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NEWS & SOCIETY
Kanchan Timilsina’s death: a portrayal of society
Kanchan Timilsina, a boy from a village in Kalika municipality, has committed suicide by poison on Sunday. The cause of death is seen to be separation from his “wife”. Kanchan was married to Anisha Kumal. After a run-away marriage, this couple was separated just two days later. The girl side of the family had allegedly filed a case against the…
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Perseverance rover begins its exploration of Mars
It’s two weeks now since the one-ton robot, also known as Perseverance, made its dramatic descent to the Red Planet. Engineers have spent the time commissioning the vehicle and its many complex systems, including its instruments and robotic arm. The footage that Perseverance sends is used to know about the layout of the Mars. This project by NASA has the whole…
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NEWS & SOCIETY
Electricity Reach Across Rapti River After 30 Years
Until a few years ago, the areas across the Rapti River were considered as the most backward and undeveloped regions in Banke district. However, the area is now getting a facelift thanks to various development works being carried out there of late. Raptisonari and Narainapur Rural Municipalities in Banke Constituency No. 1 have become more accessible in the last three…
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
COVAX, COVID vaccine, not going to be enough in the first phase
Now that the first phase of COVID vaccines have been provided to Nepalese people, Nepal is gearing up for the second dosage. But, World Health Organization has informed Nepali officials that it will only provide 13 percent of the vaccine doses it had earlier forecasted to provide Nepal through its COVAX facility in the first phase of the program. The…
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MUSIC
“Love Story”, an icon of a song by Taylor swift, is back on charts
“Love Story (Taylor’s Version)” debuted at No. 1 on this week’s Hot Country Songs chart, according to Billboard. Love story was an iconic song that Swift has now remade, which has again gone to the top of the charts. The song is shockingly Swift’s first No. 1 debut on that chart. It is also her 8th career No. 1 on…
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Elon Musk co-authored a COVID-19 antibody study of SpaceX workers
Since undermining the Covid-19 and saying that you would rather die from car crash than Covid-19, More that 4,300 SpaceX employees volunteered to be part of a COVID-19 antibody study co-authored by CEO Elon Musk in 2020. SpaceX employees were asked by email in April 2020 to be a part of the study — right around the time that Musk…
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NEWS & SOCIETY
Russia detects first case of bird flu in humans
Officials said seven workers at a poultry plant in the south of the country had been infected following an outbreak there in December. “All seven people… are now feeling well,” said the head of Russia’s consumer health watchdog, Anna Popova. She said that adequate measures had been quickly taken to stop the spread of infection. She praised “the important scientific…
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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
NASA lands its Perseverance rover on Mars today
The six-wheeled Perseverance rover has reached the surface of mars, indicating the end of its seven-month journey from Earth to plunge into the atmosphere of Mars. It has put itself down safely on the Red Planet – a task that has befuddled so many spacecraft before it. Key timings for Perseverance’s landing Contact with atmosphere: 20:48 GMT Parachute deployed: 20:52 GMT Powered…
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NEWS & SOCIETY
Bhagrathi Bhatta’s rape and murder case now has a suspect
Police has made an arrest to the suspect of Bhagrathi Bhatta’s rape and murder case. “Even though the evidence shows he is the culprit, since he has not owed up, we cannot reveal who he is yet.”, said the police. There are many injuries seen in the body of the man but he claims it is due to cutting trees.…
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NEWS & SOCIETY
USA has a whole new strain of Coronavirus
Since the newer strain of Coronavirus has been known from UK in last few months, the world has come to a standstill as to whether the new strain is more deadly. Now, as the US has contracted the new strain of Coronavirus, they’ve come up with a better shorthand for referring to them. They’ve named them after birds. “In late…
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