Activist turned entrepreneur finds economic independence and empowers other women
A train network will generate jobs in construction and operation, bring efficiency and connectivity
Nepal’s Department of Foreign Employment (DoFE) issued more than 240,000 labour permits for migrant workers in 2021, even as the country reeled…
Scars of injuries sustained by Shyam in his scalp when his Nepali employer in a restaurant in Luxembourg allegedly beat him with a tandoor…
Almost exactly two years ago, Prime Minister Oli launched an ambitious employment creation scheme, which was widely considered at the time as a…
Nepali Times Archives/Om Astha RaiNepal has set a positive image in the region for adopting a ‘employer pays’ principle that removes the cost…
Three months after nearly 400,000 Nepali workers returned from India following the Covid-19 lockdown, many are now headed back because they have…
As serious as the rapid spread in Nepal of the novel coronavirus looks, even more frightening is what the lockdown meant to prevent it will do…
After 50 days what is utterly extraordinary has come to seem normal, the unimaginable is commonplace
The COVID-19 lockdown by the government is an effort at ‘primary protection’, and builds on the experience of how other countries have flattened…
In many parts of the world the ratio of the working age group to the elderly population is on a decline. By 2050, OECD countries will lose more…
Nepal has made progress in most areas related to children, like health, education, street children welfare, but challenges remain in nutrition,…
Nepal is not just exporting manpower to Qatar now, but also veggies
On the face of it, when 41% of Nepalis in a public opinion poll say the country is headed in the right direction it could be taken as a decent…
At a ministerial review meeting last month, Prime Minister K P Oli warned bureaucrats he would not take “If’s and but’s” anymore in expediting…
Prime Minister K P Oli’s media blitz this week taking full credit for a social security scheme for private sector employees was an attempt to…
Even if it has a comfortable majority in Parliament, no one should envy the current Communist rulers of Nepal. Prime Minister K P Oli, for all…
