over the protracted dispute in the party that

Illegal Structures Around Swayambhu

The tendency of flouting the norms of constructing structures even in and around the prominent monument sites of the Kathmandu Valley has continued despite the frequent warnings issued by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cult