Pokhara / April 1: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Federal Affairs and Local Development Kamal Thapa has said that the local poll will not be postponed under any pretext. He added that there was no reason to doubt over it as preparation for the same was going on with full steam. Speaking at a […]
Bhaktapur / April 1: Minister for Agriculture Gauri Shankar Chaudhary said that the government was preparing to bring a new budget ensuring the agro sector’s independency. While inaugurating a two-day Agro expo organized by the District Agro Cooperatives Association here today, Minister Chaudhary shared that the government was working to uplift and strengthen the agro […]
Gorkha / April 1: The construction of the Gumda-Machakhola section of the road leading Barpak to Tibet is to begin soon. The opening of the track of the road had been delayed after the locals of Yamgaon and Lamsibot in Dharche municipality disagreed over the route of the road, with people expression apprehension of the […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 01: Kathmandu Triennale (KT) 2017, a rebranded iteration of Kathmandu International Art Festival that was held in 2009 and 2012, has kicked off in Kathmandu under the theme of ‘My City, My Studio/My City, My life’. Organized by Siddhartha Arts Foundation, around 70 artists from about 25 countries have presented their views […]
Kathmandu / Apr. 01: Nepathya, a popular folk-rock band of Nepal, is celebrating the next one year (2017 April-2018 April) as the band’s silver jubilee year with the theme ‘Celebrating 25 years of Nepathya’. The band will be stepping into its 25th year on April 1. Nepathya has planned several activities including periodic releases of […]
Chitwan / Mar 31: Chitwan-based Nilkantha Poudel Memorial Academy, a literary association, honoured four literary figures amid a function held in the Academy’s premises on Wednesday. The event was organised to mark Poudel’s centennial. The awardees were felicitated in honour of their contributions to Nepali literature and linguisitics. Honoured at the event were litterateurs Bhupin, […]
Mumbai / Mar 31: A Bollywood film hitting Indian cinemas on Friday tells the inspirational story of a tribal girl from rural India who became the youngest woman to summit Mount Everest. Poorna Malavath was 13 years and 11 months old when she planted India’s tricolour flag on the top of the world’s highest mountain […]
Apr. 01: A sharp rise in US pedestrian deaths has been partly blamed on people using their smartphones while driving or crossing the road. The US Governors Highway Safety Association estimates that there were 6,000 pedestrian deaths in 2016, the highest number in more than 20 years. In the last six years, fatalities have grown […]
Kaya Yurieff / Apr. 01: Snap (SNAP), the parent company of the popular disappearing photo app, is rolling out the feature in select U.S. cities on Friday. The company didn’t say which cities it will be available in. Stories, the 24-hour photo and video posts shared by users, first launched in the app in October […]
Apr. 01: One of the biggest names in machine learning research has high hopes for the Vector Institute, Toronto’s new artificial intelligence research hub. Geoffrey Hinton, considered one of the fathers of a popular branch of machine learning research called deep learning, is the institute’s chief scientific adviser. He doesn’t have any decision-making power — […]
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