Pandemic Outbreak And Lockdown Pastime

A new virus called, COVID-19, emerged in Wuhan of China towards the end of 2019. After the pandemic outbreak, a few months passed as a ‘fun-filled’ period for many, listening to the rhetoric of American President Trump as he blew hot and cold over the spread of the virus in his own country. The World Health Organisation had then alerted the world that the spread of the virus might take the shape of a pandemic which proved right. The spread of COVID-19 and the high number of deaths in Italy had...

A Revolutionary Tale Of Love, Sorrow And Struggle

Gaurika- Heroine of Crisis- is a revolutionary tale of love, sorrows and struggles of a typical Nepali family life. The author Chandra Kumar Phunyal, who has been writing on social issues in various newspapers and magazines, has recently got this first novel published by Himalayan Map House, Kathmandu. In its 136 pages, the novel depicts the intricacies of family values and contemporary social issues that shape our society. The novel has also beautifully brought to light the hidden practices of...

Visible Heavenly Bodies To Wow Sky-gazers

The night skies of this festive month would make the sky-gazers happy with the splendid sights of the planets, constellations and many other heavenly objects that are dotted all over the heavens. The elusive planet Mercury would be lost in solar glare, due to its proximity to the Sun. It would thus stay mostly out of view this month. Mercury would be sliding across the starry fields of zodiacal constellations Libra (scales) and Virgo (maiden). On 01 October it would reach its greatest eastern elongation...

Attraction Towards Gurjo Increasing

Nepal is a home of various medicinal plant resources, which are the bases of Ayurvedic therapeutics since time immemorial. The use of various medicinal plants has often been described in detailed manner in Vedic and Ayurvedic holy books like Charaka Samhita, Sushruta Samhita, Kashyapa Samhita, etc and were widely used at those times for curing various diseases. Although being blessed with rich variety of valuable medicinal plants, the use of various medicinal plants and their knowledge are slowly...

Police tighten security in crowded areas

As the festivals of Dashain and Tihar are approaching, the Metropolitan Police Office, Ranipokhari has started tightening security across the valley targeting the crowded places. Despite more new COVID-19 cases being detected every day, places across the valley have started drawing crowds requiring a need of proper surveillance. “Our officers are determined in providing security to the people every day. Meanwhile, the officers have been directed to increase surveillance in the busiest places...

Tourism Ministry signs MoU with Karnali to develop Surkhet Airport

The federal government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Karnali state government to construct airports. It is the first MoU between the federal government with the sub-national level. It was signed to develop, expand and upgrade the Surkhet Airport. State Secretary Ghanashyam Upadhayaya and Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) signed the MoU on Thursday at a programme organised at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MoCTCA).

25,000 PU students are attending time-bound home examinations

At a time when millions of students across the country are in dilemma about their examinations as the authorised boards of examinations remain undecided on examinations, about 25,000 students of Purbanchal University (PU) are appearing in time-bound home exam from Tuesday. As per the decision of PU , odd semester students of engineering, medical, science and technology, management and some students of humanities of Bachelor and Master programmes are attending examinations from their own homes as...

Biodiversity Protection

Nepal is a nation known around the world for its unique biodiversity that has become a source of knowledge to scholars, researchers and scientists. Its topography, abundance of natural plants, rivers, snowy mountains, lush green hills and plains, various species of animals and birds, and most importantly, unique climate make the country's biodiversity unique to the rest of the world. Being a mountainous country of which geography has been occupied mostly by high mountains and rugged hills, the nation's...

Politics Dictates Public Institutions

The union of Tribhuvan University professors and teachers affiliated with a major opposition political party organised a webinar, the other day, in which discussion did focus on flaying the government and its ministers for alleged failures on several fronts. Why do unions of professors and teachers choose to convene forums where political and partisan issues are emphatically deliberated? Why the subjects of educational policies and academic issues do not figure in such forums organised by teache

‘Peace For Peace’ But Not ‘Land for Peace’

In a reshaped Middle East characterised by new agreements between Israel and two Gulf Arab states for normalising political relations, analysts opine that a new doctrine “Peace for Peace” is gaining traction. Israel is winning recognition from more Arab nations with continued disregard for the Palestinian rights. The Saudi-led 2002 Arab Peace Initiative linked Israel’s diplomatic ties with Arab nations with its withdrawal from the occupied Arab territories.