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Promoting The Merit System

In developing countries like Nepal, finding a job is very difficult. Even qualified people are forced to remain out of job for lack of job opportunities. This speaks volumes for a large number of people remaining unemployed.

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Price hike:Pinches students' pockets too

As students, living in Kathmandu is not an easy task. You don’t have a job but at the same time you have to bear a number of expenses from travelling to college fees to going on a date to having get-togethers with friends. Perhaps for the majority of you, your parents are the sole source to fund all your expenses.

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Female Pilots Challenge Aviation, Social Norms in Nepal

Nepal’s aviation industry is a male-dominated sector, as fewer than 30 women hold pilot’s licenses. But despite high training costs and rising unemployment among pilots, women here are slowly making their ways into the skies
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Bill on inclusion has Madhesi bias

Despite criticism from the opposition parties and bureaucrats, a Cabinet meeting today decided to table the bill on inclusion before the Parliament, giving top priority to the Madhesi communities in government services

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Should class matter for education?

In other countries, they are very proud of educating their children. But people in Nepal are still proud of using child labor in domestic work

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Library O’ Library

I believe you still remember a ‘library is a place where you make friends with books’, a definition by virtue of which nine-year-olds recognise something they cannot define. I wasn’t even as good as a nine-year-old at this.

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The nurses’ dilemma

 Increased nurse mobility is deeply interlinked to the phenomenon of global nursing shortage, which refers to a situation in which the demand for nursing professionals exceeds the supply.

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China on the academic agenda

Academic programmes in Chinese Studies are offered in many universities around the world, including many universities in South Asia. However, despite sharing our borders and having good relations with it from historical times, we have given little or no effort to understand the giant next door.

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The length colleges take to ensure students' safety

The main factor that calls for tightening the security is to maintain discipline among students and also because young pupils have a lot of aggression related issues that can be easily triggered; often causing conflict and harm.

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Literate unemployment: A challenge

A qualified mind should get a qualitative job. Practical and technical education should be encouraged, and the present educational system must be upgraded.

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