Dream comes true for ‘slumdogs’
June 1, 2009 
DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHMANDU:
Life was a nightmare for Krishna Pariyar, when he was living in a slum along the banks of the Bishnumati River. Besides the pungent smell from the river he also had to deal with the frequent threats that this hut would bulldoze his hut, the only ‘property’ he owned.
Govt to tackle high school dropout rate
April 15, 2009 
DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHMANDU, April 14 -
The government has made final preparations to launch a two-tier scheme to tackle the low enrollment and high dropout rate in schools in some 21 districts along with five districts of Karnali region.
The Educational Guarantee Scheme (EGS) is set for launch
on Wednesday, coinciding with the beginning of the new academic session. The first phase concludes on April 27 while the second phase will run through April 28-May 8. (Read More)
Rains raise health alarm
April 12, 2009 
ISHWOR N. RIJAL & BABURAM KHAREL
KATHMANDU, April 12 –
Kathmandu Valley denizens and Tarai people beware! Vector-borne diseases are likely to give the populace a hard time in the absence of serious efforts to keep the diseases at bay.
The Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (EDCD) under the Ministry of Health and Population has warned that water-borne diseases will break out in the wake of intermittent summer rains. (Read More)
Sunlight to feed national grid
DEV Kumar Sunuwar & Pragati Shahi
KATHMANDU, April 9 -
Fed up with extended load-shedding hours? Don’t lose hope, for there’s a ray of hope for the power-starved denizens of Kathmandu Valley.
(Read More)
40,000-yr elephant footprint in Valley
BY DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHMANDU, April 1 –
A team of geologists and sedimentologists from Japan and Tribhuvan University (TU) have discovered 40,000 and 24,000 years old footprints of elephants respectively on two separate soil sediments in Kathmandu Valley.
These two finds suggest that elephants lived in the Valley in those ages, according to geologists. (Read More)
Mobile toilets boon for city
DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR & PRAGATI SHAHI
KATHMANDU, April 7 –
More than a year ago, a group of European tourists came to visit the Patan Durbar Square, paid entry fees and strolled around. In the middle, one of them had an emergency. He looked around for a toilet, but found none. (Read More)
Form panel to push the agenda
Janajatis seek role in statute-making
DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHMANDU, April 3 – Over 20 organisations of Indigenous peoples, including the Nepal Federation of Indigenous Nationalities (NEFIN), have formed a committee to make the state set up a mechanism to ensure indigenous peoples’ participation in the constitution-making process. (Read More)
Marketing journalism
Pratyoush Onta
Two facets of the journalism profession in Nepal should be evident to anyone who observes the media scene. First the profession is socially exclusive to a high order. Second, journalism in Nepal has become a somewhat dangerous profession. (Read More)
Ethnic Groups and Race Based Federalism: A Recipe for Disaster for Nepal
By Khagendra Thapa
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” It seems that Nepal has no leader who can speak out the truth and not just repeat like a parrot what the Maoists comrades have been saying ever since the SPA came to power with the blessings from the Comrades as well as our friendly neighbor to the south. (Read More)
Consumer health overriding profits
DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHMANDU, March 18 -
It has very less to do with earning potential and everything to do with entrepreneurial responsibility. Kiran Rai operates a slaughterhouse of international standard at Talchhikhel, Lalitpur, even though a number of slaughterhouses with similar standard closed shop thanks to government failure to implement the Slaughterhouse and Meat Act 1999. (Read More)
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