Author: Himalaya Post

Kathmandu – Food for Life Nepal (FFLN) is a non-profit, non-governmental trust registered under the District Administration Office,  Kathmandu, Nepal in 2015 AD. With an aim of breaking the vicious chains of malnourishment and illiteracy, this organization is continuously working daily to provide children with the right nutrition to support their education. The works of FFLN are inspired by Srila Prabhupada. In 1974, he happened to look out of his room at ISKCON temple in Mayapur, West Bengal of India and saw a group of village children fighting with stray dogs over scraps of food. Astonished and disheartened by what he saw, Srila Prabhupada turned to his disciples and said, ‘No one within 10 miles radius of our temple should go hungry.’ Motivated by the powerful impacts his works made ever since that year in different states of India, involving projects like ‘Annamrita’ and ‘Akshaya Patra’, the initial team of FFLN in 2014, happened to visit a government school named ‘Budhanilkantha Secondary School’ for a survey and found 18 children sleeping in a classroom with a teacher casually sitting on his chair. When the teacher was asked why he wasn’t teaching, he mentioned that even though he wants to teach, he couldn’t because the children have no energy to study nor play due to lack of food. This touched their hearts and, in a quest to solve this issue,...

The family of Dinesh Bhatt, accused in the murder case of 17-year-old Bhagarathi Bhatt of Chadepani in Baitadi-Dogadakedar Village Municipality-7, has claimed that he was innocent. His family has claimed that he was a 16-year-old son who was made public as an accused by the police on March 19. Deepak Raj, the father of  charged person, said that his son was trapped by threatening him. According to him, the teenager was forced to confess after two men pressured his son to confess. “I was threatened to kill your father and brother if I did not kill you,” he told a news conference in Mahendranagar on Sunday, quoting his son. I know the other one well, they are the technical staff of Dogadakedar village. ‘ According to Deepak Raj, his son had witnessed the incident on the way home from school on January 6. One of the two involved in the incident had put a knife to his throat and threatened not to divulge the matter. “Your father and brother have gone to the hospital. They have threatened to kill them if they say anything,” he said after returning to meet his son. “That’s why he says he has confessed to the crime.” His youngest son Vinod is mentally retarded. A few days before the incident, his right arm was also broken. Deepak Raj used to come to Dadeldhura regularly...