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@KanakManiDixit नेपालीमा alphabet song नभएर पनि यो समस्या भएको हो। छोरीलाई सिकाउन मैले बनाएको नेपाली वर्णमाला गीत यहाँ छ। मन परे share गरिदिनुहोला @kedarsh

Haaretz reports that the Israeli defence minister has ordered the IDF to flatten towns as they did in Gaza - The EU will probably condemn Lebanon soon

INSANE: CCTV footage shows hundreds of Israeli settlers storming the village of Jalud in the West Bank before launching their pogrom, attacking Palestinian homes and setting them on fire in an attempt to burn people alive.

Israel's Defense Minister said the IDF will do to towns in Southern Lebanon what the IDF did to Gaza's Rafah and Beit Hanoun: total, complete, indiscriminate destruction ("flattened"):

For all their invocations of scripture, it looks like they haven't even read the Hebrew Bible. Otherwise they'd know the story of King David and the Prophet Nathan. It goes like this: "King David slept with Uriah's wife and got her pregnant, then had Uriah sent to die in battle to cover it up. The Prophet Nathan tells David a parable about a rich man who steals a poor man's only lamb. David is outraged: 'That man deserves to die!' Nathan replies: 'You are that man.'"

A friend in Cuba just notified me that every single patient in that hospital that was on ventilators died tonight. I don’t have words.

"Israel has crushed Unrwa in Gaza – and the rest of the world has done nothing" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Trump killed every child in this video. Every. Single. One. Not combatants. Not militants. Schoolkids from Minab, Iran.

Israel slaughtered 15 aid workers in Gaza, buried their bodies so nobody would know, lied about it, and only got caught because they forget to steal one of the victims' cell phones, and he recorded the entire massacre. Israel also did this:

Lebanese medics adopting strategies ‘coz they know they are targets: — Not seeing family or friends—> if they are bombed, they don’t take their loved ones with them — Reducing team sizes — Sleeping in ambulances far away from each other so a single strike doesn’t kill them all

What are seeing now unfolding before our very eyes is an ethnic cleansing operation on a larger scale than the Nakba. More than one million people - some 20 percent of the Lebanese population - forcibly displaced, a war crime under international law. The Greater I$rael project in action. They have called it many things over the years, but this is an imperialist land grab that won’t stop at the south of Lebanon. They’d hoist the Zi0nist flag over Beirut if it wasn’t for the resistance.

Israel is detaining children without charge in record numbers, a rights group has said, subjecting them to hellish conditions that include beatings, the denial of food and water and other forms of torture. New figures from the Israel Prison Service show that of 351 child detainees, 51% are held in so-called “administrative detention”, where people are imprisoned indefinitely without having committed a crime on the grounds that they intend to break the law. The rights group Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) said on Wednesday that this is both the highest number and the highest percentage on record since it began monitoring these figures in 2008. “These numbers come at a time when Palestinian children consistently report appalling and debilitating conditions within Israeli detention facilities,” the group said. This includes being denied “adequate food and water, being subjected to beatings and verbal harassment, lacking access to medical care, and being subjected to torture, including the use of solitary confinement.” The IPS figures for child detainees do not include those who are held in military detention or interrogation centres, which are separate from the prison service. “There is no available data for the number of children or adults detained at these sites,” the group said, “though DCIP has gathered firsthand testimonies from previously detained children describing systematic torture and dehumanising conditions.” For those held in the prison system, their lawyers are “forbidden from passing on simple messages from families, and children who wish to pass along messages to their families”. Under Israel’s apartheid system, being charged is not a reliable indicator that a Palestinian has committed a crime. In 2024, a UN agency said Palestinians had been coerced into falsely confessing to links to Hamas. The Israeli rights group B’Tselem said in January that Israel runs a network of torture camps where thousands of Palestinians are subjected to a “living hell” – and that the country’s political, media and legal institutions are complicit in maintaining them.

Does Lebanon have the right to exist?

अमेरिकी सिनेटर बर्नी स्यान्डर्सले एन्थ्रोपिक कम्पनीको ए आई एजेन्ट क्लड सँग गरेको एआईबाट व्यक्तिगत गोपनीयता र प्रजातन्त्रलाई हुने खतरा बारेको यो वार्ताः

Lebanese cellist Mahdi Saheli playing Armenian composer Aram Khachaturian's Andantino in the ruins of southern Beirut.

Fixed it for you @Reuters.

Iran has kept the Straight of Hormuz toll-free for decades despite being vilified, sanctioned, and Isolated. Egypt charges $300,000 – $700,000+ per transit through the Suez Canal. Ultra-large container ships or tankers can exceed $1 million. Panama charges $150,000 – $450,000 per transit. Large Neopanamax ships cost up to $500,000+ to pass the Panama Canal. Turkey charges fees for the Bosporus Strait. Canada charges fees for the St Lawrence Seaway. The United States charges for the St Lawrence Seaway. But Iran is a bad country.

The uncovering has begun. If only more EU governments showed the resolve of Slovenia. Forward and upward. #DecolonizeMultilateralism

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Imagine you’re a Palestinian, sitting outside your home, trying to find a moment of peace in a place your family has lived for generations. Suddenly, Israeli settlers appear, assaulting you, backed by the army. A scene that is hard to put into words.

@swarsirohiya @AnupKaphle Sorry for trying to be funny again with a dull example maybe. But just wanted to share where I am re: use of AI. At this point at least, I probably will not care to read anything written by AI in journalism.

@swarsirohiya @AnupKaphle to love his lady who shows brilliant AI skills sitting on her laptop & making robots do amazing things in the fields.😀 But I guess even fans of AI will set their red line as to authenticity & originality somewhere. Using AI is also shown to be bad for personal cognitive skills.

For years, as pointed out in extensive detail by the recent article in Kantipur, Nepali cricket was synonymous with uncertainty, delayed payments, broken promises, and a system that struggled to match the passion of its players. Those issues were real, and yes they deserved scrutiny. But to suggest that this is still the defining reality of Nepali cricket today is is misleading. The emergence of the Nepal Premier League (NPL) marks a structural shift. In a remarkably short span, the league has evolved into an ecosystem greater than a NPR 100 crore economy, with professional contracts, organized team structures, and growing commercial traction. What’s also important to understand is the risk being absorbed by team owners. Not a single franchise is turning a profit today. In fact, collectively, teams are estimated to be taking on losses in the range of NPR 40–50 crore. That is long-term capital being deployed to build a sports economy from scratch. Something Nepal has never had at this scale. At the player level, the change is even more profound. Domestic cricketers, many of whom once struggled for basic match payments, have gone on record describing how the NPL has: •Enabled them to earn a sustainable living from cricket •Delivered record compensation levels •Accelerated endorsement and brand opportunities •In some cases, even allowed them to build homes and secure financial stability International star players, too, have publicly praised the professionalism and management of the NPL, often comparing it favorably to other emerging leagues. This is what progress looks like. And yet, the narrative risks being pulled backward. There is a growing tendency to frame the ecosystem through a purely grievance-driven lens—highlighting past failures without acknowledging present transformation. This kind of framing risks shaping perception. And perception, especially in global sport, is everything. If the dominant takeaway becomes: “Nepal = unreliable, unpaid, chaotic” then the consequences are: •International players hesitate •Agents price in risk •Sponsors pull back •League credibility suffers This is not about avoiding criticism. There are still issues that need urgent attention. Government processes around approving payments to international players remain slow, and there is persistent confusion around taxation frameworks. These are real bottlenecks that need to be streamlined and prioritized if Nepal is serious about building a globally competitive league. But criticism without context misleads. Building a league like the NPL is not the responsibility of CAN alone. It is a collective effort: •Teams investing capital despite losses •Players committing to professionalism •Fans creating demand and energy •And yes, media shaping the narrative I understand that the role of media is not to act as a cheerleader; but neither should it become a force of deconstruction when something is genuinely working. Nepal does not have many globally scalable success stories. Cricket, through the NPL, is emerging as one of them. It deserves rigorous journalism. But it also deserves a recognition of progress. Because if we undermine our own momentum at this stage, we won’t just be telling the wrong story but we’ll be slowing down the right one. A better headline would’ve been “Nepal Cricket’s Turnaround from Unpaid Chaos to Record Contracts” ekantipur.com/sports/2026/03…