OPINION
From Constitution to Kitchen: Nepal’s Journey to Food Rights
From Constitution to Kitchen: Nepal’s Journey to Food Rights
The 2015 Constitution provides a comprehensive framework, guaranteeing the rights to food, protection from hunger, and food sovereignty under Article 36. Additionally, the Constitution ensures rights to live with human dignity, housing, employment, equality, social justice, social security, and acce...
Jan 28, 2024
SOCIETY
Snowfall in Sankhuwasabha cripples lives
Snowfall in Sankhuwasabha cripples lives
KIMATHANKA (Sankhuwasabha), Jan 28: Snowfall in the highland of Sankhuwasabha district has adversely affected normal life of people.
Jan 28, 2024
SOCIETY
Sudden rise in water level following malfunctioning of hydropower machine washes away body...
Sudden rise in water level following malfunctioning of hydro...
SALLERI (Solukhumbu), Jan 28: A machine of the Likhu II hydropower project suddenly shut down leading to a sudden rise in waterflow in the river today. A body being cremated on the river bank was washed away.
Jan 28, 2024
POLITICS
Chinese Vice Minister pays courtesy call on CPN (Unified Socialist) Chair Nepal
Chinese Vice Minister pays courtesy call on CPN (Unified Soc...
KATHMANDU, Jan 28: Visiting Vice Minister of the International Liaison Department of Communist Party of China Sun Haiyan paid a courtesy call on CPN (Unified Socialist) Chairperson Madhav Kumar Nepal.
Jan 28, 2024
POLITICS
PM consults with home minister about recalling TIA Immigration Office head and airport sec...
PM consults with home minister about recalling TIA Immigrati...
KATHMANDU, Jan 28: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal and the Home Minister Narayan Kaji Shrestha discussed the internal dispute between the two bodies under the Ministry of Home Affairs at Tribhuvan International Airport.
Jan 28, 2024
SOCIETY
TIA immigration office staffs wear 'black armband' in protest
TIA immigration office staffs wear 'black armband' in protes...
KATHMANDU, Jan 28: The staff of the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) Immigration Office have started by wearing black armbands during duty hours to protest against the alleged police excesses and the assault of employees at the airport.
Jan 28, 2024
Editorial
Eradicating tuberculosis
Eradicating tuberculosis
In the battle against tuberculosis, Nepal finds itself facing an uphill struggle. Despite concerted efforts, Nepal remains the sixth most affected country by tuberculosis in Southeast Asia, posing a significant challenge to the government's ambitious goal of eradicating the disease by 2050.
Jan 28, 2024
ECONOMY, Republica Watch
Lack of disaster preparedness causing severe damages to hydropower projects in Nepal
Lack of disaster preparedness causing severe damages to hydr...
KATHMANDU, Jan 27: On June 14, 2023, the employees working in the under-construction Super Hewakhola hydropower project at Chainpur, Sankhuwasabha, went to sleep after having dinner. The heavy flood in Hewakhola at around 9:30 PM not only washed away 18 workers along with their tents built on the ri...
Jan 27, 2024
SOCIETY, Republica Watch
Govt faces uphill battle to eradicate tuberculosis in Nepal
Govt faces uphill battle to eradicate tuberculosis in Nepal
KATHMANDU, Jan 27: Experts have pointed out that the government faces an uphill battle to eradicate tuberculosis in Nepal by 2050. The experts made such remarks at a program held in the capital on Friday on the topic 'Stop Tobacco Use, End Tuberculosis'.
Jan 27, 2024
SOCIETY
Wedding and tourism holiday for civil servants in Karnali Province
Wedding and tourism holiday for civil servants in Karnali Pr...
KARNALI, Jan 27: The government employees in the Karnali Provincial are entitled to two types of holidays apart from the ones they are currently enjoying. The civil servants working within the province will also be given wedding and tourism holidays.
Jan 27, 2024