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Growing use and misuse of Facebook

Growing use and misuse of Facebook
Haribol Acharya We want to connect, needless to say to the rest of the world.  Everyone wants his or her world to expand. The world means not just a physical geography, for geography matters little in  Today’s world with crumbling geographical borders. Today we want to connect through our ideas and we want to share ideas globally. For people are,  no matter  wherefrom he or she hails, whether she...
Saturday, November 18, 2017
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

Things that encourage people to move and migrate to new places

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

Is the Buddha relevant in Today’s Nepal?

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

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

Madan Bhandari: A legendary Nepali politician and immortal leader:

Madan Bhandari: A legendary Nepali politician and immortal leader:
Destiny is such that those who are really dedicatedly doing or want to do something for humanity do not live longer and yet in their short span of life they do something so great that their legacies remain continually benefiting humans. In  Nepal Madan Bhandari was a unique political leader who has done so much to establish socialism in  Nepal. The New York Times wrote: Karl Marx lives in Nepal in...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Jamarako Juice: something works as an elixir  that saves life:

Jamarako Juice: something works as an elixir  that saves life:
Today Jamarako Juice has been popular these days in  Nepal. There are so many examples of people being cured by the juice. Even looking at it from a scientific point of view it has many vitamins like Vitamins A, E and B and also many minerals and traces elements: Calcium, Phosphorus, Sodium, Potassium, Magnesium, Iron, and Zinc. In addition to minerals, it has a variety of amino acids Wheatgr...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

Rescued rhino released into CNP

Rescued rhino released into CNP
Chitwan: A one-horned rhino which was rescued from Balmiki Tiger Reserve in India, and brought to the Chitwan National Park (CNP) on Thursday, has been released into the CNP today. The female rhino of about 15 years of age, which was swept away from the CNP in a flooding four months ago, was spotted at the Reserve, around 20 kilometres east from the Nepal-India border, some days earlier. The rhin...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Woman arrested on charges of conning Rs 300,000

Woman arrested on charges of conning Rs 300,000
Tulasipur, Dang: The police have arrested a woman on charges of swindling people with a false promise of a job in Nepal police. Janaki Oli, 23, of Ghorahi Sub Metropolitan City has been accused of conning Rs 150,000 each out of two persons (Anita Yogi, and Bijaya Raj BK, both of Dangisharan rural municipality-7) with the same false promise. The police acted upon a complaint that confirmed Oli's fr...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Ganesh Man Singh remembered

Ganesh Man Singh remembered
Kathmandu: Nepali Congress leader Prakash Man Singh today stressed the need to follow the principles and teachings of late Ganesh Man Singh, NC leader, and the supreme commander of the 1990 democratic movement to strengthen democracy. He also praised the sacrifice of the late Singh, also known as 'iron man' in Nepali politics, for restoring democracy in the country, while garlanding the statue of...
Friday, November 10, 2017