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The Unwanted Parcel

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     It was a snowy Saturday morning in the chilly cold month of December somewhere in Dehradun, which was about 241.4 km from Delhi, capital of India. I came here all the way from Lalitpur, Nepal with my parents to travel around Dehradun, a popular tourist destination of India. We also had a plan to visit a Medical College named Dehradun College of Medical Sciences, a renowned college of India, for me to study MBBS in it the following year as I was studying in grade 12 that year. We had rented a small house that belonged to some local rich man. The house was a kilometer away from the college hostel, and we stayed there as we could not find any suitable lodges in the town and those available were quite uncomfortable and dirty. It had been 3 days since we got here. My mother had just ended a phone call with my maternal grandparents, who were in Nepal. They were quite upset that they could not come along with us as the winter in Dehradun was quite unbearable and they w...

Rise and Fall of Stock Market: Rumors Only?

 Today I thought of writing on a prominent topic that is always talked about,  Nepal's Stock Market . Stock Market is a place where the public listed companies are traded. It is a public venue where individuals or group of people buy and share the shares of the public listed companies that have issued shares. The price of each shares of companies rise and fall based on their demand and the traded price. Stock Exchange can be future savings, investments for greater returns as well as job for some.  The companies that cross a capital or are just established issue Initial Public Offering(IPO) which are simply the small shares of that company. These IPOs usually cost 100 NRs., but some might issue for 10 NRs. each. The interested individuals apply for different number of shares. However the shares offered by the company remains constant due to which we often encounter online news that the IPO has been applied 3, 4,5,6... times more than it was decided to be issued.  Then...