MOVIE REVIEW: A visionless third eye Kathmandu:Teesri Aankh (Thriller)Cast: Sunny Deol, Amisha Patel, and Neha DhupiaDirection: Harry BawezaShowing at Kumari CinemaDid you call it the turn of the century techno-thriller? You bet it’s a mythological drama with the quintessential Arjun... Travel Abroad 04 Mar, 2006
MIDWAY: All-time craze Perhaps the most novel and popular garment of this century is the T-shirt. This is because it is an informal wear and is very comfortable. Both men and women of all shapes and sizes wear it. The garment is named after the alphabet “T” because of... 04 Jan, 2006
Once-over Maoists free tankers Banke: Maoists today released nine oil tankers, which they had seized four days ago, in the presence of the human rights activists in Baijapur of Banke district. Maoists’ Banke special district in charge Anu handed over the... Travel 03 Jan, 2006
PEOPLESPEAK: Vote for Liquor Law The Child Act of 1992, Provision 16, prohibits selling of alcohol, drugs and other illegal substances to children: Hotel Regulation and Sale Distribution of Alcohol Act, 2023, section 7, has a provision prohibiting selling and serving of alcohol to... Travel Abroad 19 Nov, 2005
Dengue outbreak plagues Singapore Singapore, September 11: Minister calls for a ‘no-compromise’ campaign to check disease. A dengue fever outbreak has plunged Singapore into its worst health crisis since the 2003 SARS epidemic, forcing officials to speed up a campaign against the... Women 09 Nov, 2005
Govt pins hope on malaria control drive Renu Kshetry Kathmandu, February 10: With concentration on 12 high risk districts since last year, the government has pinned all hopes on achieving the goal of decreasing morbidity rate due to malaria by half by 2010. “Though the government has... Travel 02 Nov, 2005
Dr Compounders Kathmandu:The sheer ratio of people to doctors has always been such that an intimediary first-aid giver has been needed. The British Empire invented the ‘compounder’, a person who literally made medicines in vast glass vats and dispensed them to... Travel Abroad 24 Oct, 2005
Delhi reports 23 new dengue cases New Delhi, October 15:Dengue fever seems to be spreading in the Indian capital with 23 new cases reported till Saturday, taking the total number of affected people to 339, municipal authorities said. Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) officials said... Women 15 Oct, 2005
Encephalitis claims 15 more in India Lucknow, October 9:Japanese encephalitis claimed 15 more lives in northern India, as a health official today expressed surprise that the recent outbreak, which had appeared to be fading, was spreading again.The outbreak has killed 1,038 people, mostly... Women 10 Oct, 2005
Asia: Dengue worse threat than bird flu Marwaan Macan-Markar For most of his adult life, Dr. Suthee Yoksan has toiled in the hope of defeating the mosquito that spreads dengue fever in South-east Asia. “It is now 25 years,” says the 55-year-old Thai medical researcher of a project he has... 10 Oct, 2005
BIZ BRIEFS S&P to rate unitsTOKYO: International credit ratings service Standard & Poor’s (S&P) will begin rating Japan’s small and midsize businesses in late October. S&P’s Ratings Services’ decision came as demands for smaller business ratings increased... 09 Oct, 2005
Japanese encephalitis toll in India crosses 1,000 Lucknow, October 7:The death toll from Japanese encephalitis in northern India has crossed the 1,000 mark, making it the most fatal outbreak of the illness in nearly two decades, an official said today. Nearly all the dead were children. Some 300 more... Women 07 Oct, 2005
