Making VNY 2020 successful

Published On: January 1, 2020 08:59 AM NPT By: Purnima Shrestha

Making VNY 2020 successful

Nepal is formally embarking on Visit Nepal 2020 from January 1. The campaign launched by the government aims to bring two million tourists.

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Is Huawei More Dangerous than Facebook?

Published On: January 1, 2020 08:34 AM NPT By: Ngaire Woods

Is Huawei More Dangerous than Facebook?

OXFORD – The United States and some of its allies have acted decisively to exclude the Chinese technology company Huawei from their national markets, yet they continue to ignore the similar threat posed by Facebook and other US digital giants. Democratic governments must now be equally decisive in dealing with this home-grown danger.

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Reimagining democracy

Published On: December 31, 2019 09:00 AM NPT By: Sarans Pandey

Reimagining democracy

When Carl Linnaeus first coined the term Homo Sapiens in the year 1758, modern humans had already shed their seemingly homogenous biological construction to reveal differences that were far too festered for common grouping. The ideological, religious and cultural leanings of different societies all over the world have been shaped with experiences and doctrines that are unique and relevant only to a particular community or a group.

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The year of the Yeti

Published On: December 31, 2019 08:30 AM NPT By: Devendra Gautam

The year of the Yeti

For a few days, yours truly had been searching for the topic to write something or anything about. You see this scribbler is not some great writer, who can write a masterpiece in a jiffy, in a manner that a magician brings out all sorts of objects as per the demand from the audience.

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Not Another Arab Spring

Published On: December 31, 2019 07:40 AM NPT By: Shlomo Ben-Ami

Not Another Arab Spring

TEL AVIV : “A specter is haunting the rich world. It is the specter of ungovernability,” began an editorial in The Economist earlier this year, paraphrasing the opening line of the Communist Manifesto. But it is not only the West that is grappling with ungovernability. Across the Arab world, protesters have been making it clear that they will be ungovernable until their leaders deliver good governance.

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Bank on maize

Published On: December 30, 2019 09:30 AM NPT By: Dinesh Panday

Bank on maize

In the decentralized governance structure, each local government can have its agricultural policies based on local needs to make agriculture prosperous and rural lives comfortable

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Conversion check

Published On: December 30, 2019 09:10 AM NPT By: Umesh K Bhattarai

Conversion check

Although Nepali law prohibits conversion and such activities are punishable by law, conversion is happening and some are even advocating in its favor

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Tourists Mean Hope for Palestine

Published On: December 30, 2019 08:50 AM NPT By: Rula Maayah

Tourists Mean Hope for Palestine

Even though Palestine passed the three-million tourist mark in 2019, and that record is expected to be broken again this coming year, unprecedented obstructions threaten to derail this progress

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Sense and insensitivity

Published On: December 29, 2019 11:33 AM NPT By: Ushma Rebel

Sense and insensitivity

I woke up with a sense of panic. Being a single parent meant my kids would starve if I got sick and I had been very unwell for few days. Then I saw my sixteen-year-old boy cooking in the kitchen. Sense of relief awash, I looked at my two-and-a-half- years-old toddler. She was already fed and changed. My sixteen-year-old son shouldn’t have to be a parent or a guardian to his half sister and his mum.

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Mothers can change the world

Published On: December 29, 2019 11:27 AM NPT By: Madhavi Singh Shah

Mothers can change the world

Globalization and modern lifestyle is posing a threat to family system in all parts of the world. Crumbling traditional family system has added further burdens to the mothers though family and motherhood are the foundations that establish culture and civilization.

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