Ingress Mission Day on 17th October

The official global event of the "real life game" was organized on 16 different cities with participation of over 3500 agents. Glad to say, Kathmandu was also one of them with 12 missions of which 6 has to be completed to get a mission badge. The missions which will also be available in future were live few hours ahead with NTB logo at the bottom. #MissionDay was aimed to provide new high quality Missions in collaboration with local tourism boards for everyone to discover the city together.

The event on Kathmandu was organized on Basantapur area and started at around 11:30 AM and the team started hacking portals. It was real interesting to play the game and also exploring some places which I had not visited before. Most of us completed 6 missions and had a good time on a nearby restaurant with lunch and talks.

It was nice to be a member of a good community with awesome tech people. I am very thankful Samit bro for helping me to understand stuffs while playing/completing the missions.

I couldn't stay quite as it was very interesting and also a way to explorer new places. Visit to Boudhanath stupa area and Pashupati on the next day helped to get to level 3 and currently I'm near to next level. My first attack to The Enlightened was on Chabahil Stupa and second on Pashupati but couldn't get that completed.

About Ingress:
Its is an augmented-reality GPS based game with google maps based interface created by Niantic Labs which has a complex science fiction. The game takes place in the real world so you have to get out of the house to play. It could be a good way to get rid of distraction from engagement in the real world because of social media and video games.

The players need to visit landmarks which are called portals that could be sculptures, public parks, and famous attractions, local heritages. There are two sides: The Resistance(Blue) and The Enlightened(Green) both of which tend to ‘capture’ the portals for their side.

The Resistance seek to battle the forces struggling to protect humanity and preserve freedom whereas The Enlightened who seek to evolve mankind to a higher level with actions to uplift humanity with physical presence in the real world. You can choose either side only once and start rocking with in-game badges and explore portals you’ve never visited before.

You can also join Ingress Nepal via Facebook, Twitter, Google+ or newly launched website: ingressnepal.org.

It was last day of 3rd year of Engineering and with some special-ness because of final defense of project. Presentation, reports, demonstration all turned out well and there was something to do as farewell. After spending an hour discussing about future projects and other relevant talks, we decided to go nearby cinema hall and watch which ever the movie is there as none of us were familiar with current playlist.

This week, we celebrated the third anniversary of of Mozilla Nepal at Sap Falcha with lots of open source & open web enthusiasts. We thank all our members, contributors and well wishers for their continued support.

The 18th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) concluded in Nepal's Capital Kathmandu with high expectation but less outcome. Though the three agenda namely energy, rail and road got more highlights in the 2014 summit held after three years but only energy agreement has been signed up after Pakistan, the second largest member country in SAARC opposed, citing of its internal issues which made the inter-connectivity between SAARC countries indefinite.


The energy agreement has laid background to share electricity among the member nations through a common grid which seems to be helpful to Nepal in paving way for the electrical energy development which is facing half-a-day load shedding in winter.

The recent SAARC Summit had much more expectation not only because of participation of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi, but also of the growing relation between the 8 Asian countries which turned out to be a "Flop Show" with happy ending of handshaking of PM of India and Pakistan in City Hall in the capital.
On the other hand, Nepal seems to be proud for hosting the mega meeting successfully with well decorated $20 Million facelift of Kathmandu and without any unexpected circumstances during the meetup. Also, Indian PM handed over a helicopter and inaugurated Trauma Center whose construction was completed years ago with Indian Government's financial assistance apart from the soil testing mobile van.

With member nations Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and recently added Afghanistan, SAARC is dominated by rivalry between Pakistan and India which split over in the 18th edition of the meeting. The issue of adding permanent members in the club remained silent with none of member heads got straight on the issue though Nepal's Prime Minister Sushil Koirala was expected to take lead of bringing China inside which currently is the observer and had shown interest over the subject promising  $30 Billion investment in infrastructure development and 10,000 scholarships for young South Asians.

The meeting themed “Deeper Integration for Peace and Prosperity” held on 26-27 November made no major breakthroughs with no concrete decision relating to terrorism, health, poverty and economy. Even the medias gave much highlights to the meet between heads of India and Pakistan who could not have concrete talks on any important case. SAARC has been on controversy since 30 years for not being an effective club rather than the occasional meetups for mingling with each other which repeated this time too with lack of trust among the member nations.


The remaining two issues related to road and rail are scheduled to be discussed on foreign ministers meeting which will be held six month later whereas the next 19th meetup is set to be held in Pakistan in 2019. So, don't you think the 18th SAARC Summit was a "Flop Show"?

Civil & Agricultural Engineering (CA) seems to be the first choice of the students which marks about 56 percent of the total candidates. The number is usual because of higher number of seats for Bachelor in Civil Engineering (BCE) in the BE entrance exam too. The second choice is Electronics and Computer Engineering for which 343 students submitted the online form for entrance exam. The stream includes subject mattes of Electrical Circuit and System, Electronics Circuit and System, Computer Architecture, Communication System, Object Oriented Programming Languages and Discrete Structure in the entrance exam curriculum.

The other streams share the percentage as:Electrical(11%), Mechanical and Industrial(4%), Planning and Architecture(6%). Only 8 students preferred Disaster and Planning whereas Applied Science became the choice of just 4 students.

The number of female applicants are seven times less than male applicants which counts 1398 that makes 85% of the total applicants.

We are analyzing some more data and will update soon.

The result of IOE Masters Entrance exam is scheduled to be published on 20th of Kartik-2071 (6th November 2014).

The above study is based on the data sheet of applicants for Msc Entrance Exam 2071 published by Tribhuvan University, Institute of Engineering, Entrance Exam Board, Chakupat, Lalitpur.

For the preparation of upcoming SAARC summit in Kathmandu, most of the major streets are equipped with solar lights on the way from Tribhuvan International Airport to Maitighar, Thapathali to Soaltee Mode, Maitighar to City Hall and Tundikhel to Ranipokhari, Tripureshwor to Jamal. The government has spent about Rs 680 million for city beautification project.