February 26: Members of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, otherwise known as Pastafarians, registered their first official marriage celebrant in New Zealand. The group announced the news on its Facebook page, although the first couple that was set to be married by the new celebrant decided to call off their wedding. “Our happy […]
February 26: A herd of more than 20 horses broke loose from a Tennessee stable and hit the streets on Friday morning. Sevierville Police Department warned drivers of the escape in a series of tweets as the horses ran through an area near a local mall. “Traffic officers are in route to the area of […]
February 27: Apple’s biggest business rivals will be supporting the company in its court battle against the FBI. Amazon (AMZN, Tech30), Facebook, Google (GOOGL, Tech30), Microsoft and other tech companies will file letters to the court stating that they stand with Apple, according to the companies and sources familiar with their plans. Each has to […]
February 26: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says more work still needs to be done to police hate speech on the social media site in Germany. Answering a question Friday at a town hall event in Berlin, Zuckerberg said “hate speech has no place on Facebook” and that he had being instituting better controls on monitoring […]
February 26: It is a simple but chilling statistic: 75 percent of the world’s food supply relies on bees, birds and other pollinators, and they’re increasingly threatened. That is part of the conclusion of a two-year study conducted and released Friday by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). Tens of thousands […]
February 26: A newly published study uses IBEX data and simulations of the interstellar boundary to better describe space in our galactic neighborhood. Immediately after its 2008 launch, NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spotted a curiosity in a thin slice of space: More particles streamed in through a long, skinny swath in the sky […]
Kanchanpur / Feb 27: The conservationists of Nepal and India have agreed to control the smuggling of diclofenac, a drug which is believed to be extremely toxic to vultures. A meeting of the conservationists from Nepal and India held in Mahendranagar on Friday at the call of Bird Conservation Nepal made such agreement for their […]
Kathmandu / February 26: In yet another air fatality in less than a week, a plane of Air Kasthamandap crashed at Paragaun at Chilkhaya VDC-2 in Kalikot district today noon, killing pilot Dinesh Neupane and co-pilot Santosh Rana and injuring nine passengers. The plane (9NAJB) that took off for Jumla from Nepalgunj crashed in Kalikot, […]
Kathmandu / February 26: The Embassy of Japan and the Japan Foundation have organised an art exhibition entitled ‘Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan’ at the Nepal Art Council today to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Nepal and Japan. This year marks the anniversary. […]
Kathmandu / February 26: The government has launched a vaccination campaign against cervical cancer. The drive was set in motion from Friday form Kaski and Chitwan districts, according to Child Health Division’s Immunisation Section Chief Mukunda Gautam. Some 15,000 girls will be jabbed against the cancer of cervix in two phases. The vaccination drive has […]
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