According to a report from the Institute of International Education (IIE), France ranks in the top host European countries for English-taught Master's programmes. French universities use English in lectures and seminars particularly for Masters’ courses on subjects such as sciences, technology, economics and business - where a kind of “global English” has become the standard. This makes France an excellent destination to study abroad and benefit from courses taught in English.
There are more than 450 English-language programmes at either undergraduate or Master’s level. A wide range of programmes held in French, make an excellent opportunity for international students to fit in and expand their communication skills. Students looking to study abroad in France may benefit from an increasing number of bilingual study programmes (part French, part English courses), designated to help foreign students learn French with minimum effort.
Students coming from countries where French is the official language, or one of the official languages, are exempt from proving their French proficiency.
How the overall weight of taxes in Canada compares with that in other countries is a question that frequently arises in tax policy discussions. Aggregate tax burdens—that is, taxes of all sorts as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP)—vary considerably from country to country. (GDP may be defined as the sum of compensation paid to labour and investment income paid to resident and non-resident owners of capital.) In general, countries with highly developed social support services have high ratios of taxes to GDP, because they must levy taxes to pay for these services. Poor and developing countries have low ratios, since average incomes are low and administrative systems are underdeveloped, making it difficult to raise substantial tax revenue. However, some of the variation in tax burdens among countries also reflects national choices. The simple ratio of taxes to GDP does not tell the whole story, and does not necessarily reveal which country has high tax burdens. One country may choose to pay for the health, welfare, and pension costs for its citizens through state programs and to impose taxes to cover the costs. Another country may ask citizens to pay for most of these costs themselves and have lower tax rates as a consequence. There are differences in these approaches: the citizens of the second country have far more flexibility in “purchasing” social benefits, and the distribution of the burden of these costs by income level probably differs substantially. However, the net difference in tax burdens (that is, tax as a percentage of GDP) for the two countries does not recognize the differences in state-provided benefits.
The Self-financing Post-secondary Education Fund provides scholarships to outstanding local and non-local students pursuing full-time locally-accredited self-financing sub-degree or bachelor’s degree programmes. The scholarship is HK$80,000 (approximately US$10,300) per year for non-local recipients of Outstanding Performance Scholarship.
Diabetes is a very common disease in Western society. With more people becoming over weight, diabetes and heart disease are often quick to follow. Bad dieting and food intake are common causes of diabetes, convenience food and busy schedules make it too easy for people to fall into a trap of lazy and bad habits. By implementing a more knowledgeable stance to your nutritional intake, you will be able to remain healthy and greatly reduce the risk of diabetes. Here are 11 foods that can help to combat diabetes.
This exotic fruit has many reasons that make it a great food for combating diabetes. A study conducted by I-Shou University of Taiwan revealed that consuming guava without the skin can reduce sugar absorption in the blood stream. Guava is also high in vitamin C which can reduce the damage of cells linked with diabetes.
Study in the UK offers you a long history of teaching the world’s greatest leaders, thinkers and artists. You can choose from traditional UK universities that have taught for hundreds of years, or modern, state-of-the-art universities and colleges throughout England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
Courses in London are always popular – living in one of the world’s most exciting and dynamic cities is a life-changing adventure. It’s a great place to learn English in the UK, or study an undergraduate or Masters Degree.
A UK education doesn’t have to be expensive either. The cost of living outside of London is much more affordable. UK degrees can be completed in three years with honours (saving a year of tuition compared with many other international degrees). Plus, students in the UK have access to free medical care through the NHS if they are studying for more than six months.
India is Claiming and keep saying that Gautam Buddha was born in ... and now they are building another Lumbini ,Kapilavastu in india.
Indian efforts to substantiate the birth of Lord Buddha in India by constructing similar duplicate Lumbini in Aligadhawa of Uttar Pradesh have gone in vain. The recent discovery of the contemporary town of Buddha’s time in Tilaurakot of Kapilbasto by a research team of UK Durham University has thrown cold water on India’s ploy to claim the Light of Asia as belonging to India.The Archaeologists led by Professor Robin Coningham have come up with the findings that there lay remnants of palace, four-land road, city, orchard among others under the earth in the present birthplace of Gautam Buddha. Duplicate Lumbini site being constructed by India in Aligadhawa, Uttar Pradesh
prison island, which lies a couple of miles off the coast in the Oslo fjord, 46 miles south-east of Norway’s capital, comes shortly after I board the prison ferry. I’m taken aback slightly when the ferry operative who welcomed me aboard just minutes earlier, and with whom I’m exchanging small talk about the weather, suddenly reveals he is a serving prisoner -- doing 14 years for drug smuggling. He notes my surprise, smiles, and takes off a thick glove before offering me his hand. "I’m Petter," he says. Before he transferred to Bastoy, Petter was in a high-security prison for nearly eight years. "Here, they give us trust and responsibility," he says. "They treat us like grownups." I haven’t come here particularly to draw comparisons, but it’s impossible not to consider how politicians and the popular media would react to a similar scenario in Britain. -
Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), the state-owned power utility, is reducing loadshedding hours to 77 hours per week from Tuesday, considering the board examinations of Grade 10, which is beginning on March 31. With this reduction in loadshedding hours, the country will face power cuts for around 11 hours per day on average, according to Bhuwan Kumar Chhetri, chief of Load Dispatch Centre at NEA. At present, the country goes without electricity for up to 84 hours per week, or 12 hours per day on average.
Nepal currently generates around 762 megawatts of hydroelectricity, whereas peak demand, this year, stood at over 1,300 MW. Even the power generation capacity of normal times dips during winter because most of the hydro projects are built under run-of-the-river model. Run-of-the-river hydro projects generate electricity whenever there is water in the river. So, as soon as water level dips, electricity production from these projects falls. To meet the deficit, the country is currently importing around 315 MW of electricity from India.
Set up in 1636, Harvard University was the first relationship of higher modifying in the U.S. Its history, impact and riches hasn't ceased it from endeavoring particular things with new instructive stages, for occurrence, the MOOC edx, served to develop with close-by MIT. Harvard's work compel and graduated class have won 47 Nobel Prizes and the school beginning late secured past power manager of The New York Times, Jill Abramson, to show school classes. The school's quick overview of unprecedented adequately show people and graduated class is wide and merges Microsoft originator Bill Gates, Facebook related supporter Mark Zuckerberg, performing expert Natalie Portman, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, NBA star Jeremy Lin and authority Doris Kearns Goodwin.
The present president of the school is FORBES' No. 33 Power Woman Drew Gilpin Faust. Harvard University battles in NCAA Division I amusements and its social affairs are known as the Crimson. Harvard b-ball has twisted up well known for extraordinary events: In the previous two NCAA competitions, Harvard has aggravated No. 12 seed Cincinnati and No. 14 seed New Mexico.
Families with understudies on recompense pay a regular of $11,500 yearly around the expense of a Harvard rule. More than 65% of Harvard College understudies get permitted help, and the conventional affirmation not long from $46,000.
The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) is a college in Sydney, Australia. The college was established in its present structure in 1988, in spite of the fact that its causes follow back to the 1870s. It is a piece of the Australian Technology Network of colleges. It was positioned sixth in Australia in the CWTS Leiden Ranking 2014 and in the 401st–500th section and 17th–19th in Australia in the 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities. The University of Technology, Sydney is a fascinating blend of compositional styles mirroring the distinctive periods in which the structures and grounds were built and redesigned. The celebrated "Tower" building is a sample of brutalist structural planning with square and piece cement outlines. Constructed after huge understudy challenges in U.S. schools like Berkeley and Kent State University, the building was intended to get rid of vast, open air territories and subsequently utmost understudies' capacity to stage extensive challenges. The Haymarket grounds (assembling 5) join a cutting edge inner part with the staying outside of the old markets building, and the as of late finished structures 4 and 6 are outlined with a component of innovative construction modelling.
Basanti Maharjan, March 28, 2016 (Dcnepal) – In the video we can see Britain Prince Harry talking to one of the boy in Lalitpur, Patan. Britain Prince had visited Nepal for a five days official visit.
On the second day of the visit of Britain Prince Harry went to visit Patan area to see and know the conditions of the victims of the devastating earthquake that occurred on 25th April, 2015. There, Prince Harry visited every place where earthquake has destroyed, the several houses, the cultural heritages sites and many more and Prince Harry even visited at the temporary tents where the residents of Patan are staying nowadays after being homeless in earthquake.
In the video we can see Prince Harry talking to a young boy who is of 15 years old. But the teenager boy named as Purshottam has been made as a manager of the temporary settlements of the quake victims of Patan as he knows to speak English and would be easy to do conversation with Prince Harry.
It is the first visit of Britain Prince Harry in Nepal. As it was the first time, Prince Harry is enjoying his visit and was very connected with the people. Prince Harry went to the tents of the quake victims as well. Before entering to the tent of quake victims he took his shoes out before the tent and then he went inside as other members of the tent have taken out their shoes out.
The members of the tent were saying it was fine to come inside along with shoes but Prince Harry took his shoes out as they too had done so. Around 200 people are still living in Camps of the outskirts of the Kathmandu. In the camp 85 families are sharing just 55 tents.
Thamel is a commercial neighborhood in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Thamel has been the center of the tourist industry in Kathmandu for over four decades, starting from the hippie days when many artists came to Nepal and spent weeks in Thamel.Thamel is distinguished by its narrow alleys crowded with various shops and vendors. Commonly sold goods include food, fresh
vegetables/fruits, pastries, trekking gear, walking gear, music, DVDs, handicrafts, souvenirs, woolens, clothes. Travel agencies, small grocery stores, budget hotels and restaurants also line the streets. Cars, cycles rickshaws, two-wheelers and taxis ply these narrow streets alongside hundreds of pedestrians.
There are many restaurants in Thamel that serve traditional and continental cuisine, although prices are significantly higher than in non-tourist areas. Thamel also acts as the pre-base camp for mountaineers. It boasts a wide range of mountaineering gear shops, foreign money exchange booths, mobile phone shops, pubs, clubs, and nightlife along with the numerous travel agents and guest houses. Thamel is home to a wide range of the Nepalese population, and serves both entertainment and employment purposes.
The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) is a college in Sydney, Australia. The college was established in its present structure in 1988, in spite of the fact that its causes follow back to the 1870s. It is a piece of the Australian Technology Network of colleges.
It was positioned sixth in Australia in the CWTS Leiden Ranking 2014 and in the 401st–500th section and 17th–19th in Australia in the 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities.
The University of Technology, Sydney is a fascinating blend of compositional styles mirroring the distinctive periods in which the structures and grounds were built and redesigned.
The celebrated "Tower" building is a sample of brutalist structural planning with square and piece cement outlines. Constructed after huge understudy challenges in U.S. schools like Berkeley and Kent State University, the building was intended to get rid of vast, open air territories and subsequently utmost understudies' capacity to stage extensive challenges. The Haymarket grounds (assembling 5) join a cutting edge inner part with the staying outside of the old markets building, and the as of late finished structures 4 and 6 are outlined with a component of innovative construction modelling.
The UTS Academic Board is the central report body to the UTS Council on scholarly matters.
The Academic Board is concerned with arrangement advancement as it identifies with the University's scholastic projects in training, grant and exploration, and group administration. It alludes to arrangement suggestions to Council and examines matters alluded to it by Council.
Scholarly Board assumes a key part in the UTS group in giving a discussion to the talk and civil argument of the scholastic bearings of the University and also the nature of its scholastic projects. The Board comprises of scholarly staff individuals and in addition understudy individuals chose for a general time of 1–2 years
The UTS Union is the association which runs a scope of on-grounds understudy administrations, including sustenance & drink outlets, social exercises, understudy social occasions, and is in charge of directing UTS clubs & social orders, games clubs and other recreational exercises. The UTS exercise center has as of late been redesigned. The City Campus is home to two authorized bars, 'The Underground' and 'The Loft'.
UTS has its own particular group radio station on grounds, 2SER FM. The studio is placed on Level 26 of the UTS Tower and telecasts to the whole Sydney district. The station is mutually possessed by UTS and Macquarie University, with a second studio at Macquarie University. UTS Journalism understudies help create the station's news and current undertakings projects including "The Wire" and "Razors Edge"
The UTS Students' Association is the agent understudy association at UTS. It distributes the understudy daily paper, Vertigo, runs the second hand bookshop and promoters in the interest of understudies both separately and altogether.
UTS games clubs include: The UTS Hockey club (built in 1982); the UTS paddling club placed at Haberfield; the Sydney Cricket Club was framed in 2007 from a merger between the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust and the UTS Balmain Cricket Club; UTS Tigers (previously UTS Jets) is the University's rugby association group, associated with the Balmain Tigers rugby alliance club; UTS Gridiron contends in the Gridiron NSW class (American football); UTS fencing club; the UTS Northern Suburbs Athletic Club; the UTS Volleyball Club; the UTS Basketball Club; the UTS Swimming Club was secured in 2009; the UTS Australian Football Club or "The Bats" was shaped in 1999; the UTS Soccer Club. Other prevalent games at the University incorporate Ultimate Frisbee, Lawn Bowls; touch rugby class and 5-a-side football. The general wearing hues at UTS are green and
There are about 8 faculties in this college.
That includes Arts and Social Sciences, Business, Design, Architecture and Building, Engineering and Information Technology, Graduate School of Health, Health, Law and Science.
The ICC World Cricket League is a series of international one-day cricket tournaments for national teams without Test status, administered by the International Cricket Council. All associate and affiliate members of the ICC are eligible to compete in the league system, which features a promotion and relegation structure between divisions.
The ICC World Cricket League (ICC WCL) was created in 2007 to provide regular playing opportunities for similar standard ICC Associate and Affiliate Members (AMs) in an international 50-over competition structure. The ICC World Cricket League currently includes six divisions. Each division has six teams, except for ICC WCL Division 6 which has eight teams. Each divisional event is played approximately every 12 - 18 months and lasts 8 to 10 days in a round robin format. Promotion and relegation takes place between divisions. Top four teams from ICC WCL Division 2 held in Namibia in 2015 earned a spot in the ICC World Cricket League Championship 2015-17 and top two qualified for the ICC Intercontinental Cup 2015-17, which is the ICC’s four-day, first class competition for AMs. Following the recent decision of the ICC Board to “break the glass ceiling” and allow the winner of the ICC Intercontinental Cup the opportunity to qualify to play Test cricket, the WCL has taken on even greater significance.
Budhanilkantha Temple is located at the base of Shivapuri Hill within the valley on the northern side. It is also known as Budhanilkantha temple or Narayanthan temple .Budhanilkantha literally means “Old Blue Throat”. It is nine kilometer away from the main city. It is a deity of Lord Vishnu; Lord Vishnu is also known as Narayan.It is called Vishnu (Narayan) Jalasayan lying on Ananta Sesa, in the cosmic ocean. The deity is about thousand years old. Lord Vishnu is about five meter (Seventeen fits) long and lying in a thirteen meter (forty three fits) long tank, as if floating with his legs crossed with his sleeping body resting on the coils of Ananta and his 11 hooded head.His four hands hold the four symbols of Vishnu, the Shankha as conch shell, as disc,Gadha as club and Padma as It is believe that the deity was carved in the seventh or eighth century during the Licchavi period. Hindus can walk down and touch his feet, but foreigners cannot walk and touch. It is with the sacredness of this particular god that a deep seated belief was created by King Pratap Malla through a prophetic dream. It was his strong belief and fear that should of Nepal visit the Budhanilkantha temple, death would be threatening immediately to fall upon his departure. The two other of the deity which were carved during the same time lie at two particular destinationa, the Balaju Garden were viewing can take place and the beautiful Royal Palace in Kathmandu.It is here at Budhanilkantha temple, however thatpublic is not permitted
Taliban militants fired explosives into Afghanistan's parliament compound on Monday as the top intelligence official and caretaker minister of interior were due to speak, lawmakers and the insurgents said. Lawmakers said no one was reported wounded. But Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack and said it caused heavy casualties. The Taliban often claim responsibility for attacks and have been known to exaggerate fatality figures. "Three rockets were fired at the parliament but they did not hit the main building," said Safiullah Muslim, a lawmaker from Badakhshan province. "It happened when the session was ongoing."
A visiting German parliamentary delegation has expressed serious concern over the delay in executing post-earthquake reconstruction and recovery works in Nepal. An eight-member team led by Chairperson of the Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development of Bundestag, Dagmar Wöhrl, said a debate was being held on Nepal’s post-quake reconstruction works in the German parliament during the first anniversary of April 25 earthquake. “On the first anniversary of the devastating earthquake, we are going to discuss in Bundestag what have been achieved so far and what things remained to be done towards restoring life of people as well as destroyed infrastructures,” Wöhrl said during a press conference at the end of her five-day visit today.
“We are also going to discuss where the German taxpayers’ money are being used or not used,” she said, while encouraging the government to ‘spend well’ the support pledged by the German government, which has committed 30 million euros grant assistance for the reconstruction of primary health facilities and district hospitals as well as the rehabilitation of local infrastructure and energy supply. Wöhrl also pointed out that “spending merely 13 per cent of foreign support is not simply enough”. She also emphasised the need for early local elections so as to carry out post-disaster recovery efforts from the grassroots level.
The Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police has appealed to all users of social networking site, especially Facebook, to be cautious when posting personal information on the internet. The warning of the supreme investigating agency of the law enforcement agency comes in the wake of growing incidents of fraudulent and other criminal activities involving social media. A 20-year-old woman, who was killed after being thrown off the sixth floor of an apartment building in Lazimpat by a criminal gang on February 20, had met the murder suspects via Facebook. SP Tarini Prasad Lamsal warned that cybercriminals could spread malicious links to many people and cheat them with a phoney account showing themselves as genuine and moneyed persons. Police arrested Bishnu Kumar Tamang aka Amit and Jivan (27) of Nuwakot for swindling over a dozen women of more than Rs 10 million collectively with the promise of marrying or taking them to America posing as US Army officers. The Metropolitan Police Range, Kathmandu nabbed Tamang from Samakhusi after it received complaints against him. “Facebook and other social networking sites are an easy way for frauds and scammers to reach networks of people. You should not accept the friend request of a person who you do not recognise,” suggested SP Lamsal.@thehimalayantimes
Biratnagar-based Dhital petrol station in Morang was sealed on Monday evening after it was affirmed it was found involved in smuggling diesel. A joint team from the Commerce Office, the District Administration Office and the District Police Office led by Regional office of Standard and Metrology Department in Biratnagar sealed the station. According to the team, the station was found to be smuggling diesel and selling it in various eastern districts at comparatively higher rate. Police have arrested five persons including three employees of the station while they were smuggling diesel from the station. Police also confiscated a tanker used for the smuggling. Police said that they will file a case against the guilty after necessary investigation. However, the station owner Manish Maru is at large. Police said that a special team of police has been mobilised to search for Maru.
Bardia National Park neighbouring Banke National Park forms the largest tiger conservation area in Asia. Bardia National Park is the largest national park and wilderness area in the Terai and has excellent wildlife-watching opportunities. Bardia is often described as what Chitwan was like 30 years ago, before being overrun by tourism. The park protects 968 sq km of sal forest and grassland, and together with the 550 sq km Banke National Park it protects one of Asia’s largest stretches of tiger habitat. The tiger numbers are increasing after their demise during the Maoist insurgency.
As well as tigers, there are also healthy populations of wild elephants and one-horned rhinos among the 30 species of mammals living here. The rhinos were re-introduced from Chitwan starting in 1986 in a bid to extend their range to help conserve the species. Unfortunately the early progress was all but lost when poachers took advantage of the insurgency and the population was decimated. Today the population is slowly recovering, with 31 being counted in 2014.lonelyplanet.
ilicho Lake is a lake located in the Manang district of Nepal. It is situated at an altitude of 4,919 metres (16,138 ft) in the Annapurna range of the Himalayas.[1] Another source lists the altitude of Lake Tilicho as being 4,949 metres (16,237 ft).
Mountain lakes are known to geographers as tarns if they are caused by glacial activity. Tarns are found mostly in the upper reaches of the Himalaya, above 5,500 metres (18,000 ft).
Tilicho Lake is the destination of one of the most popular side hikes of the Annapurna Circuit trek. The hike takes additional 3–4 days. No camping is required, as new lodges have been built between Manang and the lake. Final approach to the lake is done in a day hike from the lodge at Tilicho Base Camp.
Trekkers attempting the Annapurna Circuit route usually cross the watershed between Manang and Kali Gandaki valleys over the 5416 meters high Thorong La pass. The alternate route skirting Tilicho Lake from the north has been gaining popularity. This route is more demanding and requires at least one night of camping. There are no teahouses or lodges past the Tilicho Base Camp lodge some kilometers east of the lake and the next village of Thini Gaon in the Kali Gandaki valley. Most groups spend two nights between these places. There are two passes leading to Thini Gaon and Jomsom; Mesokanto La and Tilicho North pass known also as Tilicho "Tourist pass". These routes via Tilicho Lake are more often closed by snow than the higher Thorong La.
It was also the site of one of the highest ever altitude scuba dives. A Russian diving team consisting of Andrei Andryushin, Denis Bakin and Maxim Gresko conducted a scuba dive in the lake in 2000.
Police on Saturday arrested two aspiring doctors on charge of using fake academic credentials to obtain the doctor’s licences. Under its Operation Quack, the Central Investigation Bureau of Nepal Police today arrested Rajeev Kumar Jha and Prithvi Narayan Yadav while they were taking the examination for the doctor’s licence being conducted by the Nepal Medical Council. Police said Jha (31), a permanent resident of Matsari-5 of Rautahat district had submitted a certificate of the Intermediate level with the false scores from the Bihar Intermediate Education Council in order to pursue the MBBS degree from China. After completing the MBBS course, he had done internship at a Nepali health facility also. He, however, had failed the NMC licence test for 12 times, according to police. In another case, Yadav (29) from Bahuari-4 of Bara district, also acquired a certificate with fake scores from the same institution in the same year (2006) and did MBBS from China. He had failed the NMC licence test 13 times.
Police said both of them had added some marks on their actual scores either to show they had passed the Intermediate exams or to improve their grades. The CIB had launched the Operation Watch few months ago in collaboration with the NMC and Higher Secondary Education Board in a bid to rid the medical sector of fake doctors. Police said the arrestees would be charged under the Nepal Medical Council Act, 1964.
Thursday is dedicated to Lord Vishnu and his incarnations. Pujas are conducted using milk, ghee etc. Food is only eaten once and that too containing milk products. People read Srimad Bhagavad Purana on the day
This Video will Forecast your yearly planetary movements that affect your life. Your Daily Forecast can predict: A Horoscope is a person's Birth Chart or Natal Chart. The construction of the horoscope is based on the Ptolemaic system, in which the earth is stationary. Mesh Rashi-persons of this sign are solitary by nature; they have smiling faces and are less spoken and polite to others. Vrisha Rashi-people under this sign eldom lose temper, but when they do so they don't care for the repercussions also they love music and adore jewellery and fine clothes.
In Hinduism, each day in a week is dedicated to a particular god in the Hindu pantheon. Thursday, which is Brihaspatiwar or Vrihaspativar, is dedicated to Vishnu and Brihaspati, the Guru of Devas. Thurdsay is also popularly known as Gurubar or Guruvar. Yellow is the color of the day. A fast is observed on the day and food is consumed only once. In some areas, people make it a point to visit Hanuman Temple on Thursdays.There are numerous stories associated with the reason for observing Upvaas, or fast, on Brihaspativar. Many of the stories are part of local folklore and stories vary from region to region.Almost all stories suggest that those who perform pujas and Vrats on Thursdays will be blessed with wealth and happy life. In some stories, Lord Vishnu appears in the guise of a Sadhu to test the devotees on Thursdays. In other stories, it is Brihaspati. First the person in the story denies almsand is lethargic but later realizes his/her mistake and observes Thursday Vrat and pleases the Gods. Those devotees fasting on the day wears yellow colored dress and offers yellow colored fruits and flowers to Vishnu and Brihaspati. Food is only consumed once and includes Chana Dal (Bengal Gram) and ghee. Basically, yellow colored food is eaten on the day.In some regions, banana or plantain is worshipped and watered.
Krishna (/ˈkrɪʃnÉ™/; Sanskrit: कृष्ण, Kṛṣṇa in IAST, pronounced [ˈkr̩ʂɳə] ( listen)) is a Hindu deity, worshipped across many traditions of Hinduism in a variety of different perspectives. Krishna is recognized as the complete and eighth avatar of the God Vishnu or as the Supreme God in his own right. Krishna is one of the most widely revered and popular of all Hindu deities.
Krishna is known by many names such as Kishan, Makhanchor, and Kanha. Krishna is often described and portrayed as an infant eating butter, a young boy playing a flute as in the Bhagavata Purana, a young man along with Radha or as an elder giving direction and guidance as in the Bhagavad Gita. The stories of Krishna appear across a broad spectrum of Hindu philosophical and theological traditions. They portray him in various perspectives: a god-child, a prankster, a model lover, a divine hero, and the Supreme Being. The principal scriptures discussing Krishna's story are the Mahabharata, the Harivamsa, the Bhagavata Purana, and th
The Kathmandu Metropolitan City seized over 500 kg of rotten meat from fresh houses in Sundhara on Tuesday. The inspection team had raided fresh houses run by Salam Ansari and Sakim Ansari at Sundhara ward no 22 and tested the samples. Out of five meat shops run by the Ansaris, three were found selling inedible meat. KMC has started inspection of meat shops and eateries from Monday onwards. The inspection team had probed 10 meat shops and six fish shops today. Kathmandu has around 2,500 meat shops and around 1,000 fish shops, and 90 percent of shop owners have been selling the meat and fish items without basic hygiene.
Sunny Leone will be seen romancing model and actor Tanuj Virwani. The teaser features Urvil (Sea) and Selena (Sky) who can never meet and where they meet, the world would end, as said by Selena aka Sunny in the teaser
Everything around is uncertain that people should prepare for any scenario. Really, really the only things certain around are taxes and dying. Either of individual’s situations will definitely happen in the course of a person's existence. While taxes is going to be found in each population, coloring will come as a robber indoors the evening.
Sickness and dying are frightening since it is. They become much more frightening when one has not prepared for this type of scenario. Due to this, why everybody is worthy of a life insurance coverage.
With up to one billion people at an increased risk of blindness, myopia is all set to become the leading cause of permanent blindness globally.
Further, with the findings suggesting that the US will have 260 million myopes by 2050, up from the 90 million in 2000, and Canada will see 66 million high myopes by 2050, up from the 11 million in 2000, the vision loss from high myopia is expected to increase seven-fold from 2000 to 2050.
The rapid increase in the prevalence of myopia globally is attributed to “environmental factors, lifestyle changes resulting from a combination of decreased time outdoors and increased near work activities, among other factors”, said the researchers.
Parents need to ensure that the children’s eyes are regularly checked, improve time outdoors and moderate time on near based activities, including electronic devices.
Also, comprehensive eye care services is needed to check the rapid increase in high myopes, along with the development of treatments to control the progression of myopia and prevent people from becoming highly myopic, the researchers suggested in the study published in the journal Ophthalmology revealed.
“We also need to ensure our children receive a regular eye examination from an optometrist or ophthalmologist, preferably each year, so that preventative strategies can be employed if they are at risk,” said Kovin Naidoo, a professor at the University of New South Wales in Australia.
Everything around is uncertain that people should prepare for any scenario. Really, really the only things certain around are taxes and dying. Either of individual’s situations will definitely happen in the course of a person's existence. While taxes is going to be found in each population, coloring will come as a robber indoors the evening.
Sickness and dying are frightening since it is. They become much more frightening when one has not prepared for this type of scenario. Due to this, why everybody is worthy of a life insurance coverage.
People should always plan their finances and achieving a life insurance coverage is a sure way of planning their finances. Acquiring a life insurance coverage is much like saving money for hard times since you will find life insurance coverage recommendations that provide for just about any cash value when the insurance policy just sits there up by the owner insured. Under this provision, the insured can withdraw or borrow from his insurance policy. Furthermore, this means planning money for hard times of individuals you want just in case something happens.
There are at least three winning tickets in the US for the record $1.6bn (£1.1bn) lottery jackpot, officials have said.
The winning tickets in the Powerball jackpot were sold in California, Tennessee and Florida.
The previous draw was the 19th without a grand prize winner, which requires all six numbers to match.
Officials said it would take several hours to know if there were any other winning tickets.
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Winning numbers in 13 January draw
The identity of the winners is not yet known.
Thousands of people queued up outside shops across the US on Wednesday, hoping to defy the odds of 292.2 million to one.
California Lottery tweeted that the winning ticket in the state was sold at a 7-Eleven store in Chino Hills, a suburb east of Los Angeles.
Television pictures showed a cheering crowd gathering at the shop after the result was announced.
The winners will share a prize of $1.586bn. They can collect their winnings in annual payments over 29 years, or opt to share a lump-sum payment of $930m.
The government will also share in the big prize, however, levying a 39.6% federal income tax on the winners - and the payout will also be subject any taxes that the winners' home states may impose.
Sydney: Nearly five billion people, that is about half the world’s population, are poised to become myopic or short-sighted by the end of 2050, indicates a study.
Also called nearsightedness, myopia is a vision condition in which people can see clearly the objects that are close to eyes but objects far away appear to be blurred to the sight.
Acting like a silent epidemic, myopia is all set to become the leading cause of permanent blindness globally.
Experiments at the AMC, which include working out the best layouts for the deployment of multiple generator units alongside each other, are being conducted in the college’s wave pool.
Swinburne Associate Professor Richard Manasseh said a poor layout could cause generators to interfere with each other by absorbing or deflecting waves, preventing neighbouring units from fully utilising the waves.
The effort – to find ways to extract maximum energy from waves, to understand environmental consequences and to develop methods for assessing a wave farm’s feasibility – involves CSIRO, AMC, the Bureau of Meteorology and Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology.
They are being joined by two of Australia’s leading wave energy pioneers, BioPower Systems Pty Ltd and Carnegie Wave Energy, and funding body the Australian Renewable Energy Agency.
THE Australian Maritime College has entered a final push to kickstart the commercial rollout of technologies for generating electricity from ocean waves.
Mark Hemer, from CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, said a few more hurdles needed to be overcome before wave power, which had been lagging wind power by about two decades, could take off commercially.
Once all of the necessary application materials have been rounded up, go ahead and apply to a program.
Once you are accepted, it's time for the fun part---planning your journey! This involves picking classes, figuring out where to go on side trips and finding and reserving housing in a dormitory or apartment building. Just remember to make the most of this fabulous opportunity and enjoy the ride!
When contemplating how to pay for medical school abroad, be aware that there is financial aid available specifically to use while studying abroad, so don't let the cost get in the way of going on this life-changing adventure. Regular financial aid can also be used in many cases. Plus, scholarships and grants are out there, so be sure to look into those.
Once you have chosen a program, go over what the requirements are, the costs involved, tests that may need to be passed, the application process and any upcoming deadlines. Programs can be run through a study abroad company, an American school or through direct enrollment at the Australian university, so this can affect how a person goes about applying for admission. Either way, a representative at one of the aforementioned places will be able to help you with applying.
Taxes are compulsory payments made by individuals and businesses to government treasuries to finance public services. Some taxes are directed to specific purposes, however, and these are often called “benefit taxes.” As an example of a benefit tax, consider the social security payments made by individuals to fund public pensions and unemployment insurance (employment insurance in Canada), which are made available to the whole population. Individuals must pay the tax (and then receive the benefit as determined by law) without choice. Taxes are not the only source of government revenue. Governments also use non-tax revenues, including royalties paid by companies for the extraction of resources from public lands, profits from Crown corporations, fees paid for use of public services, grants (such as foreign aid), investment income, fines, and voluntary transfers to the state. In some countries, non-tax revenues can make up a significant share of total revenues raised by governments. Table 1.2 shows that total revenues raised by the OECD countries are uniformly higher than the taxes paid. For example, in 2005 Canada’s total government revenues as a share of GDP were 40.8 percent, while taxes made up only 33.4 percent. Tax revenues account for the bulk of payments made by individuals and businesses, but non-tax revenues constituted 7.4 percent of the GDP in 2005, which is about one-fifth of total revenues. A significant part of non-tax revenues are resource royalty payments and user fees, such as tuition fees at public universities and colleges. As a broad generalization, government expenditures and aggregate taxes have been rising fairly steadily in almost all developed countries for upward of three centuries. In the early years, these increases reflected the growth in the power of centralized nation states as well as the rising costs of wars. But while the costs of military preparedness has historically been an important factor in explaining the growth of governments, the rapid growth of welfare and social services has been more critical, especially since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Films, in Nepal, are taking a bound towards post-modernized art. Despite few (or perhaps, many) unsuccessful films, some have started to leave a mark-the welcoming of New Generation, the New Nepali Cinemascope. Though not commercially conquering, many a film made within the contending industry have poised themselves as a strong competitor in captivating the heart of the mass and the class alike. Small budgets cinema that carries all- entertainment, a therapy to emotional scratch, note to the audiences, portrays hard work of the team. Saghuro, Kathaa, Manjari, Antaral, Hostel to name few; have left a lasting impression on the viewers. Few upcoming movies like Mokshya, Jholey, Ritu, Raghav, Fitkiri, Mukhauta, look equally captivating. But, the challenge now is on commercialization. Who will instigate? Film industry is not just a story of hue and cry of the directors, producers and actors in particular but the national spectator as a whole. The industry, in many parts of the globe, contributes to economy. To a large extent even. Many countries have developed some of their cities as Film Cities endorsing tourism as well
So you think that you want to study in Australia? One of the things that have probably come to your mind during your decision-making process is how much your education is going to cost. Thankfully, there are a lot of factors that can play into the costs of studying in Australia. Where the institution is located, whether the university is public or private, and what level of study that you are pursuing all factor into how much it’s going to cost you to attend university. One convenient thing about being an international student that is going to Australia to study is that you can pay your tuition fees before you even start attending. This will help you with budgeting during your schooling and it can also help you with saving up money for your education before you even end up in Australia. If you have decided that you are going to attend a university in Australia before finishing your secondary schooling degree, you could end up getting a lot of your education paid off before you step foot in the country. You may also have to pay fees related to the courses you are taking or the degree program that you are in.
Certificate Levels I to IV, Diploma, and Advanced Diploma All of these fall into the category of vocational training. If you are going to Australia for vocational education and/or training, you will pay anywhere from $4,000 (for a 4 to 6 month Certificate I program) to $22,000 (for a complete advanced diploma program) Bachelor’s Degree These degrees will vary depending on whether you go to a public university or a private university. Public universities can run anywhere from $10,000 to $20,000 per year; private universities can cost upwards of $33,000 per year (there are only a handful of private universities in the country, so you are more likely to be attending a public university). Much of the time, the costs related to these degrees can be taken care of through financial aid and scholarships.
Sajha Sawal (Common Questions), a current affairs/development TV show, was awarded with “Popular Participatory Programme” in the talk show category, on Sunday in Kathmandu amidst an attractive function. On behalf of Sajha Sawal, Ishwar Rauniyar received the trophy and certificate from the Director of Nepal Television, Mr. Prakash Jung Karki, who was invited as a guest by the organizer, Artworkers Forum of Nepal (TAFON). TAFON is a forum for all the TV workers in Nepal. The certificate that has signatures of Mr. Krishna Dhungana, Chairman of TAFON and Mr. Lilamani Poudel, Chief Secretary of Nepal Government reads, “In a bid to encourage and respect the work of television artworkers this award has been given to Sajha Sawal under the category of Popular Public Participatory Talk Show.” Sajha Sawal is The BBC Media Action, Nepal’s production. It broadcasts through Kantipur Television, BBC Nepali Service Radio along with other 250 local fm stations every Sunday at 9 pm.
Universities and Higher Education As of 2009, the Australia higher education system had 41 universities. 37 of the universities are public, 2 are private, and 2 of them are Australian branches of universities that are located overseas. There are also 3 self-accrediting higher education institutions. There are also dozens of smaller schools that do not grant any degrees or have accreditation – these are private schools that focus on theology, business, information technology, natural therapies, hospitality, health, law and accounting. Most Australian universities are self-accrediting institutions that each run under a legislation (usually at the state or territory level). They get most of their funding from the Australian government through the Higher Education Support Act 2003. This act put the existing aims of universities into legal terms, recognized each of the universities, and introduced measures to strength the knowledge base of the country. Essentially, this act made it so that Australian universities were able to obtain money from the federal government via grants and loans.
