# Nepal Live Today > News, perspectives and archives from Nepal ## Posts - [Media’s role vital to strengthen democracy: Speaker Ghimire](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2024/12/25/medias-role-vital-to-strengthen-democracy-speaker-ghimire/): Bhaktapur: Speaker Devraj Ghimire has said the role of media is significant to strengthen democracy. - [Two people arrested for offensive conduct after NPL final match](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2024/12/23/two-people-arrested-for-offensive-conduct-after-npl-final-match/): Kathmandu: Police have arrested two people who behaved in an indecent manner during the Nepal Premier League (NPL) final match on Saturday. - [PM Oli felicitates NPL Champions Janakpur Bolts](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2024/12/22/pm-oli-felicitates-npl-champions-janakpur-bolts/): Kathmandu: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has felicitated the players and the managers of Janakpur Bolts, the title-holders of the first edition of Nepal Premier League (NPL) Cricket Championship. - [Over 5,300 people benefitted from health camp](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2024/12/19/over-5300-people-benefitted-from-health-camp/): Sudurpaschim: More than 5,300 people were benefitted from health camp organized at Bhotenamlang and Thangpaldhap of Panchpokhari Thangpal rural municipality in Sindhupalchowk. - [Long read | How development projects can go wrong when they disregard the rights of the indigenous people](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2024/01/02/long-read-how-development-projects-can-go-wrong-when-they-disregard-the-rights-of-the-indigenous-people/): Indigenous people across the country had one basic expectation when Nepal decided to embrace federalism, getting rid of a centuries-old political system that systematically discriminated against them. - [Let there be development but think about indigenous people too](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2023/10/04/let-there-be-development-but-think-about-indigenous-people-too/): According to the Rising Nepal, Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation Shakti Bahadur Basnet, while setting the foundations stone of the 132/32 kv substation at Janaki Rural Municipality in Banke district, said Nepal will be fully electrified in two years. - [New Chinese map continues to draw flak in Nepal](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2023/09/02/new-chinese-map-continues-to-draw-flak-in-nepal/): Kathmandu: Nepal has objected to the 2023 edition of the standard map of China released on August 28. - [Why Nepali universities are failing](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2023/08/02/why-nepali-universities-are-failing/): Case I: Last month, Tribhuvan University, Nepal’s largest and oldest university, issued a notice seeking proposals for a merger between two or more colleges. - [How caste-hate speech is helping to entrench discrimination](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2023/08/01/how-caste-hate-speech-is-helping-to-entrench-discrimination/): I am taking interest in hate speech in the country. - [Long read| Why the 1923 Nepal–Britain Treaty of Friendship is of great importance for Nepal and the UK](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2023/07/18/long-read-why-the-1923-nepal-britain-treaty-of-friendship-is-of-great-importance-for-nepal-and-the-uk/): The 1923 treaty between Nepal and the British imperial power is of historical significance for Nepal, despite the fact that, in 1950, it was replaced by two separate treaties of peace and friendship—one with independent India and the other one with the UK after the British withdrawal from South Asia in 1947. - [Bridging the digital divide in Nepal](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2023/07/06/bridging-the-digital-divide-in-nepal/): The digital divide refers to the gap between individuals or communities who have access to digital technologies and the internet and those who do not. - [Revealed: The intermediaries and companies behind Nepal Airlines USD 216 million Airbus purchase](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2023/06/02/revealed-the-intermediaries-and-companies-behind-nepal-airlines-usd-216-million-airbus-purchase/): An investigative report has identified colorful international business figures and companies from Moldova, Portugal and Germany behind offshore companies that sold two Airbus jets to Nepal Airlines in 2017 for $216.38m. - [Reading Mela organized in Salyan](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2023/05/29/reading-mela-organized-in-salyan/): Kathmandu: Sharada Municipality organized Reading Mela in Salyan on Monday with the aim to connect children with the world of imagination through books and storytelling. - [Injured Yarsagumba collectors rescued after four days](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2023/05/16/injured-yarsagumba-collectors-rescued-after-four-days/): Khalanga: Three individuals, who sustained injuries from a lightning strike while collecting the precious alpine herb yarsagumba in Darchula, have been successfully rescued today after four days. - [As many as 42 conflict victim groups of Nepal raise objections to the faulty transitional justice bill](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2023/03/21/as-many-as-42-conflict-victim-groups-of-nepal-raise-objections-to-the-faulty-transitional-justice-bill/): Kathmandu: Various communities of the victims of the decade-long armed conflict (1996-2006) have raised serious objections to the government’s attempts to endorse the bill that could provide amnesty to the perpetrators of heinous crimes committed during the war time. - [Resistance to land acquisition is posing a challenge to infrastructure projects in Nepal. What can be done?](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2023/03/02/resistance-to-land-acquisition-is-posing-a-challenge-to-infrastructure-projects-in-nepal-what-can-be-done/): The promise of development is always a welcome-news, yet it often comes at a cost. - [Nepal, India agree to add 200 MW to Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur transmission line](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2023/02/19/nepal-india-agree-to-add-200-mw-to-dhalkebar-muzaffarpur-transmission-line/): Kathmandu: An agreement has been reached between Nepal and India to increase the power import and export capacity from the existing 600 to 800 MW through the first international Dhalkebar-Muzaffarpur 400 KV transmission line. - [Unequal votes: The undemocratic election system of Nepal](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2022/11/20/unequal-votes-the-undemocratic-election-system-of-nepal/): Critical development efforts cannot succeed without a legitimate and democratically elected government that is responsive and accountable to its citizens. - [Nepal Oil Corporation’s Price Stabilization Fund: Have Nepalis benefited from it?](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2022/08/08/nepal-oil-corporations-price-stabilization-fund-have-nepalis-benefited-from-it/): As a country that is utterly and unequivocally reliant on the import of refined oil (with no domestic oil extraction plants or refineries), Nepal doesn’t have the luxury of setting oil prices according to the production costs incurred. - [Workshop on ‘Index-Based Flood Insurance’ held](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2022/07/27/workshop-on-index-based-flood-insurance-held/): Kathmandu: The provincial level workshop on ‘Index-Based Flood Insurance’ has been held in Kailali. - [World Bank approves USD 275 million for Butwal-Chanauta road expansion](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2022/06/29/world-bank-approves-usd-275-million-for-butwal-chanauta-road-expansion/): Kathmandu: The World Bank has approved USD 275 million as part of the Accelerating Transport and Trade Connectivity in Eastern South Asia (ACCESS) project. - [Nepal’s land use legislation is flawed: What should be done?](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2022/06/13/nepals-land-use-legislation-is-flawed-what-should-be-done/): The Land Use Act (2019) and the more recently endorsed Land Use Regulation, if implemented, have the potential to cause the next political unrest. - [Do we really need public enterprises?](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2022/06/06/do-we-really-need-public-enterprises/): Going against the very spirit of a free market, Finance Minister Janardan Sharma in his budget speech announced plans to breathe life back into nine sick industries—Janakpur Cigarette Factory, Agricultural Tools Factory, Gorkhali Rubber Industry, Nepal Orind Magnesite, Nepal Metal Company, Biratnagar Jute Mill, Birgunj Sugar Factory, Hetauda Textile Industry and Butwal Yarn Factory. - [Interview | Kathmandu will be given a facelift: Mayor Balen Shah](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2022/05/27/interview-kathmandu-will-be-given-a-facelift-mayor-balen-shah/): Independent candidate Balendra Shah has sealed victory in the local election in the Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC). - [Using remittance for the better of the Nepali economy](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2022/05/16/using-remittance-for-the-better-of-the-nepali-economy/): Remittance inflows to Nepal decreased by 1.7 percent to NRs.631.19 billion in the month of March of the ongoing Fiscal Year 2021-22 from the review period in the same month of the last fiscal year. - [Game of lies and deceit](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2022/05/02/as-the-election-date-is-approaching-game-of-lies-and-deceit-in-nepal/): With the local election dates approaching, there has been a simultaneous rise of optimism and cynicism in the air. - [Respect international laws to respect women](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2022/03/07/respect-international-laws-to-respect-women/): As International Women’s Day (IWD) is being celebrated, the world leaders need to pause to check and analyze if the domestic and international laws formulated to safeguard the rights and address the concerns of women have been fully implemented or they remain mere black letters of the law. - [MCC Nepal compact: What is in the “interpretative declaration” endorsed by Nepal’s parliament?](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2022/02/27/mcc-nepal-compact-what-is-in-the-interpretative-declaration-adopted-by-nepals-parliament/): Kathmandu: In an apparent bid to give a face-saving way out to radical communist leaders, the ruling alliance on Sunday reached an agreement on attaching ‘interpretative declaration’ as a part of the Compact. - [Once a power-starved nation, how Nepal is now wasting its precious electricity](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2022/01/24/once-a-power-starved-nation-how-nepal-is-now-wasting-its-precious-electricity/): Kathmandu: Despite having a huge potential to generate electricity, Nepal faced a serious power shortage for a long time. - [Nepal progresses significantly in nutrition of mothers and children at risk: UNICEF](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2022/01/22/nepal-progresses-significantly-in-nutrition-of-mothers-and-children-at-risk-unicef/): Kathmandu: According to United Nations Children Fund’s special supplement of the Maternal and Child Nutrition Journal published on Thursday, Nepal achieved globally renowned progress in reducing child stunting and scaling up nutrition services during the Millennium Development Goals era (2002 -2016), despite periods of political and economic instability. - [Schools closed in Humla as mercury dips](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2022/01/03/schools-closed-in-humla-as-mercury-dips/): Humla: Community and private schools in Humla district have closed for the winter vacation with the increase in the cold. - [A brief history of deusi bhailo culture and how it is adapting to changing times](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2021/11/04/a-brief-history-of-deusi-bhailo-culture-and-how-it-is-adapting-to-changing-times/): Kathmandu: The festival of lights is among us and many of us will have engaged in such activities as drawing rangoli, celebrating animals, playing with fire crackers, playing cards, bhai tika and singing deusi bhailo. - [‘President holds right to determine bases whether PM gets vote of confidence’](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2021/06/17/president-holds-right-to-determine-bases-whether-pm-gets-vote-of-confidence/): Kathmandu: The office of the President has sent a 14-point written response to the Supreme Court in regard to the HoR dissolution. - [Nepal’s imploding Covid-19 crisis: Abandoned by government, not prioritized by the international community](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2021/05/03/nepals-imploding-covid-crisis-abandoned-by-government-not-prioritized-by-the-international-community/): The unprecedented Covid-19 second wave is raging across Nepal like a wildfire, already stretching the country’s health system to breaking point, and taking a heavy toll on the livelihood and wellbeing. - [NOC minting billions in profit adding burden to consumers](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/2021/04/26/rs-11-billion-in-noc-stabilization-fund-lies-idle-as-price-hike-adds-burden-to-consumers/): Kathmandu: The Nepal Oil Corporation that has billions of rupees in stabilization fund has been adjusting price of petroleum products ‘haphazardly’ adding a burden to consumers. ## Pages - [About us](https://darkblue-raccoon-284732.hostingersite.com/about/): Nepal Live Today began publishing on 24 April 2021 in Kathmandu. 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