Mayor Shakil thrashed

Locals in Rajpur Municipality, Rautahat, have attacked Mayor Sheik Shakil after he refused to donate for Eid celebrations. The locals were irked after the municipality, which offers money to local…

Internet cost rising

Amid a flurry of price increases following the announcement of the budget statement last week, internet service providers warned that data charges would go up sharply from the next fiscal…

Mugu school students sans text books

Two months have passed since the new academic session begun in almost all districts of the country including Mugu. But, students at Soru rural municipality, the northern part of Mugu,…

Competing for water on a thirsty planet

In India's "Silicon Valley" tech hub of Bangalore, where gleaming office complexes and apartment blocks have sprouted faster than the plumbing to serve them, only 60 per cent of the…