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Private schools hike fee

March 23rd, 2010 dev No comments

DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHMANDU, MAR 22 –

Private schools in Kathmandu Valley have decided to hike the fee by 25.22 percent from this academic year, beginning April 15. Read more…

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Govt to scale up abortion service

March 21st, 2010 dev No comments

DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHMANDU, MAR 20 –

The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) is all set to scale up the medical abortion (MA) services across the country following the success of a pilot programme in six districts. Read more…

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Students may fail to crack a book

March 20th, 2010 dev No comments

TEXTBOOK PRICE adjustment ROW
DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHMANDU, MAR 17 –
The row between Janak Education Materials Centre (JEMC) and Ministry of Education (MoE) over price adjustment of school textbooks may leave students across the country sans books when the next academic session begins from April 15. Read more…

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Boarding schools set to hike fee

March 20th, 2010 dev No comments

DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHMANDU, MAR 19 –
Boarding and private schools are set to hike their fees by 20 to 35 percent across the country from this acade-mic year beginning April 15. The hike exceeds the government ceiling. Read more…

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Private schools to hike fees by 20 pc

March 16th, 2010 dev No comments

DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHAMNDU, Mar 16 –

Private and boarding schools are set to hike school fees by 20 percent across the country from next academic year that starts from April 15. Read more…

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Medical docs perform operation boycott

March 16th, 2010 dev No comments

DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHMANDU, MAR 13 –
Doctors appearing in the entrance tests for the post-graduate degrees-Doctor of Medicine (MD) and Master of Surgery (MS)-at Maharajgunj-based Institute of Medicine (IoM) on Saturday boycotted the exams alleging that the top office bearer at the Dean’s Office leaked the question papers. Read more…

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Patients’ woes galore

March 13th, 2010 dev No comments

DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHMANDU, MAR 10 –
Every year, the Ministry of Health estimates suggest, the nation witnesses 2,700 kidney failure cases. Read more…

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Taskforce for enlisting indigenous nationalities finalizes its report

March 10th, 2010 dev No comments

Written off three indigenous nationalities of the earlier listed 59, adding 29 new to finalize 85 nationalities as ‘indigenous’ Read more…

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Indigenous nationalities list

March 10th, 2010 dev No comments

DEV KUMAR SUNUWAR
KATHMANDU, MAR 09 –
A high level government taskforce assigned to review the enlistment of the country’s indigenous nationalities has put 85 nationalities in the ‘indigenous’ list. The decision, however, is likely to land in controversy as some caste-groups who have been missed out have expressed strong reservations. Read more…

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The Prime Minister must buckle up or quit

March 3rd, 2010 dev No comments

SPECIAL EDITORAL : Law and disorder
MAR 02 –
A second media entrepreneur has been shot dead within a month. On Monday, Arun Singhaniya, was killed in Janakpur, the cultural and political hub of the Tarai, on a day the people there were celebrating the festival of colour and hope, Holi. Singhaniya ran Janakpur Today, a local newspaper, and Radio Today, an FM station. Both are known to take strong positions against armed groups that proliferate the Tarai. Read more…

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