Online Education amid COVID-19: An assessment

Published On: May 22, 2021 07:00 AM NPT By: Shanker Man Singh

It is important to understand that a new era in education has begun with the destruction caused by the coronavirus. This new age of education is new for all of us. Studying at home is not an easy subject.

Saving the world’s rarest crocodile from extinction

Published On: May 21, 2021 09:35 AM NPT By: Karun Dewan

Conserving gharial is just one example of how hard it is to protect one species from extinction. There is no undo button once these species are lost.

Understanding COVID-19: Dos and Don’ts

Published On: May 19, 2021 12:23 PM NPT By: Dr Prakash Budhathoky

If the patient is given steroid (dexamethasone)/LMWH/antiviral at the onset of pneumonia (Day 3), mortality should be an exception and not a rule.

Black fungus’s surge in COVID-19 patients in India and lesson for Nepal

Published On: May 18, 2021 11:46 AM NPT By: Dr Rohit Saiju

Black fungus affects individuals with low immunity like elderly people, cancer, diabetic and organ transplant patients. The incidence of black fungus is increasing in post COVID-19 patients because of the use of steroids, immunomodulatory drugs like Tocilizumab, and a prolonged use of humidified oxygen in hospitals.

What are Nepali youth thinking?

Published On: May 16, 2021 10:23 AM NPT By: Jagannath Lamichhane, Sanjaya Mahato, and Sushav Niraula

The findings of the survey paint a rather somber picture.  Of the 2,000 youth surveyed between 18 to 40 years of age, only around a third (34%) believe that the country is headed in the right direction. This is significantly less than a 2018 National Governance Survey that found 80 percent of respondents between 18 to 39 years of age considered the country to be heading in the right direction.

Do we have a government?

Published On: May 16, 2021 07:25 AM NPT By: Kamal Subedi

Until and unless the people realize that they have a state at the time of emergency, the political system - irrespective of how fancy it may sound - will neither flourish nor instionanlize. The country turns out to be a laboratory to make experiments of political systems. Anarchy at its worst rules the country. Isn’t it high time we washed our faces before scrubbing the mirror?

Beholding a tour to space!

Published On: May 15, 2021 07:00 AM NPT By: Angel Bashyal

Astronomy is not merely a ticket to a trip to space but it is a cavernous room full of imagination, creativity, perplexing facts, and all sorts of factors assuring the excitement!

Corona Discourse: A Different Dimension

Published On: May 14, 2021 07:14 AM NPT By: Dr Atindra Dahal

Corona Discourse: A Different Dimension

Exploring scope of natural resource royalty sharing

Published On: May 13, 2021 07:00 AM NPT By: Prience Shrestha

There remains the question of whether royalties should also be redistributed among localities which neither host nor are physically-affected or neighbor the resource exploitation works in the first place.

COVID-19 Wave II: Where will Nepal go?

Published On: May 12, 2021 07:00 AM NPT By: Dr Hom Nath Chalise

With South Asia becoming the center of the Corona pandemic in recent times, Nepal has reached a position where the daily positivity is very high not only in this region but also in the world. Past experience and inability to learn from the rest of the world is the biggest weakness and mistake of Nepal.