Former Australia cricketer Dav Whatmore was on Thursday appointed as head coach of the Nepal fledgling cricket team
Goals Beyond Borders: Can Bangladesh Leverage its Football Craze as a Soft-power Tool?
Beyond the ambassadors of Brazil, Argentina, and Norway, the ambassadors of France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Morocco, and Egypt have also been drawing on their countries' football heritage to deepen cultural engagement with the football-crazy people of Bangladesh.
Name Change and Memory Archives: Striking Divergence Between India and Pakistan
Ironically, while India continues to rename roads and institutions associated with its medieval and colonial past, Pakistan’s Punjab province has begun moving in the opposite direction.
Protective Parenting: Raising Safe Children or Fragile Adults?
Unfortunately, a growing number of parents appear apprehensive about their children becoming proficient in their mother tongue, believing that greater exposure to local languages may somehow hinder their command of English or other global languages. This perception is both unfortunate and unfounded. A strong foundation in one's mother tongue strengthens cognitive development, improves learning outcomes, and facilitates the acquisition of additional languages.
When Poison Enters the System: Impunity, Vigilantism and South Asia’s Internal Security Failure
Across South Asia, the difference between prejudice and collapse is not the existence of hate. Every society has it in varying shades. The difference is whether the majoritarian state internalizes hate against the ‘other’, whether FIRs get diluted, trials get delayed, mobs get garlanded and impunity driven violence against minorities becomes low-cost. When that happens, the poison is not outside the system. It becomes the system.
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Yoga recognised as competitive sport in India
INDIA on Thursday formally recognised yoga as a competitive sport
Social media gives new hope to a homeless boy in India
His father is in jail, his mother has deserted him and he does not remember the name of his village he is from. For the past few years, nine-year-old Ankit has been living on a footpath and surviving by working at a tea stall in Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh
Pashupati - one of the holiest shrines for Hindus - opens for devotees after nine months of closure
After nine months of banning devotees' entry, Pashupatinath temple in Kathmandu is open for public from Wednesday
Pashupatinath Temple in Nepal to be opened to devotees from Wednesday
Atonement worship is to be offered at the Pashupatinath Temple tomorrow morning, seeking forgiveness as the shrine had to be shut to the devotees for nine months corresponding to the COVID-19 pandemic
Elephant killings in Sri Lanka anger pop star and animal rights activist Cher
Famed American pop singer Cher took to Twitter over the weekend to react to last week’s report that Sri Lanka was leading the world in elephant killings
Nepalese sherpa to lead 55-member K2 winter expedition
Thirteen of the world's 14 peaks taller than 8,000-meters have been climbed in winter
Sarwat Gillani, Bilal Abbas, Ali Zafar among Top 50 Asian Celebrities of 2020
Pakistani celebrities including Sarwat Gilani, Bilal Abbas Khan, Ali Zafar and Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy have made it to Eastern Eye's Top 50 Asian Celebrities of the World in 2020
Muslim businessman donates land to Bengaluru temple, hailed as paragon of communal harmony
Seeing Hindu devotees struggle to pray to their favourite deity, a Muslim businessman has donated a 1,650 sq feet plot valued around Rs 1 crore (10 million rupees) to Sri Veeranjaneya Swamy temple in Hosakote, on the outskirts of Bengaluru, known as India's tech capital
Vandalism of Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s statue in Pakistan condemned
A man was arrested for vandalising the statue of Sikh leader Maharaja Ranjit Singh, located in the Lahore Fort, on Friday and several have come forward to condemn the act
Bollywood actor Sonu Sood named Top Global Asian Celebrity 2020
Bollywood actor Sonu Sood has been named the number one Asian celebrity on the planet for 2020
Ayurveda centre for alternative treatment opens in UAE capial
A registered ayurveda centre - based on India's indigenous system of herb-based medicine - that will provide alternative and complementary treatment for chronic conditions has opened in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, a media report said on Friday
Nepal’s tennis stars shine in Covid times
When Aarav Samrat Hada and Aki Zuben Rawat won the boys’ doubles title in the ITF J5 Juniors Tennis Championships in Pakistan last week, it hardly made to the news in Nepal and went largely unnoticed
Nepal bags three gold, one silver in World Power Lifting Championship
Nepal has clinched three gold and a silver medal in the 21st edition of World Power Lifting Championship Men’s and Women-2020 in Amaravati, India held from December 5 to 8
Rowing across Atlantic to build schools in rural Nepal
The four crew members have completed military tours in combat zones, rowed the North Pacific, ran the Marathon De Sable and climbed mountains
