- Thursday, 2 October 2025
The Rising Nepal
Hawa Sangai released
Hawa Sangai, a music video presented by Shiva Ram Thapaliya, was released on Friday from OSR Digital. Singers Sangam Thapaliya and Asmita Adhikaari have lent their voice to the song Hawa Sangai. Popular model Karishma Dhakal and Shuraj Thapaliya are featured in the music video. The love story song has the lyrics by Tara Adhikari while Kamal Rai directed the song. Its music is composed by Kishor Bishokarma.
Poll security likely to hamper regular crime investigations
The regular crime investigation task of Nepal Police is likely to get affected following the deployment of over 62,000 forces during the local level elections to be held on May 13. Nepal Police Headquarters has said that there will be just 10 per cent of the total manpower for the protection of their offices and units across the country while deploying the manpower for the security of the elections. “Over 90 per cent forces will be in the field for the election security purpose,” Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) and spokesperson for the Police Headquarters Bishnu Kumar KC, said.
Political Empowerment Of Citizens
Self-awakening, realising inner awareness is the basis of people’s empowerment. It nourishes one’s own belief, desire, interest, emotion and opinion and motivates to engage in legislative and practical affairs. The notion of "political" implies the public and thus participation in its activities is a route to their empowerment. Political power is a public trust. It flourishes with the public interests it serves. It is built on the process of education, election, public opinion and the system of rule of law. Social virtues of human nature spur the art of association with others and pull off positive effects on the multi-dimensionality of empowerment. Rational people are ethically responsible for their actions in matters of laws, rights and duties and show maturity in decision for self-improvement and worthy action for others.
Asian elephant meet adopts declaration
The 3rd Asian Elephant Range States meeting of government representatives from 13 Asian countries concluded with a declaration of their common goal to conserve the Asian Elephant within its range states. The meeting which started on April 27 concluded on Friday after announcing “Declaration for Asian Elephant Conservation”. All the range states agreed on recognising the Asian Elephant, a seriously endangered species and one of the most iconic animals.
Nepal-India joint border patrol starts for local election security
A joint security patrol has begun in the Dashgaja area of the Nepal-India border in Banke in view of the local level election in Nepal. At other times, security personnel from both Nepal and India have been conducting patrolling separately, but during the local election, the security forces from both the countries have agreed to conduct joint patrol to prevent any illegal activities.
Five held for aiding gold smuggling
The Metropolitan Police Airport Security Office (MPASO) Thursday arrested five individuals, including three cleaning staffers, for ‘aiding’ the smuggling of 2.332 kg gold from the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA). According to the MPASO, seizure of the gold from two cleaning staffers led to the arrests of three others. The gold was seized from 28-year-old Bhim Kumar Mabo of Panchthar district and 27-year-old Suman Tamang of Nuwakot district during the mandatory security check before leaving through the iron gate of the TIA. Mabo and Tamang are cleaning staffers for Sungava Suppliers and Sarsafai Pvt. Ltd. at the TIA.
PM stresses economic partnership with US
Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that Nepal looks forward to more high level engagements and economic partnership with the United States of America in the days to come. In his Twitter post @SherBDeuba, the Prime Minister said, “We look forward to more high-level engagements and economic partnership in the days to come.” Prime Minister Deuba has posted the statement on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the establishment diplomatic relations between Nepal and USA on Friday.
Ploughman Bhul deputy mayor candidate for Dasharathchand
Rajuram Bhul had once reached Kathmandu from Baitadi during the Haliya Mukti Movement in 2008 and picketed Singhadurbar carrying a plough. The same ploughman is now a candidate for a deputy mayor in Dasharathchand Municipality, Baitadi. Bhul was also active in the People's Movement and has been continuing his social works and protests for Haliyas, the agricultural bonded labourers who work on others’ land, for the past 25 years.
‘Unscheduled load shedding wreaking havoc on industries’
When the price of fuel was Rs. 70-80 per litre, the industrialists of Morang-Sunsari Industrial Corridor used to operate the industry by running generators. They would call the workers and run the industry while waiting for the electricity to come according the schedule of load shedding at that time. However, industries in Sunsari-Morang Industrial Corridor are close to shutting down due to unscheduled load shedding.
Using Human Energy To Heat Buildings
In the cult film The Matrix, unwitting humans’ body heat was siphoned off by machines to use as their energy source. Although that might not be the ideal situation to find ourselves in, the basis of the idea – using the warmth we generate to heat our buildings – could help fight climate change by cutting fossil fuel use. Let’s look at the science. The average human body emits about 100 watts of heat at rest. When exercising, that heat can easily exceed 1,000 watts: energy that could boil one litre of water in six minutes. For comparison, a standard (3 kW) home kettle takes more than two minutes to heat a litre of water.
Machhindranaths Of The Valley
Patan’s famous Rato Machhindranath (Padmapani Lokeshwor) Jatra is set to begin next week. The idol will be placed on its wooden chariot at Pulchowk on Sunday and the pulling of that chariot will begin on Wednesday. Provided the COVID-19 pandemic does not take a sudden and drastic turn for the worse, this year, the Jatra will be held in its unabridged form after a break of two years. A month earlier, in Kathmandu, another chariot festival for the Seto Machhindranath (Aryawalokiteshwor) was held amid much fanfare.
Valley museums start to see visitors
The museums of the Kathmandu Valley are finally seeing internal and external tourists. The museums, which closed intermittently for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, reopened last year after daily COVID-19 infections started declining in the country. However, in the beginning, they struggled to get visitors as foreigners had not yet arrived in satisfactory numbers. That has changed though in the last two months. The Hanumandhoka Durbar Museum, located in the UNESCO-listed World Heritage Site of Hanumandhoka Durbar Square, gets around 500 daily visitors these days, shared Sandeep Khanal, executive director of the museum’s development committee. “That number grows during public holidays,” he said.
Noted actors, singers contesting local polls
A few artistes from the Nepali entertainment industry are also contesting the upcoming local level elections. They have registered their candidacies for various positions. Some of them are party candidates and others independent candidates. Two of the 56 mayoral candidates filing their nominations in the Kathmandu Metropolitan City are celebrities while a candidate for the position of deputy mayor is a former beauty queen. There are other artistes who have registered their nominations for the post of mayor, deputy mayor, ward chairs and ward members in different local levels. Popular rapper Balen Shah has registered his nomination for the post of mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC). He is contesting as an independent candidate.
Wildlife Farming Possibilities And Challenges
Wildlife farming is a debatable issue. Nepal has recently legalised and opened wildlife farming. The Nepali government has endorsed the 5th amendment to the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act and Rules to legalise it. There are few benefits and many negative consequences of wildlife farming.
Patan locals excited about Rato Machhindranath Jatra
With the ceremony to place the idol of Rato Machhindranath on its wooden carriage under construction at Pulchowk, Lalitpur, scheduled for May 1, the nation’s longest chariot festival is set to begin next week. Provided the situation with the COVID-19 pandemic does not aggravate, this will be the first time in two years the festival popularly known as Rato Machhindranath Jatra will be held on full scale, as per the community organisations involved in the chariot fiesta.
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