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Momo Karma claims to be the “Taste of Darjeeling in Nepal,” serving the most famous—momos, alu dum, chop and other delectable delicacies from the Hills of Love. Housed in the Onward Nepal Building, Nag Pokhari Marg, this eatery promises a ‘farm-to-table’ food, with its use of only locally sourced organic products.

Besides the tasty food and a selection of coffee and other refreshing drinks, Momo Karma also hosts small events, mainly art exhibitions and concerts, inside its cozy premises.  

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Chef’s Special:

Darjeeling Style Chinese Pork Sausages, Pork Momos, Aloo Dum

Opening hours

9 am (Coffee), 11 am (lunch)

Closing Time: 9 pm

For reservations

986-9222988

Cards

Not Accepted  

Laxmi Intercontinental, the authorized dis­tributor for Hyundai automobiles in Nepal, has launched the ‘Hyundai New Year Delight’ scheme for the upcoming Nepali New Year 2075.

Under this scheme, customers can get New Year benefits worth up to Rs 713,000. The scheme also offers exchange facilities with the best valuation and an attractive easy finance facility. All Hyundai automobiles come with four years free service and three years warranty.  

NIC Asia Bank has introduced ‘Agreem Bhuktani Muddati Khata,’ a New Year scheme under which the bank will issue interest to its fixed depositors for their deposits in advance.

Fixed depositors at the bank for different periods—three months, six months, nine months and one year—will get the interest on their fixed deposits on the very day the customer opens the account. Cus­tomers will get interest in advance amounting to 11 percent annual rate of deposits. The fixed depos­itors can also withdraw up to 80 percent of their deposit as ‘loan’ under the scheme.  

To celebrate the launch of Qatar Airways’ inaugural flight to Thessaloniki, the second largest city in Greece, Qatar Airways Nepal hosted a media interaction with the Honorary Consul of Greece Bikram Pandey and Country Manager Jayaprakash Nair.

At the briefing, Nair highlighted the award-winning airline’s robust expansion plans, as well as its commitment to bringing more travelers from Nepal to Greece, and to connect Thessaloniki to its extensive global network via the Hamad International Airport (HIA) in Doha. “We are tremendously excited to launch our four weekly flight service to Thessaloniki. Having three daily flights to Athens, we realized the growing demand in Greece, and what better place than the Thessaloniki?” he said. “This new four weekly flight service will without doubt offer our Greece passengers more convenience and alternate choice in addition to Athens”.

Speaking at the event, Pandey said, “We appreciate Qatar Airways’ strong support for Greece. An airline of this stature will further boost Thessaloniki’s reputation as a leading tourist destination.”

Since the breakout of the support level at 1,350, Mr Bull went into recess while Mr Bear took the cen­ter-stage. Talk of the town moved from “long correc­tion” to “bearish”. The panic sell that started on February 28 chugged along on its southbound track. There were small respites on March 6-7 and March 13-15 periods. The bearish sentiments of the market were further veri­fied when the gains made in these short-lived bounce­backs were completely wiped out within a single day’s trading on March 11 (wiping out the gains made on March 6-7) and March 18 (wiping out the gains made on bounceback rally of March 13-15).

The southbound move­ment reignited on March 18 continued without any pull-ups for more than a week. Interestingly, the volume traded started to increase after the dip on March 19 (Rs 256 million), reaching Rs 493 million on March 28.

This indicated increase in buying interest in the sell­er-dominated market. Peo­ple start see each and every scrip as cheap and heavily discounted. The market consists of the traders and the investors. For the trad­ers, the current market is giving lesser opportunities for quick gains. But, the investors, who have the patience to stay the course for one to two years, are having a field day choosing fundamentally strong and undervalued scrip. If we do proper financial analysis, we can now find many scrips with considerably good EPS (earning per share) with lesser PE ratio (price-earn­ings ratio) which are simply begging to be accumulated. Mr. Bear might continue to have the center stage, mak­ing the majority fearful. But the smarter few will start being greedy and start accu­mulating for the long haul.  

By MANIL SHRESTHA

Have you ever been heartbro­ken, as a woman, watching some Nepali TV ads? Some new commercials seem to be igno­rant of what women have achieved globally and instead continue to portray women as weak, inferior, and even stupid.Ad one: Two prominent cricketers Gyanendra Malla and Basanta Regmi enter a living room sporting cricket jerseys, arguing about their bowling whereas the female actor playing Gyanendra Malla’s wife is seen with a bowl and a tray of vegetables, in full make-up, watching a Hindi serial (being emotional too), who leaves the room (after drawing Gyanendra’s stare) so that the guys can watch TV.

Ad two: A helpless woman hangs on to the feet (literally) of her hus­band/boyfriend/lover who is holding on to iron rods convincing her that they will be safe as “the man” has the support of those life-saving (as if) rods. This commercial shows that women are such stupid creatures that they risk their lives holding on to the feet of their partners even in life-and-death situations. Even animals could know the dangers of these risks!

It is true that Nepal was a male-dominant country for long and ads like these could have been con­sidered normal. But hey, times have changed! For example, the head of the Nepali state is a woman (serv­ing her second term, in fact), there was a woman Chief Justice of the Supreme Court as well as Speaker of the House. Female literacy rate has gone up significantly (around 80 percent of women aged between 15-24), more and more women are holding senior positions in workplaces. So this kind of ignorance is no longer justifiable.

It is also true that there’s still a significant percent of Nepali wom­en who need men for emotional and financial support. Culturally, too, we can’t see the recent changes happening all over the country. In fact, we still hear cases of women beaten to death with allegations of witchcraft. We still hear about brutal stories of girls (even children) being gang-raped. This is exactly where the media (not just journalists but also ad agencies) can play a crucial role in conveying the message that women can live lives of dignity.

But, on the other hand, we can also learn from Indian TV commer­cials highlighting women’s roles in a creative manner. The ad of Indian cricketers with their mother's names printed on their jerseys breaks one stereotype. #Sharetheload is an example of a campaign started by Ariel detergent where a father acknowledges his problem in par­enting and encourages men to be role models and share the work load.

Television ads still have the power to influence people’s minds. And it is the responsibility of people from all walks of lives to acknowledge that there’s a growing population of women—educated, competent and self-reliant—who want the typical gender roles to end for good. It is now time to rise above the inequality paradigm.

BY PRERANA MARASINI

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Janakpurdham: Chief Minis­ter of Province 2 Lalbabu Raut on March 27 unveiled his gov­ernment’s 100-day action plan which aims to lead the prov­ince to prosperity. An invest­ment-friendly climate, inves­tor-friendly laws and policies, a province-level investment board, and development of spe­cial economic zones are some of the priorities of the action plan. Likewise, the document states that the province will be developed into a green zone through the promotion of organic farming and fishery. Among other priorities spelled out are cold storage facilities for agriculture products, mod­ernization of agriculture and guaranteed irrigation. RSS

DARCHULA: A 15-member team of the Armed Police Force has been dispatched from the APF border security battalion in Darchula to secure the north­ern border with China, after it was reported that the Indi­an side had unilaterally con­structed four bridges over the Mahakali river. The APF team aims to secure the area in the wake of the construction of the new bridges, head of the battal­ion Ambika Prasad Joshi said. The team led by sub-inspector Rajendra Chand will take stock of the situation and also check any illegal activities including smuggling, Joshi added. RSS