Agencies: Long before the icy dwarf planet Pluto was discovered on the outskirts of our solar system, amateur astronomer Percival Lowell began his search for an object he called “Planet X.” It was 1905, and, at the time, our solar system had eight known planets. Astronomers had found Neptune, the eighth planet, in 1846 after […]
KATHMANDU: With an aim to reduce the language barrier for Nepali speakers on the web, Google has launched “Love Your Language Nepal” campaign, which includes translate-a-thon series in Kathmandu, and invited Nepali translators, language experts and language lovers to help improve the quality of Nepali translations online. The translate-a-thon event kicked off in Kathmandu on […]
Germany : German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Facebook to do more against racist comments and hate posts, in comments due to be published in a regional newspaper on September 11. Germany is expecting a record-breaking influx of refugees this year. Politicians and celebrities have voiced concern about a rise of xenophobic comments in German on […]
New York: Apple Inc (AAPL.O) will make gaming a key part of an Apple TV product it is expected to unveil at an event on Wednesday, according to a New York Times online report on Sunday. The article, which cited unnamed people briefed on Apple’s plans, said the new product is expected to have a […]
Agencies: Search engine giant Google has launched a fortune telling app that claims to predict your future. Dubbed Google Fortunetelling-Predict your future, the app lets users to ask any questions that they might have regarding their future. But the moment a user tries to type something, a series of questions pop up by itself. And […]
Kathmandu / September 23: Vice President of the Non-Resident Nepali Association (NRNA) Bhaban Bhatta has announced candidacy for another term. “I have decided to file candidacy for vice president for the upcoming term,” Bhatta said issuing a press statement on Wednesday. “I expect that you will do justice considering my past and future commitments regarding […]
Nepalese-American designer to the A-list Prabal Gurung poured his heart onto the runway with a deeply personal New York show paying tribute to his homeland following the devastating earthquake. His spring/summer 2016 edition, one of the highlights on day four of fashion week, opened with meditative chants from 30 barefoot monks dressed in red robes […]
Bangkok / September 22: Non-Resident Nepali Association-Thailand has elected new office bearers with election of incumbent President Khagendra Dhakal as its president for a second term. An election held on Saturday to elect new office bearers of NRNA-Thailand has elected Bhabindra Basnet, Asajita Awale, Mahendra Shrestha, Sankar Adhikari and Sakoed Rama as vice presidents for […]
Kathmandu / September 22: The incumbent president of Non-Resident Nepalese Association (NRNA) Shesh Ghale has announced his candidacy for the post of president for second term. Addressing a meeting in London on Thursday, Ghale said that he is contesting for the presidential post in the 7th NRNA Global Conference to be held in Kathmandu from […]
Kathmandu / September 20: Gangadhar Gautam is elected as the president of NRN-Belgium, in the election held recently he got 836 number of votes whereas his rival Saru Chapagain has to satisfy only with 681. Padam Gurung and Krishna Paudel are elected as the vice-president where as Yashoda Subedi is elected as vice-president under female […]