Editorial: Rape is unreconcilable

The new provision in the ordinance will discourage village leaders from settling rape cases outside the court of law The council of ministers on Sunday took the decision to issue an ordinance by making amendments...

India records nearly 38,000 new coronavirus infections

MUMBAI: India said on Tuesday it had recorded 37,975 new infections of coronavirus, with the daily increases, tallied by Reuters, remaining below the 50,000 mark for more than two weeks, having peaked in September. The...

Reopen Nepal-India border, stakeholders demand

RAJBIRAJ, NOVEMBER 23 Stakeholders today demanded that restrictions imposed along the Nepal-India border be eased to facilitate people’s movement, in Rajbiraj, Saptari. Speaking at an interaction held by District Coordination Committee Saptari in Rajbiraj, Nepal-India Youth...

Rs 170 billion excess liquidity in banking sector

KATHMANDU, NOVEMBER 23 There has been excess liquidity in the banking sector in the country for the past several months due to the decline in demand for loans. Liquidity in banks started to increase since...

Dying language

Some time ago the media lamented on the precarious fate of the Magaraa language in Province 1. With over 125 dialects and languages, it is hardly surprising that many of them will become extinct...

Respect farming: No food, no life

Focussing on the bottom-up approach in extension can somehow develop the feeling of ownership among farmers. The Nepali agriculture extension system is showing slow progress because there’s a lack of coordination between the different...

Brazil has enough infection data to analyze Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine: officials

SAO PAULO: Brazil has gathered enough infection data from a late-stage trial of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech and expects to have interim results on its efficiency in early December,...

Border closure affecting marriages

NEPALGUNJ, NOVEMBER 23 Twenty-year-old Rina Ali Shaiyad’s marriage has been stalled for months now. Scheduled to tie the knot with a man across the border in April, her plan went awry owing to the lockdown enforced...