Who said playing games is waste of time?

Throughout the last twenty or thirty years, parents around the world have been putting limitations on the amount of time their children spend playing games. Many a times, p...

Nepal clinches 139th position in environment index

KATHMANDU: Nepal has been ranked 139th in the Environmental Performance Index 2014, which assessed 178 countries across the world.

The EPI assesses nine parameters,...

Taste of sting

I vividly remember my first encounter with bichhu ghas, literally scorpion grass. My botany teacher had introduced me to the Himalayan giant nettle, known as Girardinia div...

True Review: C.I.D

CID FLY KITES, TOO

Last Friday, channel surfing around 10 pm, I stopped on Sony and CID. The remote wouldn?t budge. Kites crowded the skies, Daya was chasing some...

Kenya to generate over half of its electricity through solar power by 2016

Government invests $1.2bn jointly with private companies to build solar power plants across the country

Masinga hydroelectric power plant. Kenya gets most of its po...

National rural jobs scheme loses steam in Karnataka, Rajasthan

Rajasthan and Karnataka, which used to be stand-out performers of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA)’s flagship scheme, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employmen...

Pakistan worst affected by climate change

KARACHI: Agriculture is extremely vulnerable to climate change globally and in Pakistan, which is the one of the worst hit countries of climate change, agriculture is badly...

National Urban Health Mission launched

The ambitious National Urban Health Mission (NUHM), aimed at providing adequate and efficient urban public health delivery system for the urban poor, was launched here toda...

Karun Chandhok to cycle 500km for charity

Indian racing driver Karun Chandhok began his 500km charity cycle rideSunday morning at the Pallikaranai Government School here.

The “KC500 presented by Montr...