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People from Newar community celebrated the Bhimsen Jatra festival with fervour on Tuesday. Read Full Story »
Police have arrested three suspects in connection to the rape of a 14-year-old girl at a guest house in Damak, Jhapa, on August 14. Read Full Story »
People from more than six remote villages of Darchula district are forced to cross the Mahakali river through wire bridges or Tuins and risk their lives daily. Read Full Story »
The traditional festival of Gaijatra or the 'cow festival' was observed amidst fanfare and humour in three cities of Kathmandu Valley and some other places in the country. The festival, observed by people from Newar community, started from Monday and will last for a week. Read Full Story »
Artificial Intelligence fascinated Sameer Maskey ever since his undergraduate days, when he was pursuing his bachelor’s degree in Math and Physics from Bates College in the US. Then, he decided to pursue a PhD in Computer Science focused on AI at Columbia University. Read Full Story »
Hundreds of pilgrims took a holy dip on Tuesday at Gosaikunda, a famous lake in Langtang National Park, in Rasuwa district on the occasion of Janai Purnima festival on Sunday. Read Full Story »
The Home Ministry has directed Nepal Police to suspend then Kanchanpur police chief SP Dilli Raj Bista for mishandling the Nirmala Panta rape and murder case. Read Full Story »
Suman Sharma started his career from Nepal SBI Bank in 1997 after earning his master’s degree in Economics from Tribhuvan University. Having worked at the bank for eight years, in 2005 he went on to pursue another master’s degree from Maastricht School of Management in the Netherlands. Read Full Story »
A pair of rhinos named ‘Solti’ and ‘Mitini’ that the government has gifted to China travelled to China in a cargo plane on Friday. Read Full Story »
The construction of the 800-metre underpass built between Khasibazaar and Bafal Chowk along the Ring Road has been completed and will soon come into operation. Read Full Story »
As he waits for the finals results of his LLB programme, 26-year-old Yuvraj Bista is readying himself for the Public Service Commission (PSC) examination. Bista, who moved to Kathmandu from Achham a decade ago to pursue higher education, has always aspired to work for the government. Read Full Story »
In 2010, under a grand plan to diversify and decentralize higher education in the country, the Government of Nepal decided to establish three universities – Far-Western University, Mid-Western University and Agriculture and Forestry University (AFU) –spread out across the nation in different development regions.These universities would focus on technical education and research, both of which were assumed to be mssing in existing universities, particularly Tribhuvan University (TU). Read Full Story »
Take Sujita Chaudhary. In 2013, fresh out of high school, she had the same plans as her friends – as a science student, join the Institute of Medicine (IOM) or the Institute of Engineering (IOE), two of Nepal’s premier technical institutions, both under the Tribhuvan University (TU), the oldest university of the country. Read Full Story »
Human Resources Society Nepal (HRSN), an umbrella organisation for HR professionals in Nepal, is set to organise the seventh iteration of the National HR Conference on August 24 this year. Having explored various themes in the past—like ‘Managing People during Crisis’, ‘Employee Care for Higher Productivity’ and ‘HR for Tomorrow, Trends and Transformation’—this year’s conference is set to be themed ‘Unleash HR for National Development’. Read Full Story »
Having worked for the multinational bank Barclays in the UK and several financial institutions in Nepal as well, Prakash Khatri believes that there is no one silver bullet that ensures efficiency and increased productivity at a workplace. Instead, he suggests that finding a balance between western efficiency and eastern amity might be the best way forward for Nepal’s burgeoning corporate sector. Read Full Story »
For this generation, to cave in was to once again succumb to a centuries old status quo—unjust and no longer conscionable Read Full Story »
By definition, library is a room or building that houses a collection of books, newspapers, periodicals, documents and prints in physical or digital formats. Libraries offer books that are a source of knowledge, imagination, creativity and awe. A library is where the intellect merges with imagination. I have always thought of libraries as a sort of a sacred place, a sanctuary of knowledge. Read Full Story »
I was born in this city. Most of the people here know me. Well actually, “knowing me” would be an overstatement. Let’s be honest. They’ve either read about me in the papers, or perhaps seen me on television. And, that’s it. Read Full Story »
Having started his banking career as a loan officer at Agricultural Development Bank in 1987, Shambhu Nath Gautam spent 14 years at various branches of Nabil Bank before leaving as its Head of Corporate Credit. Moving to Siddhartha Bank from its inception in 2002, Gautam was appointed its CEO in August 2017. In this conversation with the Post’s Alisha Sijapati, Gautam talks about leading a large organisation and his top management skills. Read Full Story »
The bleakness of Kathmandu never unsettled me nor did I ever give it much thought. With tons of paperwork left on my desk, my day was just beginning. I headed down the street lined with dust covered houses and riddled with puddles reflecting the overcast sky. As I manoeuvred through the city, I caught a glimpse of the long line outside the cinema hall. I shook my head, pitying the fools who paid any attention to such trivialities. Read Full Story »
My friend was getting married in a few months. It was an arranged marriage, something I had not heard about for a couple of years. I could feel the excitement in her voice when she told me about the preparations that were going on in her house. “I was confused in the beginning. Read Full Story »
Sometimes I would see the stranger, a silhouette of a man by the window who was, perhaps, also looking at me. I did not wave and neither did he Read Full Story »
She had been through a lot in life. She could have been anything, she could do anything, but here she was…a nokarni…who had failed to please her maliks Read Full Story »
A shortage of water has hit Bhaktapur after the local water supply entrepreneurs stopped work in protest of the periodic tax imposed by Changunarayan Municipality on water jars and bottled water produced in the district. Read Full Story »
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has directed the office bearers of the Tribhuvan University to bring forth the human resources plan in line with country’s resolution of ‘Prosperous Nepal: Happy Nepali.’ Read Full Story »
At least 10 people were killed in wild animal attacks in the 19 districts of the central development region last fiscal year. Read Full Story »
The soothing tongue is a tree of life, but a perverse tongue crushes the spirit. Read Full Story »
Around 2,000 former Kamaiya (freed bonded labourers) families in Kailali district are still waiting to be rehabilitated by the government, according to an NGO working for the welfare of former Kamaiyas. Read Full Story »
The Nalsing Gad River, a tributary of Bheri River, brings in firewood every monsoon from Barekot of Jajarkot district. For those living downstream, the swept logs are a source of firewood and they risk their lives to collect them from the flooded stream. Read Full Story »
A morning procession was organised to mark the 205th birth anniversary of pioneer poet and national luminary Bhanubhakta Acharya on Friday. Read Full Story »
Normal life has been thrown out of gear in Bhaktapur after many areas including Madhyapur Thimi have been inundated due to the flooding caused by swollen Hanumante River following torrential rains on Wednesday night. Read Full Story »
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