Hurricane Zeta hammers Gulf Coast with rain, wind, outages

Hurricane Zeta slammed into the storm-weary Gulf Coast on Wednesday, pelting the New Orleans metro area with rain and howling winds that ripped apart buildings, knocked out power to thousands and threatened to push up to 9 feet of sea water inland in a region already pounded by multiple storms this year.

The Elements drops its awaited new single

The Elements is a pop trio very prominent in the current Nepali music scene with an overwhelming amount of followers craving for their music. Consisting of Ishan R. Onta on vocals and guitars, Dipesh Gurung on drums and Raunaq Singh Adhikari on guitars this group has continuously been producing non-stop hits one after the other. Their debut single Tesaile Hidey Ma was a sensation which was actually aired from the Arbitrary Original sessions, though they’ve not released an album yet, nonetheless,...

K-pop band TWICE reveals its daring side on new album

TWICE, a popular K-pop group known for its catchy lyrics and colorful aesthetics, has released its second full album, a collection that invites listeners into the band’s more daring side. “Eyes Wide Open,” released Monday, features 13 songs, including the lead single “I Can’t Stop Me.” The all-female group, which debuted in 2015 and has achieved success in both Japan and South Korea, sat down with The Associated Press ahead of the release to talk about the project. Nayeon, one of the...

Dashain Festival And Animal Sacrifice Tradition

The celebration of Dasain in Nepal is synonymous with meeting family members and eating a lot of good food. The main item of food delicacies include a variety of non-vegetarian delicacies. During Dasain, the focus mainly is on goat meat with other varieties like buffalo, poultry and fish. Growing up in Nepal, most children get accustomed to animal sacrifice mainly during the Dasain festival and other important occasions like after the birth of a son and the marriage of a son in certain families....

Celebration And Safety

Dashain, the biggest Hindu festival in Nepal, has been celebrated amid fears of the coronavirus pandemic this year. People have not observed the festival with much fanfare this time around as they would do it in the past in view of a rapid increase in COVID-19 infections and resulting fatalities across the country. Despite being an important festival when people return home for reunion with their families and relatives, this year's Dashain has witnessed a notably decreased mobility of people. This...

Reality Of RAW Chief's Nepal Visit

Director of the Indian Foreign Intelligence Agency - Research & Analysis Wing (RAW), Samanta Kumar Goel's short visit to Nepal has created furor in Nepali political sector. He paid courtesy call on Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli on 21 October and returned to New Delhi the next morning. What was transpired in the meeting is unsurprisingly unknown except the exchanges of diplomatic understanding on the outstanding bilateral issues.

Constitutional Agenda For Youth Mobilisation

Media reports say that the government is going to enact the new youth volunteer mobilisation policy in the days to come. Deliberations are being convened to generate and collect ideas about what can be done to mobilise youth power into serving the needs of the nation. Though government has formulated policies towards youth mobilisation in the past time and again, these have not been effective enough to generate and achieve the intended results. Perhaps the new policy being discussed these days should...

End Animal Sacrifice

The 15-day Dashain festival is now going to be over. This is nation's most cherished Hindu festival, which is marked with families visiting temples, hosting feasts and children flying kites. As per the census report of 2011, more than 80 per cent of the total populations follow Hinduism. For Hindu devotees, Dashain symbolises the victory of good over evil. Every year, tens of thousands of goats, buffaloes, chickens and ducks are sacrificed to appease gods and goddesses as a part of religious practice...

NEPSE index touches highest point in last three years

The capital market that opened after Dashain festival on Wednesday showed bullish trend with a major increment of 41.20 points in NEPSE index. The index that opened at 1,606.26 in the morning increased by 2.57 per cent to close at 1,647.45 points in the afternoon. With this increment, the NEPSE index has reached the highest position in the last three years. It is the highest position of the index after 10 August, 2017 when the index was at 1,653.53 points. Before Dahsain holidays, the NEPSE index...

Govt asks all hospitals to avail free treatment to the needy

The Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP) on Wednesday confirmed 1,954 new cases of COVID in the country. With this Nepal’s tally has reached 162,354 including 121,824 recoveries and 887 deaths. Of the new cases, 843 are from Kathmandu Valley’s three districts. Of this the highest 696 were detected in Kathmandu, with 29 cases in Bhaktapur and 118 in Lalitpur. "In 8,248 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) tests done in the last 24 hours, as many as 1,954 were found to be infected...