Tuesday, 28 July 2009
Saturday, 25 July 2009
GöNeS alumni participated in Blood Donation at USA
Amid an especial program at the University of Maine, a Blood drive was organized in cooperation with American Red Cross in July 13, 2009. Number of people; students and employee donated blood.
It was a proud of me and my pleasure to get this opportunity of donating blood even in abroad. Rigorous examinations and history exploration make it really difficult to be accepted.
This is good summer time in Maine, full of greenery, lots of joys and entertainment.
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Goettengeli Alumni
Its my great pleasure to be an Alumni member of Nepali Society in Goettingen. Read more...
Excellence Initiative of Goettingen University
World renowned university; Georg August University, has started many initiative to establish it as the center of excellence in the research. Among many, to attract young scientist and researchers, they have started many activities, which is mainly targeted to "Brain gain".
In video, we can see a short interview of 30 years old Professor. It looks like incredible to get such a big achievement at a young age!
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Thursday, 23 July 2009
What is this? Drama or Intuition?!
It is very difficult to understand what is our Prime minister Madhav Kumar Nepal doing there! Is he playing a drama? I am surprised with the pityful condition of the hospital, saline water hanging on the wall instead of any stand. What does that mean to him and policy maker? Probably nothing. If they have small headache or little vomitting, they immediately run to APOLLO or AIMS New delhi, but for the poor people from rural areas has to sacrifice their life without any treatment. Many children loss their life in the absence of Cetamol, Jeevan Jal or such basic medicines!
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Sunday, 19 July 2009
DAAD scholarship holders meet at Hannover
It is already one month back there was a meeting of DAAD Scholarship Holders at Hannover from 19-21 June 2009. All the scholarship holders who are studying in different universities in the North Block of Germany were participated in this meeting. More than 350 students including their spouses and children were meet together . These students were represented different 49 countries of the world.
DAAD has divided Germany into two parts namely South and North Block to manage the Scholarship Programme. The interactive plenary discussion between the DAAD officials and scholarship holders was wonderful programme. The meeting was unique in terms of gathering different groups of people from different countries in the same place. The presentation on cross-cutting th
emes of climate change, natural resources management, earth system, banking and economics etc were also made.
The socialization programme, visit to different historical parts of Hannover, visit to Sea Life, dancing in the Discotheque were the major attractions of the meeting. For children there were separate entertainment programme by the child specialists.
In the meeting altogether more than 20 Nepalese including scholarship holders, spouses and children from different University of Germany were actively participated.
Saturday, 18 July 2009
Memorable visit to New Botanical Garden of University
Children with their parents under the marvellous architecture, explaining about the formation of continents. The gate belongs to Department of Geology of Georg August University, Goettingen.
On the way returning to apartment, around 6:30 pm, again the sky turned black with dark clouds and started to rain. But it was for very short time.
Even Aarju was happy to visit this place!
Everybody is fascinated with the beautiful landscape, different kinds of plants & their management!
Small wooden bridge connects botanical garden with nearby Forest !
This is the den made of Cupressus Branches! Children posing like Lion living in the den!
Kalpana Bhauju also liked these flowers!
Cizita is more than happy to shot with these beautiful flowers!
After long walks, why not to relax for a while!
Children learned many things about different flower, their cultivation and importance! 
Everyone like to be captured with the beautiful scene !
This place is attractive for everyone!
Cizita is also practicing meditation there !
Avi Raman is practicing meditation on the rock.
Even small kids like Aarju has enjoyed and experienced small aggregates !
Children enjoying above the big rocks. They are seemed in different mood!
On the way, we taught children about Elternhaus, Deutsche Rotekreuz, Maple tree and such other important things. They were curious to listen about these things!
At 13:00 O'Clock, we started our tour towards Botanical Garden. There were few drops of rain. It was seemed to occur heavy downpour. Despite of this, we didnot stop and continue the journey!
On the way returning to apartment, around 6:30 pm, again the sky turned black with dark clouds and started to rain. But it was for very short time.
Even Aarju was happy to visit this place!
Everybody is fascinated with the beautiful landscape, different kinds of plants & their management!
Small wooden bridge connects botanical garden with nearby Forest !
This is the den made of Cupressus Branches! Children posing like Lion living in the den!
Kalpana Bhauju also liked these flowers!
Cizita is more than happy to shot with these beautiful flowers!
After long walks, why not to relax for a while!
Children learned many things about different flower, their cultivation and importance! 
Everyone like to be captured with the beautiful scene !
This place is attractive for everyone!
Cizita is also practicing meditation there !
Avi Raman is practicing meditation on the rock.
Even small kids like Aarju has enjoyed and experienced small aggregates !
Children enjoying above the big rocks. They are seemed in different mood!
On the way, we taught children about Elternhaus, Deutsche Rotekreuz, Maple tree and such other important things. They were curious to listen about these things!
At 13:00 O'Clock, we started our tour towards Botanical Garden. There were few drops of rain. It was seemed to occur heavy downpour. Despite of this, we didnot stop and continue the journey!Read more...
Beutiful flowers and their varieties !
These are the few photos of the flowers that we shot this afternoon during our visit to Rose Garden of Georg-August University, Goettingen. These flowers are very beautiful and spreading the happiness towards everywhere. When we see and feel these flowers and their fragrances, we remembered that the popular song by Ani, "Ful ko Aakha ma Fulai Sansar, Kada ko Akha ma Kadai Sansar; Jhulkinchha hai Chhaya Bastu Ansar." We didnot experience thorns, we swam only in the beauty of these flowers. Might be it is due to the impression by song or something else, we donot know. I think that you all have seen only the beauty of these flowers, not the thorns existed there! Am I right !
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Our Sweet daughters !
These are among few sweet daughters in Goettingen. We have seven daughters altogether in Goettingen. Aarju, Aditi, Amisha (Omisha), Angila, Anshu, Ayushma and Cizita. Out of seven, the name of six daughters start with nepali alphabet "AA". All they are pretty and talented in different field of child world. We wish all the happiness in their face! May God provide them all the happiness and enjoyment in their lives. We wish to put photos from other daughters also in our small window towards rest of the world, our Blog. Would you please to send few photos to me or upload yourself into this blog?!
(Innocences abroad on the faces of Angila, Ayushma and Aarju: the combination of holiness and honesty, selflessness and simplicity!) Read more...
Wednesday, 15 July 2009
Working in the German Forest
There is the quite a diverse and new experiences for me about working in the Forest of Germany. Since last month, I have been intesively engaged in the collection of samples from three different areas of Germany. These are few photos from the field work at Schorfheide Chorin. The forest areas are intensively being researched for different aspects of forestry. I have been involved on the genetic aspects of Forest. I will upload moree photos and experiences later on.
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TEST your Knowledge on National Geography !
This is the beautiful place in Nepal. I would like to ask you, to write the name of the place. There is the surprise prize for the correct answer.
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Friday, 3 July 2009
Thursday, 2 July 2009
Educating a people !
By Biswas Baral
This year's School Leaving Certificate (SLC) results, with 68.47 percent students clearing the exams, is the best ever in the annual exams' 75-year-long history. Though doubts linger about the
underlying reason behind the better-than-expected outcome — regarding the amount and appropriateness of grace marks, for instance — the educationists deserve a pat on the back. Secondary education reform, especially since 2007, when the government introduced the provision of incorporating only questions from the grade 10 syllabus in SLC question papers, has been particularly effective.
But not all envisaged reforms have produced the desired results. The much-hyped National Literacy Campaign (NLC) launched by the erstwhile UCPN (Maoist)-led government with the aim of making about 2.6 million Nepalis literate has turned out a damp squib. The Non-Formal Education Centre (NFEC), which has been tasked with overseeing the programme, hasn't even been able to pay the teachers working under its watch.
It was strange that NFEC couldn't put together enough money to fund NLC. Notably, for the current fiscal year, the erstwhile Maoist-led government had set aside Rs. 38.98 billion of the total Rs. 236 billion (U.S. $3.5 billion) national budget for education, which amounts to 16.5 percent of total budget, a massive share of the pie by any standard. (The second biggest cut of Rs 15.58 billion went to health.) This begs the question of where all the money is going.
Nonetheless, the Maoist intent, nicely captured in their budget-related slogan of “New Nepal, Learned Nepal” cannot be doubted. And nor can their aim of providing primary education to 91 percent of all Nepalis by the end of the current fiscal year.
But the sad fact remains that Nepal's adult literacy rate hovers around 50 percent — which means nearly half the populace is still uneducated. More problematically, just 60.6 females are educated for every 100 educated males. To this day, there are enormous social constraints which prevent girls from attending school. Most school-age rural girls are involved with household chores and parents are reluctant to take up the tedious work.
The good news is: even small scholarship schemes amounting to no more than a couple of hundred rupees have proven successful at getting girls to school. The provision of free snacks and food ration in return for sending children to school has also been effective in some parts of the country. The government's bid to educate parents on the importance of education, too, seems to be working.
Overall, there are enough reasons not to cut the education sector's share in next year's budget. Certainly not in one of the least developed countries in the world. It is no coincidence that the countries with the best literacy ratios (U.S., Japan, South Korea, Germany, Sweden — all at 99 percent) are also the most developed, while the least educated (most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with under 40 percent literates) are the least developed.
Health and education are increasingly being seen as among people's basic rights, right around the world. Policymakers are realising that higher development and economic goals are nigh on impossible to achieve with an ailing and uneducated population.
As the period of transition lengthens, it will be easy for policymakers
to be distracted by petty demands and lose sight of the bigger picture. But it will be a huge mistake to overlook the growing importance of education in the knowledge economy of the 21st century.
Education will be equally important in maintaining peace and stability in the country. Educated people are tolerant people, and more likely to warm to opposing views than those deprived of the inner light of knowledge. Educated people, more often then not, are employed, and less likely to engage in anti-social activities. Educated people are also far less likely to be swayed by political rhetoric and more likely to demand concrete action and hold their elected representatives accountable. In other words, a healthy and educated people will be the future nation builders.
Noble Prize winning economist Amartya Sen could not have put it in better words when he said, in the course of his Commonwealth education conference 2003 speech in Edinburgh, Scotland: “[H.G.] Wells was not exaggerating when he said, in his Outline of History: 'human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' If we continue to leave vast sections of the people of the world outside the orbit of education, we make the world not only less just, but also less secure.”
And so with Nepal. For all these reasons (and so many more impossible to enumerate here) education must remain at the top of government priorities at least as long as all Nepalis are not educated and thus equipped with the capacity to see the right from the wrong. To wit: Only an educated populace can ensure long term peace and stability in Nepal.
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This year's School Leaving Certificate (SLC) results, with 68.47 percent students clearing the exams, is the best ever in the annual exams' 75-year-long history. Though doubts linger about the
underlying reason behind the better-than-expected outcome — regarding the amount and appropriateness of grace marks, for instance — the educationists deserve a pat on the back. Secondary education reform, especially since 2007, when the government introduced the provision of incorporating only questions from the grade 10 syllabus in SLC question papers, has been particularly effective.But not all envisaged reforms have produced the desired results. The much-hyped National Literacy Campaign (NLC) launched by the erstwhile UCPN (Maoist)-led government with the aim of making about 2.6 million Nepalis literate has turned out a damp squib. The Non-Formal Education Centre (NFEC), which has been tasked with overseeing the programme, hasn't even been able to pay the teachers working under its watch.
It was strange that NFEC couldn't put together enough money to fund NLC. Notably, for the current fiscal year, the erstwhile Maoist-led government had set aside Rs. 38.98 billion of the total Rs. 236 billion (U.S. $3.5 billion) national budget for education, which amounts to 16.5 percent of total budget, a massive share of the pie by any standard. (The second biggest cut of Rs 15.58 billion went to health.) This begs the question of where all the money is going.
Nonetheless, the Maoist intent, nicely captured in their budget-related slogan of “New Nepal, Learned Nepal” cannot be doubted. And nor can their aim of providing primary education to 91 percent of all Nepalis by the end of the current fiscal year.
But the sad fact remains that Nepal's adult literacy rate hovers around 50 percent — which means nearly half the populace is still uneducated. More problematically, just 60.6 females are educated for every 100 educated males. To this day, there are enormous social constraints which prevent girls from attending school. Most school-age rural girls are involved with household chores and parents are reluctant to take up the tedious work.
The good news is: even small scholarship schemes amounting to no more than a couple of hundred rupees have proven successful at getting girls to school. The provision of free snacks and food ration in return for sending children to school has also been effective in some parts of the country. The government's bid to educate parents on the importance of education, too, seems to be working.
Overall, there are enough reasons not to cut the education sector's share in next year's budget. Certainly not in one of the least developed countries in the world. It is no coincidence that the countries with the best literacy ratios (U.S., Japan, South Korea, Germany, Sweden — all at 99 percent) are also the most developed, while the least educated (most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa with under 40 percent literates) are the least developed.
Health and education are increasingly being seen as among people's basic rights, right around the world. Policymakers are realising that higher development and economic goals are nigh on impossible to achieve with an ailing and uneducated population.
As the period of transition lengthens, it will be easy for policymakers
to be distracted by petty demands and lose sight of the bigger picture. But it will be a huge mistake to overlook the growing importance of education in the knowledge economy of the 21st century.
Education will be equally important in maintaining peace and stability in the country. Educated people are tolerant people, and more likely to warm to opposing views than those deprived of the inner light of knowledge. Educated people, more often then not, are employed, and less likely to engage in anti-social activities. Educated people are also far less likely to be swayed by political rhetoric and more likely to demand concrete action and hold their elected representatives accountable. In other words, a healthy and educated people will be the future nation builders.
Noble Prize winning economist Amartya Sen could not have put it in better words when he said, in the course of his Commonwealth education conference 2003 speech in Edinburgh, Scotland: “[H.G.] Wells was not exaggerating when he said, in his Outline of History: 'human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.' If we continue to leave vast sections of the people of the world outside the orbit of education, we make the world not only less just, but also less secure.”
And so with Nepal. For all these reasons (and so many more impossible to enumerate here) education must remain at the top of government priorities at least as long as all Nepalis are not educated and thus equipped with the capacity to see the right from the wrong. To wit: Only an educated populace can ensure long term peace and stability in Nepal.
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