DPM Mahara off to China on six-day trip

Sep 6, 2017-Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Krishna Bahadur Mahara, left for Beijing, China, leading a four-member delegation on a six-day official visit at the invitation of his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Wednesday.

A team comprising Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shanker Das Bairagi and senior officers, and Chinese Ambassador for Nepal Yu Hong reached Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) to see off the delegation which also includes Foreign Ministry's North-east Asia division chief Ganesh Dhakal and Nepali Ambassador for China, Leelamani Poudyal.

During the visit, the Deputy Prime Minister will hold a meeting with the Chinese Foreign Minister and his delegation, with Chinese senior leaders and attend a discussion programme to be held at the Beijing-based China Foreign Affairs University. Senior officials of the foreign affairs ministries of both countries and Beijing-based Nepalese Embassy will be present in the bilateral meetings.

The Deputy Prime Minister is scheduled to inaugurate Nepal's Consulate General's office established in Guangzhou, address a gathering of business community there and meet provincial leaders. He is returning home on September 11. RSS

US trio win Nobel for finding Einstein’s gravitational waves

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Liquid cats, crocodile bets and didgeridoos win Ig Nobel science prizes

CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: Scientists taking on the deep questions of whether cats are liquid or solid, how holding a crocodile influences gambling and whether playing the didgeridoo can help cure snoring were honored Thursday at the Ig Nobel Prize spoof awards. The prizes are the brainchild of Marc Abrahams, editor of the Annals of Improbable Research, and are intended not to honor the best or worst in science, but rather to highlight research that encourages people to think in unusual ways. “We hope that this will get people back into the habits they probably had when they were kids of paying attention to odd things and holding out for a moment and deciding whether they are good or bad only after they have a chance to think,” Abrahams said in a phone interview. Some of the honorees tend towards the spurious: French researcher Marc-Antoine Fardin’s 2014 study “Can a Cat Be Both a Solid and a Liquid?” was inspired by internet photos of cats tucked into glasses, buckets...

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