Bibee Limbu, Author at Namaste Times

Abu Dhabi, UAE: President Bidya Devi Bhandari has said that the goal of her visit to the United Arab Emirates is to further consolidate the bilateral relations and take it to a new high. She also underlined that her visit would help make the economic and social ties between the peoples of the two countries stronger. Head of the State, Bhandari stated that another objective of her visit...

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Man arrested with pistol in Dhangadhi

Dhangadhi: Police here have arrested a person along with a country-made pistol from Dhangadhi village, Dhangadhi sub-metropolitan city-7 last night. Rakesh Chaudhary, a resident of Campus Road, Dhangadhi Ward No. 7, was arrested with the pistol by a team of police on patrolling duty at 10 pm on Wednesday. The police suspect that the pistol might have been smuggled in from across the border f...

Thursday, November 16, 2017

New emerging sociocultural problems in Nepal

If we go to any remote district in Nepal we come across cases of large numbers of youths going abroad, mainly in quest of better opportunities: Mainly job opportunities, and educational opportunity. This kind of mass flight of people in the country commenced mainly from the time of the Maoist insurgency in Nepal started about two decades ago. The Villages or remote districts of Nepal were consi...

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Things that encourage people to move and migrate to new places

Haribol Acharya Nepal is indeed a country of innumerable potentials and possibilities. But Nepal has not developed and the poverty level has not sufficiently been improved. That nothing has been done at all. There have been indeed developments in some cases. In the educational field, there have been positive changes though quality education has not come about adequately. In the medical field al...

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Nepal is a country of harmony, peace and coexistence:

Haribol Acharya Nepal is indeed a small country, geographically speaking and yet Nepal a great country in other respects. First Nepal is naturally a rich country considering its biodiversity. A country of mountains, hills, rivers, river-valleys, plateaus, lakes, plains and the Himalayas, Nepal is indeed geographically a country of great variations. Tens of thousands of tourists flock here every...

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Was Jesus a historical person?

Haribol Acharya The historicity of Jesus was always in doubt. The historical evidence that Jesus lived and died is a matter of controversy. There are no concrete pieces of evidence for his life. And there was no proper genealogy or lineage to this end. Believers argue that Jesus really lived and worked a great deal for the emancipation of humanity no doubt. But a few scientists debated that Jes...

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Is the Buddha relevant in Today’s Nepal?

Let us, first of all, know who the Buddha was. Today the Buddha has been idolized. That means people built temples and carved out his idols. The Buddha was against idol-worshipping or in Nepali Murti puja. Here now the purpose of this write up as the title suggests is to describe the relevance of Buddhism in Nepal today. The Buddha means the awakened one in its English meaning was born in Lumbini...

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Growing social problems in today’s Nepal

Haribol Acharya Nepal is changing and in a better word, Nepal is in transition. When we say Nepal is in transition we mean everything is not the same as it was yesterdays. No doubt the world is changing and this is the nature of the world that cannot remain constant. But the rate or speed of change is far greater than it used to be three to four decades ago in Nepal. One thing, for example, i...

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

A few things that distanced the bygone generation from the modern generation

Let us make a fair comparison between today’s kids and the kids of yesterdays that mean the ones who were born five decades ago in Nepal. One thing more than any other that has totally distanced today’s kids from the kids born five decades ago is – technology. The technology was there in those early days also, no doubt. There were radios with Nepalese people though Televisions were a far-cry in Ne...

Tuesday, November 14, 2017

The need of spirituality in Today’s world

Haribol Acharya Spirituality is in demand more than ever before in this world, a world wherein people are always running in a rat race for some material gains. People are running for something every day, for meeting their daily needs. They have to work hard first to meet their daily necessaries like bread and butter, and of course they have to pay rent if they are renting flats; they have to pa...

Tuesday, November 14, 2017