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Akbar Travels Expands Partnership with Sabre (24 Feb 2021) Akbar Travels, one of India’s largest travel agencies, has signed a new agreement with Sabre. Under the extended and expanded agreement, Sabre will continue to be Akbar’s preferred GDS partner in India, ensuring that the firm - which is the largest travel company in India in terms of IATA-approved branches, staff numbers and business turnover - can continue to access real-time, rich content ...

Nepal, Feb. 23 -- Common mental illnesses such as depression can be extraordinarily disabling, yet many people with those illnesses do not receive treatment.Few years back, I suffered from a severe stomach ache. It got worse and worse by the day. I could not sleep, could not eat and think. So next morning, I went to consult the doctor. I did not have an appointment so I had to wait for hours but those hours felt like eternity to me. I got helped...

Nepal, Feb. 22 -- If the government really wants to 'protect' women it needs to make the country safe from violence, prejudices, practices and laws that harm and humiliate women.Every time I felt humiliation as a girl and later as a woman at the hands of government officials, I always picked up my pen to write about it but I never published it. As the government recently formally contemplated restricting travel to women under 40, thinking we...

As million more vaccine doses arrive, experts call for massive awareness programme Kathmandu Post Kathmandu, Feb. 22 -- After India announced that it was giving a million doses of Covishield vaccine against Covid-19 last month, Nepal, like other countries in the world, decided to first inoculate frontline workers who are most vulnerable to infection. The government came up with a figure of 430,000 such frontline workers which included health workers, supporting staff, ambulance ...

A Look at Whats Driving Enterprise Demand in the Headless CMS Market PHOTO: Adobe Over the last decade, there has been a massive shift as traditional CMS platforms have made way for headless CMS alternatives. This shift’s primary driver has been the disruption caused by new and emerging technologies coupled with increased customer expectations. These expectations have placed additional pressure on enterprises to deliver content to multiple channels and provide customers with enthralling d...

news NOC enforces work plan to check cross-border smuggling of petroleum products My Republica KATHMANDU, Feb. 21 -- The Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) has enforced a work plan to check misappropriation of petroleum products through cross-border smuggling of the imported fuels. According to NOC officials, the corporation brought into effect the work plan from Thursday, asking its provincial offices for immediate implementation. The work plan talks about NOC officials taking necessa...

news Nepal begins process to register five species of large cardamom grown in the country Kathmandu Post Taplejung, Feb. 21 -- Nearly two centuries since their cultivation began in the eastern hills districts of the country, the process of identifying and registering five species of large cardamom indigenous to Nepal has formally begun paving the way for claiming the rights of ownership and patenting them internationally. According to Large Cardamom Development Center, Fikkal in...

Nepal, Feb. 20 -- The majoritarian mindset holds that any change to the existing political and cultural structure is a threat to the unity of the country.The decision of Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli to dissolve parliament has many quarters of Nepali society up in arms. Those cross-sections of Nepali actors believe that Oli's move has retarded the efforts to institutionalize many of the gains made through various people's movements. It is...

news Mobile imports nearly double despite tattered economy Kathmandu Post Kathmandu, Feb. 20 -- Nepal imported mobile phones worth Rs24.06 billion in the first seven months of the fiscal year 2020-21, an 84.67 percent year-on-year jump. Traders said imports nearly doubled even though the economy flatlined due to the coronavirus, and tens of thousands lost their jobs. One reason why smartphone sales swelled is that students had to attend classes due to the virus threat, traders s...

With hearing on House dissolution over, the justices will now study legal briefs and discuss case before verdict Kathmandu Post Kathmandu, Feb. 20 -- After nearly two months of hearing on the writ petitions against the December 20 dissolution of the House of Representatives, lawyers finished putting forth their views on Friday. The last of the five members of the amicus curiae, Gita Pathak Sangraula, rounded up the arguments. With the conclusion of the hearing, Chief Justice Cho...