The General Theory of Relativity has completely changed our understandings of the Universe. It is one of the towering achievements of the 20th-century physics. It explains that the force of gravity arises from the curvature of space and time.
By Dr. A.B. Thapa Dec 09, 2017
Our biggest success in dealing with India is the revision of the Kosi Treaty in 1966. The 1966 Revised Kosi Treaty has granted our country absolute right to use entire Sun-Kosi and Kosi river waters for coming 199 years without prejudice to existing (Hanumannagar Kosi barrage project) as well as future uses in India.
By Dr. A.B. Thapa Sep 10, 2017
Needless to say that apart from serious environmental degradation and loss of valuable agricultural lands the diversion of water into Terai for irrigation would result to significant reduction in hydropower potential of the hill region
By Dr. A.B. Thapa Jun 25, 2017
The proposed Burhi-Gandaki dam will be in one of the most seismically active areas of the world. The dam site is very close to the epicenter of very recent Gorkha earthquake measured 7.9 in Richter scale. This type of dams is highly sensitive to e
By Dr. A.B. Thapa Mar 10, 2017
The controversy over provincial boundaries of our country might have been easily resolved if the people would have been clearly explained that the detachment from mountain region would be suicidal to Terai. Needless to say that a great majority of
By Dr. A.B. Thapa Jan 07, 2017
It is necessary to implement Sun-Kosi and Kosi storage dam projects to save the life and property of millions living in Sunsari and Morang districts of our country and also north-east Bihar.This calls for great sacrifice of the people living in
By Dr. A.B. Thapa Jun 23, 2016
At present Nepal is reeling from acute shortage of electric power. Most of our industries are on the verge of collapse. People are facing great hardship due to long hours of load -shedding. Entire country is now pushed to an extreme desperate situa
By Dr. A.B. Thapa Jun 02, 2016
On one hand Nepal is acutely suffering from frequent unavailability of petroleum products, on the other hand our immediate northern neighbor the Tibet might soon be going to be world’s one of the biggest producers of petroleum products.
By Dr. A.B. Thapa Nov 07, 2015
The second constituent assembly election was truly a referendum on ethnicity based agenda. Nepalese people including those living in Terai had overwhelmingly voted against it. Unfortunately, this issue is again being raised. Very recently this issue
By Dr. A.B. Thapa Oct 16, 2015
The second constituent assembly election was truly a referendum on ethnicity based agenda. Nepalese people including those living in Terai had overwhelmingly voted against it. Unfortunately, this issue is again being raised. Very recently this issue
By Dr. A.B. Thapa Oct 15, 2015
We have already witnessed enormous loss of life and property in 2008 breach of Kosi embankment when the flood discharge was only about 1 ½ lack cusecs, where-as extremely high flood discharge of almost nine lacks cusecs have already been measured
By Dr. A.B. Thapa Sep 25, 2015
Nepal is intending to build in future high dam projects that will be having very big storage reservoirs to regulate river flow. Large areas of lands would be devastated with great loss of life and property if any such storage dams collapsed during
By Dr. A.B. Thapa May 22, 2015
Kosi river known as the sorrow of Bihar in the past had shifted from east to west over 70 miles within a period of 200 years. The shifting of the river course was accompanied by big loss of life and property. However, the embankments built abou
By Dr. A.B. Thapa Mar 06, 2015
Karnali river flows from the proposed dam site in the south-east direction for about 25 kilometers, after that the river makes a complete reversal in its direction. The river comes back to a point just two kilometers away from its earlier position
By Dr. A.B. Thapa Nov 07, 2014