By Our Reporter Members of a tripartite plus task force on quality tea have stressed the urgency to implement the recently announced minimum wage for workers. Trade union representatives said the minimum wage was announced in consensus among workers, employers and the government and any delay in its implementation would …

By Our Reporter Fan Shuxuan and Ms Chen Yiwei, both 16, Chinese national currently studying in the United States have sponsored tuition fee of six orphan students studying in the Kamana International School in Sanobharayang, Kathmandu. By saving their personal expenditure they are receiving from their parents, the Chinese kids …

Dr. Rajendra Bahadur Shrestha, who was bereaved by his father late Amrit Bahadur Shrestha, following the late Shrestha’s instruction, on the occasion of the 13th day of the latter’s demise, paid respect to the departed soul by distributing alms to the poor/needy and praying for eternal peace of the departed …

BY M.R. JOSSE KATHMANDU: Seminal, if yet incipient, geopolitical developments are taking shape on the America-Iran chessboard, with the strategic waterway – the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian/Arab Gulf – constituting a key element of that narrative. Though attention to the fraught Washington-Tehran relationship had been directed in this …

By NP Upadhdhya The slain Indian Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi had a fervent desire to gulp Nepal much similar to the way she swallowed the Independent and Sovereign Nation, Sikkim, into the Indian Union through the grand connivance of Lendhup Dorje, a Sikkimese national who had some political differences …

By Maila Baje As his government advances toward its six-month milestone, Prime Minister K.P. Oli must be busy wondering what has gone so wrong. Backed by a two-thirds majority in parliament, Oli expected to lead New Nepal on its first real steps toward peace, progress and prudence. Three tiers of …

By PR Pradhan Many things have been surfaced and many rumours have been heard since the Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee rejected the recommendation to assign acting chief justice Dipakraj Joshi to the post of chief justice. How politics has spoiled our independent judiciary, Joshi’s case is just an example. Today, …

How the CPN two-thirds in parliament helped the party to ride over the removal of the acting chief justice cuts a long story short. The supremacy of parliament is adequate adage to cover up the fact that both the head of government and the chief of the opposition had recommended …

BY SHASHI MALLA Pakistan Elections According to figures provided by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), the “Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf” (PTI/The Movement for Justice) party was declared the single largest party in the country following the July 25 general elections to parliament. It garnered 115 of the 270 National Assembly seats …

By P. Kharel Peer Pressure Dr Sundar Mani Dixit did it. Candid and even blunt, he does not hesitate to comment critically on his peer Dr. Govind K.C.’s latest fast-unto-death campaign. Associations formed by various interest groups are rarely summon their courage in condemning the misdemeanor or malpractices that their …