'Garden of green vegetables' turning into concrete jungle: 30 percent farmland lost to residential area in Madhyapur Thimi Municipality

Agricultural land owned by the family was 1.44 hectors in 1985 which reduced to 1.18 hectors in 1995 and then to merely 0.46 hectors in 2005.

426 new infections in 5,225 RT-PCR tests

In 5,225 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, 426 persons, 153 females and 273 males were found infected with SARS-CoV-2.

Threat of COVID-19 is still intact: public health experts

The public health experts have been voicing that the ongoing political happenings, to some extent, had impacted people's psychology as a result of which people perceive that the risk of COVID-19 had reduced. The reality is quite the opposite and we are still at the risk of the spread of the novel coronavirus is still continuing, the health experts say.

NA winter session to begin today

The session is summoned at 4 PM today, as per the Constitutional provision that stipulates the gap between the two sessions should not be more than six months.

Bomb-sniffing dogs? Check. Times Square crowd? Not this year

Gone were the revelry and shoulder-to-shoulder crowds that typify Times Square on New Year’s Eve, replaced by empty streets and an eerie quiet as the final hours of 2020 ticked away.

City-Village Connection Travel To Break City Monotony

Festivals: Bridging Families What does home mean to you? Among various answers and interpretations, some of you may respond to it as togetherness, family bond, sharing and caring, love and affection, parents, siblings, children, relatives, childhood, friends, birthplace, properties, and so on. In addition to these, what would you think when one responds to it as 'a week-long tryst in a year'? It would not be unfair to say- for many of us, living in the Kathmandu Valley for long, the home must have...

Spiritual Realm Of Shamanism

When the word Shaman is heard in the Western world, it is associated with an incomprehensible mystical force in the human imagination that causes embarrassment and even fear. Modern science has spelt out this word, and its historical origins are viewed and explained in a distorted and rather disgusting way. The basic values that have once served as the synthesis of nature and living creatures appear in a completely different form today, far from the original-values that the primitive man considered...

A Son's Noble Tribute To His Virtuous Mother

Prakash A Raj is a writer of multi-faceted talents who has produced and gifted books on various themes and subjects. Several dozen books authored by him comprise genres and categories from history, biography, travelogues, reminiscences, anecdotal accounts to fictions that make him one of the widely read and acclaimed writers both inside and outside the country. This columnist had had the opportunity of introducing and reviewing books authored by Prakash jee in this esteemed newspaper in the past...

Communication Barriers

The term `Communication` carries a wide range of implications in our daily lives. What intrigued me to pick up this issue is when I find people communicating with each other and unable to make others understand the intended message and sometimes encounters with controversial situations.

Spectacular Stars, Conjuring Constellations, Pleasant Planets

As darkness descend on earth, the night skies of this month would enthrall sky-watchers with spectacular stars, conjuring constellations and pleasant planets. The fleet-footed planet Mercury would reach its greatest eastern elongation from the Sun on 24 January. It could be glimpsed tersely after nightfall in western sky after middle of month, as it would be cavorting with stars twinkling in western part of constellation Sagittarius (archer). Planet Venus could be astounded shortly in southeastern...