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Guide to OZ Jobs/Rooms listingsKATHMANDU, AUGUST 21 The findings of a national survey undertaken by Nepal Press Institute and Bournemouth University of the United Kingdom paint a gloomy picture of working journalists, hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to the report titled ‘Impact of COVID-19 on Journalism in Nepal’, released by Minister of Communication a...
Of late science has been vulnerable to political expediency. Political forces of all stripes have found it convenient to coral, sabotage and even brutally flog science to force it in line with the political narrative being constructed. This trend is visible in many countries including Nepal, but strangely enough, the scientifically advanced western...
Kathmandu, August 17 Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) has made an offer of alternative jobs for trekking workers in two rural municipalities in the initial phase. Aiming to provide relief to workers who have remained jobless for a long time due to the COVID-19 pandemic, NTB has started offering alternative jobs from two rural municipalities — Madi ...
Kathmandu, August 15 Stakeholders have criticised the government for neither resuming regular flights nor continuing chartered flights. Although the government had announced resumption of regular flights from August 17, it postponed the plan to September 1 citing the increasing threat of COVID-19 pandemic. Starting from June 10, around 600 chartere...
NEW DELHI: India is ready to mass produce COVID-19 vaccines when scientists give the go-ahead, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in his Independence Day speech on Saturday, also launching a national project to roll out health identities for each citizen. In annual celebrations scaled down due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Modi identified health ...
KATHMANDU, AUGUST 13 The monthly salary of Rs 15,000 was barely enough for Keshav Kunwar, a resident of Bhaktapur, to make ends meet. But when the government announced a nationwide lockown in March to control the spread of coronavirus, the party palace he was working for also shuttered, thereby cutting off his only source of income for his family o...
COVID-19 Global Lens The COVID-19 pandemic presents the world with a huge challenge: everyone and every area is affected, and the response has to be both quick and consorted. This pandemic may be primarily a health crisis for some states, but COVID-19 is also an education crisis, an employment and economic crisis, a crisis of hunger and poverty, a ...
KATHMANDU, AUGUST 7 As the world marks Breastfeeding Week amidst the COVID-19 pandemic spread, World Health Organisation and partners are focusing on increasing mothers’ access to skilled breastfeeding support, calling on governments to protect and promote skilled counselling, a critical component of breastfeeding support. The World Breastfe...
KATHMANDU, AUGUST 7 As the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the global economy investors have turned to the bullion market as a recourse for their investment due to which bullion price has been rising each passing day. With the bullion price skyrocketing in the country too, domestic market has been losing its sheen since quite some time. And this situatio...
Sajpani, a quiet village in Surkhet district, used to be an oxymoron – while pani featured prominently in its name, the village had no water. Girls and women hauled water up from a river, an hour-long, back-breaking daily chore. Water was, thus, a scarce resource, with priority going to drinking, cooking and sanitation, while rationed quanti...