The Week
Changing lives
Changing lives
24 children from ages five to 10 come to Child Education Service Center in Dhungedhara every morning at 10. For the past 12 years, Child Education Services has been dedicated to providing childcare and basic education to children belonging to families with limited financial means. Here the children...
Feb 01, 2019
The Week
Weaving prosperity in women’s lives
Weaving prosperity in women’s lives
Shyam Badan Shrestha worked as a teacher for 13 years, teaching Science and occasionally Nepali too. During those days, whenever she was done with work she would start knitting or weaving. That was how she would unwind after a long day at work. In 1984, she took her hobby a bit further and started N...
Feb 01, 2019
The Week
Making the most of routine
Making the most of routine
Working as an illustrator while studying a subject that doesn’t overlap with your career one bit is no easy feat. But 24-year-old Alina Chhantel manages to juggle the two and does so quite effortlessly to boot. She is a sociology student who is in her final year of undergraduate studies at Tribhuvan...
Feb 01, 2019
My City, Entertainment, Music
Beyonce, Jay-Z offer lifetime concert tickets for fans who go vegan
Beyonce, Jay-Z offer lifetime concert tickets for fans who g...
Music superstars Beyonce and Jay-Z are offering fans a chance to win free tickets for life to their concerts in exchange for adopting a vegan diet for a month.
Feb 01, 2019
The Week
In the name of development
In the name of development
They say you can get a sense of the beauty of any city from the air – the bright lights, the roads, houses, greenery, landmark monuments and the like. If you are the sort of person who likes the window seat on airplanes (which I do) you would have noticed these details as you come in to land at most...
Feb 01, 2019
SPORTS
MMC beats Police to set summit clash with Army
MMC beats Police to set summit clash with Army
Feb 1: A decider from Afeez Olawale helped A-Division champion Manang Marshyangdi Club beat departmental team Nepal Police Club 1-0 in the ongoing second Madan Bhandari Memorial International Invitational Gold Cup football tournament on Thursday.
Feb 01, 2019
SPORTS
Jora youngest male to score a T20I half-century
Jora youngest male to score a T20I half-century
KATHMANDU, Feb 1: At 17 years and 103 days, Sundeep Jora became youngest male player to score a half-century in Twenty20 international cricket after staying unbeaten on 53 runs facing 46 deliveries in a 21-run defeat against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) during the first of the three-match series i...
Feb 01, 2019
My City, Gen-Next, Slammed
She
She
A queen of the beauty
Is peeping from the Windows of my heart
A Prince will come to take her
In a beautiful cart.
Feb 01, 2019
SPORTS
Batting fails as Nepal succumbs to 21-run defeat in first T20I
Batting fails as Nepal succumbs to 21-run defeat in first T2...
KATHMANDU, Feb 1: Nepal’s Sundeep Jora became youngest male cricketer to score an international half-century in T20 cricket on his route to unbeaten 53 runs in debut match but failed to prevent Nepal’s 21-run defeat against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at ICC Academy in Dubai on Thursday. He is th...
Feb 01, 2019
ECONOMY
Stocks turn positive after choppy session
Stocks turn positive after choppy session
KATHMANDU, Feb 1: The secondary market witness yet another choppy trading session on last trading day of the week. The benchmark Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) opened the day on a positive note, gaining 3.22 points by midday.
Feb 01, 2019