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Leapfrogging with phone cash

Published On:2010-08-24 14:19:05

Growing up in a small village in Syangja, Himal Karmacharya excelled in school. He got a scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and worked for five years at Oracle. He could have stayed on like many of his peers, but decided to return to Nepal.

An Analysis of SLC Exam in Nepal

Published On:2010-07-07 02:39:40

One of the transitional board exams held during crossing over from secondary to higher secondary level in Nepal is known as School Leaving Certificate or more popularly as SLC in short. It is regarded as the ‘iron gate’ of education as all the students across Nepal sit for the exam every year with the same question paper, differentiated on the basis of development regions.

Budget airlines to the Tarai

Published On:2010-08-28 15:04:08

The NTB is the secretariat of NTY 2011. And we ve initiated five interventions for the tourism year. The first one was to get commitments from the political parties which we have already got. In order to make NTY a national campaign, we have inter-ministerial coordination. The third intervention is capacity building where weve focussed on selecting potential tourist destinations and conducting awareness programmes there. If these spots have accommodation constraints, well introduce home stay. We are also doing product activity expansion in association with district development committees, municipalities, local bodies of the FNCCI and travel associations.

Clash Of Personalities, Ideals Bedevils Maoist Party

The Maoist party is vertically split into three factions -- led by Dahal, Mohan Baidya and Bhattarai, who represent three different ideological currents. Dahal accuses Baidya of "ultra-leftism" and Bhattarai of "revisionism" within the Maoist movement. Similarly, Baidya dubs Dahal´s views "centrist" and Bhattarai´s "revisionist", while Bhattarai accuses Dahal of being a "wily leader on shaky ideological grounds ", and Baidya an "ultra-left adventurist".

Exotic Nepali drinks

Forget foreign brands when it comes to fruit juice in Nepal. Local options like bel (marmelos) and sea buckthorn juice will have you asking for more once you experience their exquisite taste and enjoy their health benefits.

Rail projects to cost Nepal Rs 800b

A preliminary report prepared by RITES India has projected a total cost of Rs. 800 billion for the Mechi-Mahakali and Kathmandu-Pokhara Electric Railway projects which are targeted to be completed within the next 10 years. The cost is equivalent to the country s annual budget of three fiscal years. “It is a huge project and even if the government allocates Rs. 100 billion annually in the budget, it will take around 10 years for completion,” said Tulasi Prasad Sitaula, joint secretary at the Ministry of Physical Planning and Works. “After the submission of the final feasibility report, we will send it to responsible bodies for discussion, start the work for a detailed project report (DPR) and also look for donors.”

Nepali Catwalk cat charged with trafficking

Anita Nakarmi wanted to be a professional beautician. To pursue this dream of hers, she sold her beauty parlour in Kathmandu and boarded a flight to Singapore to enroll in a beautician course there. Nakarmi paid Rs. 800,000 to Ramita Bhandari, a model-turned-dancer who happened to be her relative, hoping that she would get herself admitted to a prestigious beautician training school in Singapore. Nakarmi s dreams were shattered when she found out that she was instead taken there to work in dance restaurants and brothels.

In Nepal Money grows wings

In the largest ever case of foreign currency misuse, government agencies in the first week of February found that over US$ 100 million (around Rs. 8 billion) had been siphoned from Nepal in the name of wool import to various banks in Hong Kong. After finding that huge amounts of money were going to India on the pretext of buying insurance policies from Indian insurance companies, the central bank banned the exchange of Indian currency in purchasing policies of Indian insurance companies and paying their premiums and investing in shares issued by Indian companies.