Power Supply To Industries

Energy is considered as the key element in establishing industries, promoting business and creating new markets and employment opportunities. It had enabled the world to bring about the first Industrial Revolution that changed the fate of humanity. Of various forms of energy, electricity has been the crucial to boost the development and facilitate the diverse activities of people. Nepal government has attached top priority to generating and distributing electricity to reduce poverty and realise desired...

In Black & White, Reference Point

Opinion scribes for newspapers might be commended, condemned or ignored for what they write. Categorised as contributors with specific deadlines for filling fixed space for views in black and white, columnists in countries with more than three centuries of press history are commissioned as columnists of daily, biweekly, weekly or fortnightly type, other time-specific terms. Most publications rope in weekly and fortnightly columnists, though Nepal bears an intriguing aspect pertaining to this aspect....

What Is Left Of The Left In South Asia?

On 3 March 2016, a little known student from Bihar delivered a fiery ‘azadi speech’ at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) auditorium. It was a moment as defining for Kanhaiya Kumar as for the mainstream left struggling to breathe under the weight of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India. Just released from the Tihar jail, in which he was held for 20 days on charges of sedition, which remain unsubstantiated as of today, Kumar addressed his jubilant friends that Indian people needed...

Where We Miss In Our Education

A few weeks ago, I took part in the International Physics Olympiad, a physics competition where every nation sends five high school students who excel in the subject. During the event, we interacted with students from all over the world. There were noticeable cultural, traditional, and lifestyle differences among us. But what kept me in awe when I figured out how my friends from other countries were educated until their high school.

Allen West, Texas GOP gubernatorial hopeful, has COVID-19

Tea party firebrand Allen West, a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of Texas, said Saturday that he has received monoclonal antibody injections after being diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumonia.

Chitwan clinch maiden EPL title

Chitwan Tigers clinched the maiden title of the Everest Premier League (EPL) after beating Pokhara Rhinos by four wickets at T.U International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur, Kathmandu on Saturday. Bhim Sharki scored a half-century as Chitwan chased the victory target of 112 runs posted by Pokhara in the 15.5 overs losing six wickets.

The Dhimay Girl

For as long as there has been music in Nepali society, there have been three kinds of musicians – the musicians who play cultural, ritualistic musical instruments as part of their social duty, the court performers who play before the aristocrats and the royals and the “modern” artists who plays the “new” tunes, semi-classical or folk, who records his work and releases it for fame, fortune and appreciation. Indira Lachhimasyu is a blend of the first and the last category.

Rasuwa locals start producing juice from sea-buckthorn

Locals in Rasuwa district produce juice from the fruits of a forest plant called ‘sea-buckthorn’. Though the uses of the medicional plant was identified earlier it was left without care. Sea-buckthorn, commonly known as Dalechuk, which the local Tamangs call ‘Taru’, has medicional qualities in it though the fruit has a sour taste. It is found in thick high hilly forestes like Langtang.

Thousands of saplings planted in 12 hectares to restore forest

Some 20,000 saplings have been planted to rehabilitate the 12-hectare river uplift land of Murgia Community Forest in Dhanushadham Municipality-9 of Dhanusha.

Police face challenges to stop circulation of illegal money

On September 24, a team from the Nagdhunga Metropolitan Police Circle stopped and checked a micro bus (Ga 1 Kha 6645). Sagar Mali, 26, and Krishna Adhade, 19, who were in seat numbers 8 and 9 of the hiace en route to Kathmandu from Chitwan, came under the police scrutiny. The police then started checking the black bag they carried with them all the way from their home in Maharashtra, India.