December 5: Habitat destruction along routes taken by the world’s migratory birds poses an increasing peril to these long-distance fliers, with a vast majority crossing terrain that nations are inadequately protecting, according to scientists. The researchers said on Thursday they tracked the migratory routes, stopover locations, breeding grounds and wintering locations of 1,451 migratory species […]
December 5: Swedish scientists have built a camera that makes methane gas visible. The tool could help researchers study greenhouses gases and answer tricky questions about climate change. It’s also good for visualizing cow farts. Magnus Gålfalk of Linköping University explains that the camera works using infrared spectroscopy. Called “hyperspectral imaging,” the method simultaneously captures […]
December 4: Global smartphone sales growth will cool to single digits for the first time ever amid a slowdown in China, a new market forecast said Thursday. The research firm IDC said it expects worldwide smartphone shipments to grow 9.8 percent in 2015 to a total of 1.43 billion units. The forecast was updated to […]
December 4: Most people think of black holes as giant vacuum cleaners sucking in everything that gets too close. But the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are more like cosmic engines, converting energy from infalling matter into intense radiation that can outshine the combined light from all surrounding stars. If the black […]
Kathmandu / December 5: On the occasion of 25th death anniversary of Swar Samrat Narayan Gopal, various programmes are being organised in different parts of the Capital on Saturday. Gopal, the most prominent and popular singer and composer in the history of Nepali music, was born in a Newar family in Kilagal Tole, Kathmandu, on […]
Mumbai/ December 5: A new biography on Salman Khan, delving into the personal life and family lineage of the Bollywood superstar, is set to be released on his 50th birthday later this month, publishers said on December 4. The book Being Salman is the first ever to be written on the star, Penguin India said […]
Kathmandu / December 4: Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival (KIMFF) is set to start in a week’s time on December 10. This year, film lovers will be able to catch 80 films from 25 different countries at Kumari Hall in Kamal Pokhari. The 13th edition of the mountain film festival will kick off with the […]
Kathmandu / December 4: Brace yourselves, aspiring filmmakers! Get your creative hat on and prepare your best writing samples to send to Docskool, an arts organization working to promote better cinema in South Asia. The Writing Residency and Regional Workshop for South Asian filmmakers, part of Docskool’s Clink.Kathmandu program, are targeted at filmmakers who are […]
By Sandesh Shrestha / Kathmandu: Serpentine queue of motorists outside the fuel stations in Nepal today is not just the result of the current political upheavals, but is testament to the failure and lack of vision on part of successive governments, rulers and the political parties of the country. The citizens at large are not […]
Kathmandu / December 5: The Himalaya Peace Education Foundation with support from mountaineers Stephan Keck, Josef Einwaller and Christina Hirber and an Austrian group has built two quake-damaged schools at Kakani VDC in Nuwakot district. A five-room building of Brahmeshwory Lower Secondary School at Nigale village in the VDC was constructed with the investment of […]
