Star-rated hotels start laying off workers

KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 22 Star-rated hotels within Kathmandu valley have started slashing their workforce as they struggle to survive due to the COVID-19 pandemic. On July 20, Hotel Association Nepal (HAN) had signed an agreement with Nepal...

People from LGBT community suffering from stress

KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 22 Members of sexual minorities — LGBT community — have said they were facing more mental stress due to the crisis created by COVID-19. They spoke of the plight in a programme ‘Challenges and...

NCP splits 31 months after merger

KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 22 Dahal-led faction removes Oli as party co-chair, replaces him with Madhav Kumar Nepal Oli’s faction removes Narayan Kaji Shrestha as party spokesperson, replaces him with Gyawali Adds 556 members to Central Committee, forms committee...

New rules for providing land to landless Dalits, squatters

KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 22 The Government of Nepal has issued the 18th amendment to the Land Rules, paving the way to provide land to landless Dalit families and squatters. As per the new provision stated in the...

Nepali embassy in UK suspends visa services following new coronavirus variant surge

KATHMANDU: Following the surge of new strain of coronavirus, Nepali Embassy in United Kingdom has stopped issuing visas for Nepal effective from December 23. Issuing a notice on Tuesday, the Embassy in London said that...

EDITORIAL: Split in NCP

The non-ideological feud in the ruling NCP has finally led to the vertical split within 31 months of its unification Thirty-one months after the unification between the then CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist-Centre) to form the...

‘PM Oli saved nation from crisis’

BHAKTAPUR, DECEMBER 22 Chairperson of Nepal Workers and Peasants Party Narayanman Bijukchhe said Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had saved the nation from a big crisis by dissolving the House of Representatives. Bijukchhe asserted that the...

Artistes and contracts: Know your rights

Every artiste is different, and their expectations from a contract are different. Mostly young artistes are just focussed on the lump sum payment and the financial benefit that they will get in the beginning....