Durga Karki's 'Kumari Prashnaharu' launched

KATHMANDU: Kumari Prashnaharu, the debut book of author Durga Karki, has been launched today. The book, an anthology, is a collection of thirteen short stories written in the style of social realism. Publication Nepalaya made the book public on...

Art & Culture 21 Feb, 2020

Former minister Mahat�s new book launched

Kathmandu, December 11 Former finance minister and Nepali Congress leader Ram Sharan Mahat launched his new book titled ‘Trails, Tremors and Hope: The Political Economy of Contemporary Nepal’ amidst a programme in Kathmandu...

Horoscopes 12 Dec, 2019

Muna Chaudhary's 'Dulari' launched, discussed

KATHMANDU: Author Muna Chaudhary recently launched her novel 'Dulari'. In the book launch interaction held with veteran writers, sociologists and mediapersons, in Kathmandu, on Saturday, litterateur and writer Nayanraj Pandey said the novel 'Dulari'...

Art & Culture 09 Dec, 2019

Facebook launches a news section

Over the course of its 15 year history, Facebook has variously ignored news organisations while eating their advertising revenue, courted them for video projects it subsequently abandoned, and then largely cut their stories out of its...

Mobile & Apps 25 Oct, 2019

Nepalaya launches Tirtha Shrestha's 'Dharsaidharsa Ko Chakrabeu'

KATHMANDU: Poet Tirtha Shrestha's collection of poems 'Dharsaidharsa Ko Chakrabeu' has been launched amid a special programme at Paleti 'r' sala in Kathmandu, on Friday. The book launching event was unique as it was a fusion of both music and...

Art & Culture 29 Sep, 2019

PM Oli releases Professor KR Khambu's memoir

KATHMANDU: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli released his contemporary professor KR Khambu's memoir 'Chaya Ko Laskar' amid a special ceremony at the Prime Minister's residence in Baluwatar on Thursday. After releasing the book, PM Oli shared his past...

Art & Culture 26 Sep, 2019

Researchers studying Facebook's impact on democracy threaten to quit

SAN FRANCISCO: A group of philanthropies working with Facebook Inc to study the social network’s impact on democracy threatened on Tuesday to quit, saying the company had failed to make data available to researchers as pledged. The funders said in...

Mobile & Apps 28 Aug, 2019

MoFA to interact regularly with Nepali envoys: Gyawali

Kathmandu, July 9 Minister of Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali today said his ministry was creating an action room to hold regular briefing and interaction with the ambassadors of Nepal in various countries. Addressing a book launch programme,...

Horoscopes 10 Jul, 2019

Facebook launching app that pays users for data on app usage

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook on Tuesday launched an app that will pay users to share information with the social media giant about which apps they’re using. The company previously rolled out two similar apps that tracked what activities people did on...

Mobile & Apps 12 Jun, 2019

Facebook 'labels' posts by hand, posing privacy questions

Facebook has 200 labelling projects at any time Thousands of humans involved in labelling efforts Wipro project started in April 2018 Lawyers say program raises new privacy concerns HYDERABAD, INDIA/SAN FRANCISCO: Over the past year,...

Mobile & Apps 06 May, 2019

Facebook launches WhatsApp�Business�for iPhones

Facebook Inc on Thursday launched a business version of its WhatsApp messaging app for Apple Inc's iOS, more than a year after the service was rolled out for Android users. WhatsApp Business will be available for free downloads from the App...

Mobile & Apps 05 Apr, 2019

Onus on powerful countries to end violence: Gyawali

Kathmandu, December 10 Minister of Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali today said powerful countries should make genuine efforts to end violence in the world. He said the world could get rid of violence if powerful countries spent a fraction of...

Travel 11 Dec, 2018