STAY FIT : Importance of Fluoride

Dr Neil PandeKathmandu:We have been hearing about fluoride toothpaste for quite sometime now — sometimes through advertisements claiming their products with fluoride, sometimes through write-ups and most of the times from our own dentists...

Travel Abroad 29 Mar, 2004

Proteins for healthy living

Sushil DhitalKathmandu:Jassi, the favourite protagonist of the daily soap ‘Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahi’, seems to take a lot of protein, which has made her the brightest head in the office. So when it comes to drinking a tall glass of milk or forcing...

Travel Abroad 22 Mar, 2004

Film on canvas

Kathmandu: Nabin Subba’s award-winning movie ‘Numafung’ won many hearts. It painted the lives of Limbu women with placid subjectivity. Now 20 Nepali artists have together to paint the impression that the movie left on them. These paintings hang...

Travel Abroad 20 Mar, 2004

Demand for copper products dips

Himalayan News ServiceNarayangadh, March 17:Copper entrepreneurs are worried by the fall in demand for copper products particularly, pots made of copper. Bhim Bahadur Bishwakarma 45, is uncertain about his future since copper pots are not being sold in...

17 Mar, 2004

Shopping for jazz is fruitful

Himalayan News ServiceKathmandu:The Kathmandu Jazz Festival moved to Gokarna Resort as Jazz Bazaar on March 12. The event is organised by Upstairs Ideas with The Himalayan Times.Indeed many Jazz lovers and listeners showed up at the bazaar. The show...

Travel Abroad 14 Mar, 2004

How jazz works

Himalayan News ServiceKathmandu, March 12:The first Jazzmandu 2004 workshop was held at The Elites’ Co-ed School, Nag Pokhari today. The Norwegian jazz band Urban Connection led the workshop. Students, musicians and enthusiasts attended the...

Travel Abroad 13 Mar, 2004

Mission Saturn

Kedar P Badu Pokhara: The Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn is the most ambitious space exploration mission ever. It is testing the limits of science and technology by going where no spacecraft has ever gone before. A robot explorer called Cassini is...

Travel Abroad 06 Mar, 2004

MIDWAY: Break the cocoon

Shristi KatwalI was one of the privileged children. When I look back at my early days, I have no regrets at being a girl. My childhood was explicitly filled with joys. With the gradual transition to adolescence came the flurry of dos and don’ts....

02 Mar, 2004

The Bolton dream

Michael Bolton was born Michael Bolotin on February 26, 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut, to George and Helen Bolotin. He began his career in RCA Records when he was 22 and recorded his first self-entitled album ‘Michael Bolotin’ in 1975. His second...

Travel Abroad 29 Feb, 2004

Healthy heart

Cardiovascular diseases are an emerging health problem in much of South Asia. One to two per 1,000 children in Nepal suffer from rheumatic heart disease, while some five per cent of adult population in Kathmandu suffer from coronary artery disease....

27 Feb, 2004

Visiting history

Dr P Ravi ShankarPokharaMy very good friend, Sheik Akbar Hussain is a dynamic young man. He is hard to beat when it comes to organising tours and outings. It was the beginning of March and the fog that had cloaked North India for the better part of...

Travel Abroad 13 Feb, 2004

Minute wonders

Dr P Ravi ShankarPokharaThe fight against disease has been waged from the dawn of human civilisation. Protozoa, bacteria, fungi, viruses and prions constantly attack us and test our defence mechanisms. We have been refining our weapons in the fight...

Travel Abroad 27 Jan, 2004