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Europe visit of BRB and Nepalese Diaspora of Europe

Dec 102016

– Dr Binaya Shrestha, Switzerland

Nepalese political leaders have always demonstrated their affection for visiting developed countries in the west. The major political parties have established a wider Network of their party wings in these countries,mainly for party politics. The political parties of Nepal: Nepali Congress (NC), Communist Party of Nepal (UML), Communist party of Nepal (Maoist Centre)and other parties have established their sister organizations in the Nepalese diasporic communities. However, these sister organizations have failed to provide any major policy inputs to their mother parties till date. The political wrangling among these organizations have vividly reflected the existing political grudge and rifts of Nepal. If evaluated in terms of nature, function and efficiency, these organizations are just aforeign edition of identical sister organizationsof the political parties in Nepal.

The Nepalese diaspora retains a somewhat ambivalent attitude towards the motherland. They fiercely love their motherland and want strong emotional ties with prosperous Nepal. But they are exasperated by the inability of politicians, whereas they themselves are involved in petty politics of motherland.In social media,Nepalese diaspora is expressingtheir frustrations, disappointments and dissatisfactions at the current political situation in Nepal. Continue reading »

European Commission’s Action Plan to tackle travel document fraud

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Dec 102016

The European Commission has adopted an Action Plan setting out concrete measures to improve the security of travel documents on Thursday. The Action Plan provides clear recommendations for Member States to tackle the phenomenon of travel document fraud and outlines a comprehensive set of actions for the Commission to take. Travel document security is an important factor in the fight against terrorism and organised crime and contributes to improving border protection and migration management.

The Action Plan is targeted at travel documents issued by EU Member States to EU citizens and third-country nationals which are used for identification and border crossing.

In full respect of fundamental rights and data protection rules and division of competences between Member States and the Commission, the Action Plan outlines measures in four key areas: Continue reading »

Less than half of primary school pupils study a foreign language in Portugal, Belgium and Slovenia

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Sep 302016

All or nearly all pupils at primary level in 2014 attended foreign language classes in Cyprus, Luxembourg and Malta (all 100.0%), Croatia, Italy and Austria (all 99.9%), Spain (99.5%), as well as in France (99.0%) and Poland (97.7%),according to a study published on Friday by Eurostat on the occasion of the European Day of Languages, celebrated on September 26 of each year.

At EU level, this share stood at 83.7%. In some Member States, young pupils were studying two or more foreign languages, particularly in Luxembourg (83.5%), followed at a distance by Estonia (32.6%) and Greece (28.7%). In contrast, less than half of primary school pupils were studying a foreign language in 2014 in Portugal (36.2%), Belgium (37.0%) and Slovenia (48.4%).

English is the most common foreign language studied at primary level in every EU Member State, except Belgium and Luxembourg, both multilingual countries. The second most common foreign language gives a more varied picture. German, which is the most learnt foreign language in Luxembourg, was the second main foreign language studied by primary school pupils in eight other Member States, with the highest shares of learners recorded in Hungary (20.1%) and Croatia (20.0%). Continue reading »

Exam Blues

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Sep 272016

My wife has been studying like crazy for the past few weeks. She is a masters degree student at TU. Whenever she has to prepare for her exams, she has many major panic attacks. Yes, there are folks like her who suffer from ailments during exam time while people like me go to the exam center fully expecting to ace the exam even though deep inside we know that we have not even covered half the textbook.

Yes, you can call me an optimist. My wife worries more about how she might fail rather than just doing her best no matter what. I’m the kind of person who buys the door prize tickets at a party and expects to win free air tickets to Dubai for two. I will still have high hopes of bagging the main prize until the announcer walks up the stage. But after that, I won’t be the lucky winner but will still go home happy dreaming about what could have been had I won the prize.

I tell my wife not to worry and just study and to do her best. But my wife doesn’t listen to me. Well, she never listens to me. I think she thinks that it is a wife’s job to act like you are listening to your husband but then you do your own thing. But if I don’t listen to her and do what she tells me to do in less than sixty seconds, then she is on fire and you know that forest fire will take more than a day or two to be extinguished. Continue reading »

Peeing Kids of Brussels

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Sep 242016

Some countries landmark monuments give us a picture about that county. Who could imagine France without the Eiffel Tower coming to mind, or Egypt without the pyramids? Statue of Liberty in New York and Great wall of China give us an impression even we are talking about something else about these places. Belgium however has amusing sort of national landmark.

Well, There is Atomium in Brussels. But Manneken Pis is much more well-known and mentioned when we talk about Belgium. Belgium’s most famous “monument” is a little boy’s pissing fountain. Usually visitors have high expectation over Brussel’s symbol, Manneken Pis. When visit it turns out to be a good laugh. Continue reading »

Reviving Sanskrit

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Sep 162016

Sanskrit may have long been considered a dead language, but of late, there is undeniably more interest around the matter. Not only do we have international writers debating over the language, some private schools in the capital are reintroducing Sanskrit classes to their syllabuses, reports republica daily. So The Week caught up with some individuals involved in various aspects of teaching, writing and publishing in Sanskrit to find out what the current situation is like. They share their experiences and opinions on the state of the Nepali public’s interest in the language.

Of late there has been a bit of resurgence in the popularity of Sanskrit. There are more Nepalis in their late 20s and 30s who come around to explore the section. This wasn’t the case a decade ago. Continue reading »

Middle-Himalaya drop after Nepal quake

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May 102015

The height of the Himalayas has dropped by around one metre as a result of the devastating Nepal earthquake.
But they add that the drop will roughly be balanced by slow uplift due to tectonic activity. And they have yet to analyse satellite images of the region in which the most famous Himalayan peak – Everest – is located.

The satellite images they have analysed so far have focused on central Nepal, which was the hardest hit by the quake. Everest is to the east of this main shaking zone.
Nepalese Authorities say they are yet to assess the impacts of the earthquake on the Himalayas as they are still occupied with rescue and rehabilitation after the devastating earthquake.

Most Famous Paintings of all Time

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Jan 212015

The most expensive paintings are not necessarily the most famous paintings. The most famous ones are generally owned by museums, which very rarely sell them, and as such, they are quite literally priceless. An overview of the most famous paintings of all time:

1, Mona Lisa-

It’s the masterpiece of all masterpieces, the most famous, most discussed and most enigmatic of all paintings.Thus, it has been acclaimed as “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world”. It’s the portrait of a woman, said to be named Lisa Gherardini, painted by Leonardo da Vinci between 1503 and 1506. It’s been on permanent display in Paris since 1797, except for a period of two years when it was stolen in 1911 before returning to the Louvre Museum in 1913. About six million people see the painting each year. Continue reading »

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