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The slippery slope of self-diagnosis
Published On: August 5, 2016 04:30 AM NPT By: Cilla Khatry
With literally millions of medical websites, blogs, and other pages, the Internet can spew out an overwhelming amount of information or actually misinformation, in many cases.
The spiraling state of health
Published On: August 5, 2016 04:00 AM NPT By: The Week Bureau
The state of our health is largely dictated by where we live and how we live. Different cities report varying trends when it comes to health issues.
Swimming with Katie
Published On: August 5, 2016 02:30 AM NPT By: Biswas Baral
Every night during the fortnight of the summer games, I would be riveted to the idiot box for the highlight package of the day’s events. I enjoyed the footage of all sports: weight-lifting, track and field, football, table tennis. But most of all I wanted to watch swimming and diving.
Confessions of a spendthrift
Published On: August 5, 2016 02:00 AM NPT By: Isha Bista
A colleague recently confessed that she finishes her salary in two weeks time, and that her savings account currently has Rs 700 and that’s because Rs 500 is the minimum balance required to maintain that account.
Words to remember
Published On: August 5, 2016 01:30 AM NPT By: The Week Bureau
There are some lines that just stay with us forever. They make such an impression that we find ourselves reciting them time and again. So The Week asked some readers, in particular poetry enthusiasts, to share such discoveries and tell us what it means to them. From Wordsworth to our very own slam poet, their picks take us through a treasure trove of various commendable works.
Women in Thangka painting
Published On: July 29, 2016 05:30 AM NPT By: Priyanka Gurung
Every single time a customer enters her teacher’s thangka shop in Bhaktapur, Meru Tamang can’t help but look up expectantly from the back room. The 21 year old apprentice can be found practicing her shading and coloring there on the weekdays. She has been training in the arts of thangka painting for a little more than a year now and the first batch of the work she has helped with has only recently been put up for sale. So whenever a potential buyer begins to survey the various thangkas at the shop’s display, she shares that she can’t help but feel a tinge of nerves and excitement.
Celebrating and conserving wildlife
Published On: July 29, 2016 04:00 AM NPT By: Simrika Sharma
In the Tarai Arc Landscape of Nepal, wildlife biologists, researchers and field staff from the Government of Nepal, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC) are using cameras equipped with infrared triggers, called camera traps, to obtain critical data about wildlife and their habitats.
Remembering Dr. NN Sinha
Published On: July 29, 2016 02:30 AM NPT By: Peter J Karthak
Dr. Professor and HMG Secretary Narsingh Narayan Sinha passed away on Tuesday, July 12, 2016, at 85. He was Professor of English at the Department of English, University College, Tribhuvan University (TU) at Kirtipur, where he taught us, the 11 MA students – the ‘Group of 1969-71.’
Tales of Kathmandu Traffic
Published On: July 29, 2016 02:15 AM NPT By: Kalu Maila
Recently, our traffic police increased the fines for all traffic violations. I told my wife it was a good thing and our Kathmandu drivers will now think twice before violating traffic rules.
The quest to go virtual
Published On: July 29, 2016 01:45 AM NPT By: The Week Bureau
At a time when computers have become indispensible and people have begun relying on the Internet to perform more than 90 percent of their tasks, it’s no surprise that libraries too have found their place in the digital world. This trend of virtual libraries has already proven to be popular among the developed and developing countries and concerned parties in the under developed regions too are also working hard to bring its conveniences to its people.
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