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By NLRC Staff, June 8, 2016, Category:
MusicOne morning, Amber Gurung found himself listening to school kids singing Nepal's national anthem as they started their school day. Gurung could not describe the emotions he saw in the eyes of the little kids. As the kids sang the national anthem that he had composed, Gurung could feel, to some extent, the impact his work had made. In their sparkling eyes, he found the respect they had for him. Gurung got overwhelmed with joy and found it hard to control his emotions. For Gurung, that was one of his biggest achievements. The name, the fame, and the jobs he had or the many accolades he had received seemed so trivial and insignificant compared to the satisfaction he felt watching the energy radiating from the kids' eyes. "Everything is in the eyes," Gurung said, "a true love can be seen in the eyes, so can a feeling of hatred be seen there; we simply have to recognize and feel the expressions reflected in those eyes.
By NLRC Staff, December 16, 2010, Category:
LanguageWe congratulate Nepal Academy for publishing the seventh edition of its dictionary. The Academy's dictionary, which is the official dictionary for the Nepali language, is one of the most important documents for the Nepali language and continues to be the authoritative document in the discipline.
About Nepali dictionaries
The first published Nepali dictionary is considered to be Ralph Lilley Turner's dictionary, A comparative and etymological dictionary of the Nepali language, published in 1931 in London. Unlike other Nepali dictionaries mentioned in this section, Turner's dictionary was a Nepali-to-English dictionary. After Turner's dictionary was published, many efforts started to publish a Nepali dictionary, with definitions also in Nepali.
By NLRC Staff, January 12, 2011, Category:
LanguageOn Jan 10-12, 2011, Nepal Academy organized a three-day conference, the 2011 Nepali Language Conference, in Kathmandu in which many in the Nepali language community participated, including Nepali language experts and lexicographers from Nepal and India. Various papers were presented at the conference for discussion. At the end of the conference, a team consisting of notable Nepali language experts presented a set of decisions agreed upon at the conference.
The goal of the conference was to sort out many conflicting arguments and opinions on Nepali orthography, and to try to come up with common guidelines agreeable to all sides. The decisions of the conference, which includes such common guidelines, will be adopted by the Academy.
We congratulate Nepal Academy for taking the initiative to organize the conference, which, we believe, will help to minimize the confusion on the Nepali language usage, especially over orthography.
By NLRC Staff, January 17, 2016, Category:
GeneralThe border disruptions between India and Nepal, which led to months of shortages, especially fuel, have started to ease after Nepal endured months of hardship due to the shortages.
India, that has an open border with Nepal, has security reasons to be concerned about developments in Nepal, more so to the activities along the border. Understandably for this reason, India wants the grievances of the Madheshi community living along the border with India addressed.
However, the turn of events during the past few months, unfortunately, led to a humanitarian crisis, which neither country wished to see it happen and get to such crisis levels. The crisis was a result of Nepal not being able to take the Madheshi community into confidence and the diplomatic gaffe between the two countries during the course of the promulgation of Nepal's constitution last September.
By NLRC Staff, February 28, 2016, Category:
GeneralThe United States provides special trade preferences for Nepali for the next ten years, mainly benefiting Nepal's garment industry as the new provision allows certain items from Nepal, mainly textiles and apparels, enter the US duty-free.
The trade preferences also includes a trade facilitation and capacity building program. The preferential treatment under the trade preferences will end at the end of 2025[1].
Nepal's garment industry has seen a sharp decline in its exports since the expiration of Multi Fibre Arrangement (MFA) in 2005, which had imposed quotas on how much developing countries could export textiles and garments to developed countries. That had indirectly created an opening for small developing countries to raise its exports.