Nepal Sambat marks the beginning of poverty alleviation campaign: PM Deuba

In his address to a programme organised by the Shankhadhar Sakhwa Academy on the occasion of Nepal Sambat 1142 at Madhyapur Thimi Chowk today, the Prime Minister dubbed the Nepal Sambat as an originality of Nepal and underlined the need of bringing this into practice.

Digitalisation Of Financial Sector

With the shift of the demographics from offline to online methods and with the increased use of technologies, there has been a significant push for digitalisation of everyday life such as ordering groceries, shopping, education, etc. When people use more online platforms for things they need, they also need digital payment systems to make it easier. This push affects all industries equally and demands significant measures to comply with infrastructure and regulatory requirements to ensure no loose...

Green Economy In Nepal’s Perspective: Path Ahead

Amid structural, economic and social transition, Nepal holds comparative advantage to orient its economy to a greener path. Nepal remains alarmingly vulnerable to climate change with limited coping capacity against climate induced hazards. With the rapid increase in urbanization, industrial spur and broadening production and consumption base, the shift to greener economy is not only an inevitable alternative for sustainable use of natural resources and consummation patterns, but also achieve the...

Say No To Body Shaming

Body positivity is a thought that all people can have a positive body image regardless of how society views ideal shape, size and appearance. The body-positive movement started some time ago to end the culture of fat-shaming and discrimination against people based on the size and structure of the body. These days, this topic has emerged all around the world, which initially had its focus on challengin

Dr Bhatta Talks About Health In Memoir

Are men destined to die by suffering deadly diseases like cancer, AIDS, heart attacks and brain strokes, among others? Not exactly. The causes of deaths are heterogeneous if we look at human mortality figures. Any disease can be deadly if it is not treated in time and properly. The lack of well-equipped health centres and the absence of professional medical staff hampers the quality of medical care, which ultimately takes its toll on people's health. On the broad spectrum, we often hear a lo

Syangja : A Tourist Destination

Bordering the capital of Gandaki Province, Syangja is a district with a high potential for the tourism. Besides, its scenic beautiful places, the district is known for its religious sites. The place is just an hour's drive from Pokhara. Various places and religious sites in Syangja district attracts both internal and external tourists. Here, we have discussed some of the most popular destinations, including religious attractions of Syangja.

Addressing Nation’s Environmental Concerns

In the first 100 days, the Sher Bahadur Deuba-led government has raised high hopes among people regarding the protection of environment, minimising human-animal conflict and encouraging the use of electric vehicles by lowering the taxes levied on such vehicles.

Red Panda: Facing Threats Despite Conservation Efforts

Red pandas, scientifically called Ailurus fulgens and known as Habre in Nepali, are on the verge of extinction and facing threats because of their habitat destruction by over-grazing, collection of timber products, firewood and poaching.

Follow Your Dreams

“If you want to achieve anything special in your life you have to work, work, and then work some more.” – David Beckham. Everyone tells us to follow our dream. We should indeed work more to achieve our dream. But, what if you don’t know what your dream is? What if you don’t know your purpose in life? So what do you do? Since a very young age, we have be

The Conquest Of Kantipur

From the top of a hill in Kirtipur Prithvi Narayan Shah had a last look at Kantipur, the city of his dreams. Monsoon had just ended, offering the valley with a cloudless blue sky and Kantipur sparkled like a jewel in the bright late afternoon sun. The walled city, framed by emerald green paddy fields and bordered by the Bagmati and Bishnumati rivers still swollen by monsoon rainwater, stood separate and apart. Inside the walled city, the tall temple of Taleju dominating the skyline, and dwarfing...

Mercury Marches Across Constellation Virgo

On Saturday, 25 April 2015 at 11.56 a.m., a 7.8 magnitude earthquake devastated human lives and structures in many parts of the country. It not only flattened several houses near its epicentre but also destroyed many earthquake-res

‘Krodh Kala’ Of Kalu Kumale

The sculpture is a presentation of art and sometimes it can be a symbol of spiritual experience, and one that expresses the essence of life as a visual medium. In a crowd of sculptors, especially those making idols of wrathful deities, sculptor Kalu Kumale stands as a strong pillar of Nepali art. Known as Krodh Kala Shiromani or the master of wrathful sculpture, Kalu Kumale (Dachha Prajap

Study On Aging Literature

No matter what is a living or non-living thing, change is the rule that governs the world. But, is it easy to understand this rule? There are many philosophies, theories and thoughts which have been already built on the concept of change; but the complete interpretation is yet to be achieved. Here, the context is aging literat

Prostate Cancer: Symptoms And Signs

What is Prostate Cancer? The prostate is a small, rubbery gland about the size of a ping-pong ball, located deep inside the groin, between the base of the penis and the rectum. It is important for reproduction because it supplies part of the seminal fluid (semen), which mixes with sperm from the testes. Seminal fluid helps the sperm to travel and survive. It is important to understand how prostate cancer develops and impacts a man's life over time due either to cancer growth or as a result of treatments. 1...

Why Your Diets Don't Work

The World Obesity Federation outlines the prevalence of obesity to have nearly tripled between 1975 and 2016. Similarly, WHO reports show 13% of the total adult population falls under the obese category. A 2013 survey in Nepal also shows how 17.7% of the Nepali population aged 15-69 become obese. While Nepal has been battling with issues regarding malnourishment in its population, obesity poses another big problem as statistics show obesity to kill a larger number of people than those who are underweight...

Content and Language Integrated Learning

Content and language integrated learning is an approach to learn subject and language at the same time that benefits the students having a command over the second language like English along with the subject they read. Many research studies have found that Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) develops the creativity, critical and communicative skills of the students resulting in good adjustment in 21st-century skills. CLIL is beneficial to learners of every subject. Internalising the...

Deluge Of Media Messages

In our daily life, a never-ceasing flow of news and information bombards us. It, however, isn't always obvious to us. Once we turn on our smartphones, a deluge of media messages greets us. When you drive to work, you may tune in to podcasts. Once we get to work, we can also constantly check our emails. Likewise, after a long day at work, we may go home only to switch on the television and passively consume media messages. Throughout our daily routines, we are always in the loop when it comes to media,...

Building Quake-Resistant Structures

On Saturday, 25 April 2015 at 11.56 a.m., a 7.8 magnitude earthquake devastated human lives and structures in many parts of the country. It not only flattened several houses near its epicentre but also destroyed many earthquake-resistant reinforced cement concrete (RCC) structures in the Kathmandu Valley, which were far from the epicentre. Why were the earthquake-resistant RCC structure destroyed? Why are many of them still being damaged? Let us scrutinise some facts about our earth

Shrestha Among 19 Towering Judges

Two professors with proven expertise in comparative constitutional law, Rehan Abeyratne (Hong Kong) and Iddo Porat Israel), have edited an innovative work entitled Towering Judges: A Comparative Study of Constitutional Judges. The book is an exercise made to present a holistic picture of the global judiciary in general with particular emphasis on legal luminaries who have carved out a special niche in the evolution and consolidation of the jurisprudence of constitutional law. They have achieved...

A Well Intentioned Advice

Mend or end! A not-so-subtle word of caution from journalist Zhou Shengping about the fate that awaits Nepal if the country’s leaders do not change their ways. Zhou has been in Kathmandu as the bureau chief of Xinhua News Agency since 2012 and, in that capacity, has met top leaders of all the major political parties. His warning ‘Mend or End’ is based on his observations and experiences from these meetings and interactions and his nearly decade-long stay in Nepal. Nepal is waiting a transformation...