The programs were launched during a press conference on Monday, i.e., August 9, 2021.

The new AI Courses Include:

• Bachelor of Technology in Artificial Intelligence (BTech AI)
• Master of Technology in Artificial Intelligence (MTech AI)

According to the KU university, the classes for both the courses will officially begin with the September 2021 admission.

“Kathmandu University is providing these two degrees in response to the growing need for artificial intelligence expertise and employees both globally and nationally,” said Prof. Dr. Manish Pokharel, Dean of the School of Engineering.

“The programs are the first of their kind in Nepal.”

“We are glad to extend a platform to obtain bachelor’s and master’s degrees in such specialized fields, and we think that it will meet the country’s demands in terms of producing AI professionals,” he added.

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The 12^th edition of the international beauty pageant is being held in Poland, with the grand finale on August 21, 2021, in Strzelecki Park Amphitheater.

Shimal from Nepal will be competing with other sixty international beauties for the coveted title of Miss Supranational 2021.

The 24-years-old Shimal has been crowned as ‘Miss Supranational 2020’ at the grand finale of Miss Nepal 2020 hosted at Kathmandu on December 5, 2020.

The Kathmandu-based model has graduated from the Kathmandu University of Management and aspires to be an entrepreneur.

This is the third participation from the Himalayan nation at Miss Supranational. Mahima Singh in 2018 and Rose Lama in 2019 represented Nepal at the international event.

Earlier, the edition of the event was scheduled at the end of 2020 but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“Miss Supranational 2021 is scheduled for August 21, 2021,” announced Gerhard Parzutka von Lipinski, the President of Miss and Mister Supranational.

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The apex court in its order May 17 ordered the Tribhuvan University to allow the 32 Indian students from appearing in their annual examinations, observing that they had cleared the Indian government-conducted National Eligibility cum Entrance Test, which meant that they had fulfilled the criterion set by Nepal Medical Council under the MBBS programme.

The students, who are pursuing MBBS at Nepal’s Janaki Devi Medical college affiliated to the Tribhuvan University, were to appear for their annual examination on December 20 last year.

However, they were not allowed to appear in the exams citing none of them had cleared an entrance conducted by the Institute of Medicine, the paper reported on Saturday.

The students filed a case but then the apex court had denied staying the TU’s order, saying the exam had already started.

However, the apex court on Friday ordered the university to allow the students from appearing in their annual examination.

The court said that foreign students pursuing their MBBS studies at Kathmandu University were being allowed to appear for exams and hence, it would be unfair to bar the students from appearing in the exam, the paper reported.

Source: Business Standard

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Well, Nepal has a book title like that! The title has been written by Nepal’s Srijan Timilsina in Kathmandu and contains 1,809 words including 11,284 characters!

The book was inaugurated at Kathmandu University. Timilsina achieved this record on February 19, 2019.

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The supercomputer will majorly help in the analysis of health and administrative sector’s databases in Nepal.

In June 2018, CERN computing centre donated 200 servers to Kathmandu University (KU) including 184 CPU servers, 16 disk servers, and 12 network switches.

CERN donates equipment that it doesn’t require anymore. Hence, the company has donated a total of 2079 servers, 123 network switches to countries and international organizations including Pakistan, Philippines, Serbia, Senegal, Mexico and now Nepal.

These computing components were used to create the high-performance computing facility for research and education purposes in Nepal.

The supercomputer can be used for analyzing data of earthquakes, climate change, controlling H1N1 virus, genetic diseases, tracking pollution, identifying the hydro-electric potential of various rivers and more.

Lack of Infrastructure in KU

KU is Nepal’s second largest university but lacking research-specific infrastructure and resources. Following this insufficiency, the KU School of Medicine deletes medical imaging data because due to inadequate disk storage space.

The loss of data makes it difficult to screen diseases or conduct population health studies. Likewise, R&D projects in science and engineering schools rely heavily on foreign resources or online data transfer which is very slow for large amounts of data. With the help of this supercomputer, Nepal will now be able to fill its missing gaps of research and data and deliver quality services in the fields of health, science, and education.

Nepal now has the fastest supercomputer in South Asia, after India!

After its foray into satellite technology, this is Nepal’ second achievement in the technological sector.

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The master’s degree program, a joint initiative of KU and the Institute for Integrated Development Studies in Dhulikhel, will be incorporated in humanities, management and law departments, effective from 2019. 

Speaking at the launch event, experts from various backgrounds expressed their opinions on the proposed program. 

In his address, Dr Mohan Man Sainju, former Vice-chairman of Nepal Planning Commission (NPC), said the local resources should be used accordingly and courses of this kind engage youth in policy making. 

Meanwhile, former Health Minister Gagan Thapa said there has been a need for interdisciplinary approach in social sciences and hoped that the program would fill the existing gaps and produce better policy makers to the nation.   

The local governments are in dire need of manpower with knowledge of public policy making. Local bodies should encourage their employees to study public policy, says Gagan Thapa. 

Lauding the initiative, the US Ambassador to Nepal Alaina B Teplitz also opined that the initiative would improve public policy dialogue in the country.  

 “Good public policy helps leaders to take better decisions,” she said, adding improving governance would is also an art that determines the country’s future. 

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The Information Technology park in Banepa is witnessing an increased activity with the infrastructure being set up by Kathmandu University (KU) and two private companies, Cloud Himalaya and Soft Tech foundation. The park, which is the only IT hub in Nepal, had remained unoccupied until recently though it was established by the government way back in 2013.

With the government giving a go-ahead to the Memoranda of Understanding signed by the three parties separately with the Department of Information Technology, the stakeholders are moving ahead with their plans.

Dr. Manish Pokharel, chief of KU’s computer department, said that their three priorities would be latest research, business incubation and setting up of a finishing school. He added that a Smart City Research Center would soon be established at the park.

Soft Tech, which focuses on software development and exports, will employ 20 IT professionals in the first phase. On similar lines, Cloud Himalaya, which would establish and operate a data center at the park, will initially provide jobs to 60 IT professionals.

Representatives from local bodies and various other organizations were invited to a public program organized at the park to familiarize them with the working of the facility and its positive impact towards the development of Banepa.

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