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The Non-Formal Education Centre today said 92.5 per cent of Nepali citizens between 15 and 60 years of age are literate. Speaking at an interaction organised by the Education Journalists Network (EJON), Babu Ram Poudel, director, NFEC, said only 7.5 per cent of citizens between 15 and 60 years are illiterate. “Till date, we have already declared 18 districts, 35 municipalities and 1,156 village development committees fully literate while Nuwakot and Bhaktapur will be declared fully literate districts before the International Literacy Day and the National Education Day, which fall on September 8.” The government had launched National Literacy...

Four major parties are weighing three options to address the demands of the agitating Madhes-based parties and Tharu groups. The first option, according to cross-party leaders, is redrawing the federal map in a way that addresses the demands of the Tharus, Magars and the Tarai-based parties. If the parties take this alternative, there will be two provinces in the plains: one from west of Nawalparasi and the other from Parsa to Morang. Three Tarai districts—Kanchanpur, Jhapa and Chitwan—will be in the Hill provinces. However, CPN-UML Chairman KP Oli and Nepali Congress Vice-chairman Ram Chandra Poudel are reluctant to make...

Talks between the representatives of senior orthopaedic surgeon Prof Dr Govinda KC and the government panel led by Govind Pokhrel, CEO of the National Reconstruction Authority, have ended on ‘positive note’, both sides claimed on Thursday. The dialogue between Pokhrel and over a dozen medical staff representing Dr KC, led by Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) Dean Dr Rakesh Srivastav, headed into the positive line after the former assured that the report on Health Education Profession Policy would be implemented without “distortion”. Dr KC has been on a hunger strike for the past 11 days, demanding full implementation of...