Media urged to prioritise disaster management issues

KATHMANDU, MARCH 9 Stakeholders have stressed the need for media to extensively raise the issues of disaster management as the media sector can play an important role in reducing disaster risks. They made this statement at...

Workshop on PBL mentorship conducted

Nepal By Rastriya Samachar Samiti Published: 10:46 am Mar 10, 2022 KATHMANDU, MARCH 9 A workshop on 'Roles, Practices and Needs of Problem-based Learning Mentor' was recently organised by Sagarmatha Engineering College in Kathmandu. PBL is one of the...

Postal road construction in Kanchanpur in limbo

DHANGADI, MARCH 9 Postal road construction in Kanchanpur is anything but complete even though the contract period for the project has expired. Contract-signing for the construction of the 62-km stretch of the postal road in Kanchanpur...

Warm clothes distributed to impoverished children

BAJURA, MARCH 9 Warm clothes have been distributed to cold-affected students of Saraswati Basic Level School in Badimalika Municipality, Bajura, today. Ward Chair Dharma Raj Padhya said that hats and jackets were distributed to 165 children...

Call for structural change to end media bias

KATHMANDU, MARCH 9 Media experts and journalists of South Asia have called for systematic structural change in media outlets of the region to break the bias against women and accelerate women's equal participation in leadership...

Need for freedom of expression stressed

KATHMANDU, MARCH 9 Federation of Nepali journalists issued a press release condemning some social activists' call for public boycott of rights activist Bandana Rana and senior journalist Babita Basnet for their recent comments and views. Recently,...

Nepali transgender rights activist Bhumika Shrestha wins Int'l Women of Courage Award

KATHMANDU, MARCH 9 The US Embassy in Nepal has announced that transgender rights activist Bhumika Shrestha will be awarded the US Department of States' prestigious International Women of Courage Award, 2022 for her dedication to...

Decriminalise abortion, say women rights activists

Nepal By Himalayan News Service Published: 09:35 am Mar 10, 2022 Decriminalise abortion, say women rights activists KATHMANDU, MARCH 9 Women's rights activists have underlined the need to decriminalise abortion. Addressing an interaction organised by Forum for Women, Law and...