Author: Nilanshu Basnet

The COVID-19 pandemic-induced lockdowns, as well as the resulting worldwide recession in 2020, have cast a cloud over the labour market and hastened the coming of the future of work. This article is based on “The Future of Jobs Report 2020” from the World Economic Forum which includes Jobs that are in growing demand. The combined health and economic shocks of 2020 have sent economies into freefall, disrupted labour markets, and fully revealed the inadequacies of our social contracts, after years of growing income inequality, concerns about technology-driven job displacement, and rising societal discord around the world. Key Findings The…

Oho Cake, which was founded in 2021, is a platform for online cake delivery service (currently available in Kathmandu valley) that specializes in delivering a wide variety of delicious cakes for all occasions. Some of its specialities include chocolate cakes, crunchy butterscotch cakes, designer cakes, photo cakes, micro cakes, jar cakes, and more. Mr. Santosh Pandey, Co-Founder of Offering Happiness, Nepal’s largest gifting platform pioneering in experiential gifting, surprise planning & corporate gifting is also associated with OHO Cake as a Co-Founder and Director of the company. According to reports, the worldwide bakery market was worth approximately USD 14.07 billion in…

Khalti Digital Wallet, a Nepalese online payment service provider, has introduced the ability to make EMI (Equated Monthly Installment) payments online via Khalti in conjunction with Jagadamba Motors, the official dealer of TVS Vehicles in Nepal. Khalti is one of the popular digital wallets and payment gateway in Nepal, which was founded in 2017. Khalti’s 1.9 million users can use it to recharge their phones, watch TV, pay their internet bills, insurance premiums, Government Revenues, Waste Management Bills, and buy domestic travel tickets, among other things. In the midst of COVID, Khalti launched the service to encourage customers to make…

BMUCO has announced that in collaboration with the Chern Institute of Mathematics at Nankai University, their advisor Prof Yang-Hui He has invited the 2020 Nobel Laureate Professor Sir Roger Penrose to give a talk titled “Space-Time Singularities and Cyclic Geometry” this Saturday 7th August at 3:45-4:45 PM NPT. Professor Penrose is widely considered as one of his generation’s outstanding mathematical physicists. He is most known for his work on singularities with Professor Stephen Hawking, for which he was given the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2020 “for the discovery that black hole development is a robust prediction of general relativity.”…

LOFA (Literacy of Finance for All) is a high school student-run group that aims to increase Nepal’s financial literacy and establish itself as a “Network of Future Entrepreneurs”. LOFA works to raise awareness and promote high-quality economic, business, and financial literacy knowledge throughout Nepal. After multiple planning, meetings and debates, LOFA has come up with an Open Essay Competition with the goal of including the country’s youths in a once-in-a-lifetime event and providing them with a forum to express their ideas and explain their thoughts on critical financial subjects. This Open Essay Competition is an English language competition in which contestants…

IME Pay and Cycle City Network Nepal (Green Way) have agreed to promote cycling as a means of achieving sustainable development, healthy lifestyle, and a clean city in Nepal. The participants will be paid Rs. 3 for each 1 km bicycle journey, using IME Pay as the payment partner. Greenway App will now accept payments via IME Pay. Thanks to a partnership between Cycle City Network Nepal (Greenway) and IME Digital Solutions Limited. Speaking on the occasion, Amod Bhattarai, Chief Business Manager of IME Digital Solutions Ltd., expressed his support for Cycle City Network Nepal’s (Green Way) Cycle Travel Promotion…

To minimize the effects of the Coronavirus on the national economy, both Hotel Association Nepal and the Visit Nepal Year 2020 Secretariat expect full collaboration and support from the Government of Nepal, the Nepal Tourism Board, and other interested authorities. Meanwhile, Analogue Inc has formed a strategic relationship with the Paschimanchal Hotel Association of Pokhara to give a chance to reconsider the management of Nepal’s tourist business in the middle of the COVID-19 issue. The COVID-19 epidemic has influenced economies, lives, public services, and opportunities all around the world, and tourism is one of the most affected businesses. However, in…

Noodle, a Nepalese startup, is an online store where you can buy music and products from your favourite performers, as well as review communities and crowdfunding to help them achieve their goals. Music has always been an important part of our everyday life, but the manner in which they are consumed has changed with the growth of technology. New musicians can now get their music in front of millions of people through streaming platforms. Current digital technology, aided by the internet’s power, has made a wide range of music collections available at one’s fingertips. Many existing/new streaming firms have joined…

TikTok recently initiated a program called “TikTok Resumes” that allows users to apply to employers directly using video resumes. TikTok Resumes is a video resume platform created to assist members of its community (i.e. Users) who are seeking work. TikTok encourages its users to make a digital video resume or elevator pitch instead of a typical paper resume. TikTok has also collaborated with brands that have decided to accept TikTok resumes as part of their onboarding process. For this opening, which runs until July 31, more than 30 firms have signed up to collect resumes. To view firms that are…

Industry experts, systems architects, developers, and others have been debating the optimal strategy for developing mobile apps. The main dilemma is whether developing many single-purpose app or one multi-purpose app makes more sense. A multi-purpose app, like a department shop, contains everything the user needs in one location. On the other hand, single-purpose applications are more like to boutiques in that they are only meant to do one thing. Many individuals across the world use smartphones as their primary internet connection point. Rising trend of All-in-one/Super App A new trend of “Super Apps” has emerged from China in the last…