BERLIN, July 26: German Chancellor Angela Merkel had a telephone conversation with Boris Johnson on Friday

The power of conversations

May 24, 2019 08:59 am

The dilemma one faces at a young age is about what one should do in their lives. Too many interests or sometimes too few, the quandary is draining and tiring. To address this very state of confusion,

Talk to your children

March 16, 2019 01:59 am

Parents should regularly involve their children in family conversation at home because that helps in children’s brain development

KATHMANDU, Feb 25: Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi held a telephonic conversation with his Nepali counterpart Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, recently.

WASHINGTON/BEIJING, Dec 30: Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday held a telephone conversation, expressing their willingness to push for implementation of their agreements reached during the G-20 summit in Argentina, international media reports said.

Scams and records

December 14, 2018 10:05 am

There are a lot of peculiarities that contribute to making us ‘quintessentially Nepali’. Among the more stranger of these quirks, as I realized midway through a conversation last week, is our love for records. Apparently, we love our records because it gives us a sense of achievement and pride, both individual and collective that we perhaps lack from other spheres in life, say sports or science.

Amusing relation

November 5, 2018 10:45 am

I met some 60 people during the family function last week. My mom introduced me to a quarter of them, and my granddad introduced me to the other half of the crowd. The remaining lot asked who I was. That’s how I added those many faces in my mind, all in one day. I don’t remember their names individually nor do I recall how they are related. Some of them had interesting stories to tell about me. The kid they had seen years back who was all grown now. It was a fun conversation with some knowing about their experiences and their life tales and with some I wanted to take a rain check the moment they started talking.

KATHMANDU, May 1: Nepal Police central command had sanctioned a covert operation which allowed a special squad to reach a fake settlement with mastermind of the 33 kg gold smuggling case, an alleged phone conversation between the officials concerned shows.

KATHMANDU, Mar 13: Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) and Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) will jointly investigate on the leaked conversation between the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) and the pilot of crashed US-Bangla Airlines.

Conversation with the teacher

November 3, 2017 09:33 am

This scribe was informed that Sardaman Shrestha, the sculpture-making teacher at Srijana College of Fine Arts, was everyone’s favorite teacher. His witty jokes and compassionate teaching made sculpting lessons very interesting. Many even claimed that he was the ‘best in the world’.

NEW YORK, Oct 18:  Alyssa Milano was in bed with her two young children when a friend of a friend on Facebook suggested something that struck her as a great way to elevate the Harvey Weinstein conversation. She took the idea to Twitter, posting: "If you've been sexually harassed or assaulted write 'me too' as a reply to this tweet."

WASHINGTON, July 19: President Donald Trump had another, previously undisclosed conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a summit in Germany this month.

With tinder gaining its popularity in India, here are a few tips to keep in mind while having a conversation with a girl.