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के तपाईंलाई थाहा छ? बेलायतले नयाँ पुस्तालाई लक्षित गर्दै ऐतिहासिक कानुन ल्याएको छ जसले चुरोट किन्न पूर्ण रूपमा बन्देज लगाउँछ।

बेलायतको संसदले हालै पारित गरेको 'टोबाको एन्ड भेप्स बिल' अनुसार, १ जनवरी २००९ वा त्यसपछि जन्मेका कुनै पनि व्यक्तिले आफ्नो जीवनकालमा कहिल्यै कानुनी रूपमा सुर्तीजन्य पदार्थ वा चुरोट किन्न पाउने छैनन्। यो नीतिले सन् २०२७ देखि हरेक वर्ष चुरोट किन्न पाउने कानुनी उमेर एक वर्षका दरले बढाउँदै लैजानेछ, जसले गर्दा नयाँ पुस्ता 'धुम्रपानमुक्त' हुने सुनिश्चित गर्दछ।

यस कानुनको मुख्य विशेषता भनेको युवाहरूलाई धुम्रपान गर्ने अपराधमा जेल हाल्ने होइन, बरु उनीहरूलाई चुरोट बेच्ने खुद्रा व्यापारी वा पसलहरूलाई कडा जरिवाना र कारबाही गर्नु हो। साथै, युवाहरूलाई आकर्षित गर्ने भेप (V**e) का रंगीन प्याकेजिङ र विभिन्न स्वादहरूमा पनि कडा नियन्त्रण गरिनेछ। स्वास्थ्य प्रणाली (NHS) मा पर्ने ठुलो आर्थिक भार कम गर्न र जनस्वास्थ्य सुधार गर्न चालिएको यो विश्वकै सबैभन्दा कडा कानुनी कदममध्ये एक हो।

यस ऐतिहासिक निर्णयले विश्वभरका नीति निर्माताहरूलाई गम्भीर भएर सोच्न बाध्य बनाएको छ। के नेपालले पनि युवा पुस्तालाई कुलतबाट बचाउन यस्तै दीर्घकालीन र प्रभावकारी स्वास्थ्य नीति अपनाउने समय आएको हो?

यस कठोर तर ऐतिहासिक कदमको बारेमा तपाईंको विचार के छ?

च्याटबटको जमाना अब सकियो। अहिलेको मुख्य प्रतिस्पर्धा 'सोच्ने क्षमता' कसले बनाउने भन्नेमा छ। अमेजनको खर्बौं लगानीसँगै, एन्थ्रोपिकले कसरी विश्वको प्राविधिक पूर्वाधार र नियमहरू नियन्त्रण गर्दैछ?

विश्वको ध्यान च्याटजीपीटी (ChatGPT) र ओपनएआई (OpenAI) मा केन्द्रित छ, तर पर्दा पछाडि 'एन्थ्रोपिक' (Anthropic) ले एआईको नयाँ साम्राज्य खडा गर्दैछ। यो अब केवल सर्वसाधारणले चलाउने एउटा च्याटबटको कुरा होइन; यो भविष्यको "थिंकिङ लेयर" (Thinking Layer) अर्थात् निर्णय लिने प्रणाली कसले नियन्त्रण गर्ने भन्ने ठूलो भूराजनीतिक र आर्थिक लडाइँ हो।

यहाँ तपाईँले जान्नैपर्ने ४ प्रमाणित तथ्यहरू छन्:

१. अमेजनसँगको ऐतिहासिक पूर्वाधार सम्झौता
एन्थ्रोपिकले अमेजनबाट २५ अर्ब डलरसम्मको लगानी सुनिश्चित गरेको छ। तर सबैभन्दा ठूलो कुरा, यसको बदलामा एन्थ्रोपिकले आगामी १० वर्षमा अमेजनको क्लाउड पूर्वाधारमा १०० अर्ब डलरभन्दा बढी खर्च गर्नेछ। यो सफ्टवेयरको मात्र खेल रहेन, यो हार्डवेयर र शक्तिशाली 'कम्प्युटिङ पावर' (Trainium silicon) को एकाधिकार हो।

२. कर्पोरेट क्षेत्र र प्रणालीमा एन्थ्रोपिकको राज
एन्थ्रोपिकको वार्षिक आम्दानी १९ अर्बदेखि ३० अर्ब डलरको बीचमा पुग्ने वित्तीय रिपोर्टहरूले देखाएका छन्। उनीहरूले ठूला कर्पोरेट कम्पनीहरूका लागि १०० मिलियन डलरको इकोसिस्टम बनाएका छन्। अहिले प्रमुख तीनवटै क्लाउड प्रोभाइडर (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft) मा उपलब्ध हुने यो एक मात्र फ्रन्टियर मोडल (Claude) हो।

३. 'सुरक्षा' नै सबैभन्दा ठूलो संस्थागत हतियार
एन्थ्रोपिक एक 'पब्लिक-बेनेफिट कर्पोरेसन' (PBC) हो, जसले कानुनी रूपमै नाफा र जनहितलाई सन्तुलनमा राख्नुपर्छ। अमेरिकी र बेलायती एआई सुरक्षा निकायहरूको कडा परीक्षण (Responsible Scaling Policy) पछि मात्र उनीहरूले नयाँ मोडल सार्वजनिक गर्छन्। यही कारणले विश्वका ठूला सरकार र वित्तीय संस्थाहरूले यसलाई सबैभन्दा सुरक्षित मानेका छन्।

४. आउँदै गरेको ठूलो आईपीओ (IPO) र सुरक्षा फन्ड
एन्थ्रोपिकको शेयर प्रि-आईपीओ (Pre-IPO) मार्केटमै उच्च मूल्यमा कारोबार भइरहेको छ। रोचक कुरा के छ भने, यसका सात जना संस्थापकहरूले आफ्नो सम्पत्तिको ८०% हिस्सा एआई सुरक्षामा दान गर्ने घोषणा गरेका छन्। यसको मतलब, भविष्यमा हुने यसको आईपीओले विश्वको एआई नीति र नियमनलाई नै परिवर्तन गर्न खर्बौं डलर बजारमा ल्याउनेछ।

अबको दशकमा जसले एआईको पूर्वाधार र सुरक्षा नीति नियन्त्रण गर्छ, उसैले विश्वको अर्थतन्त्र चलाउनेछ। एन्थ्रोपिक च्याटबट मात्र नभएर नयाँ युगको डिजिटल पूर्वाधार बन्दैछ।

HE SMOKED W**D ON HIS PRIVATE JET BOUGHT $80 MILLION IN REAL ESTATE AND CALLED IT A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY.

WeWork was a company that rented office space and sublet it to startups and freelancers with nice furniture and free beer. That's the business. That's all it was.

Adam Neumann convinced the investing world that it was something else entirely. He called WeWork a 'physical social network.' He talked about elevating the world's consciousness. He said the company's valuation was driven by energy and spirituality, not desks.

SoftBank invested $18.5 billion. At its peak, WeWork was valued at $47 billion, making it the most valuable startup in the United States.

When WeWork filed for its IPO in 2019, investors finally had to read the S-1 document. What they found was staggering. The company had lost $1.9 billion the previous year on revenues of $1.8 billion. Neumann had borrowed $380 million against his own shares. He had personally trademarked the word 'We' and then charged WeWork $5.9 million to use it — his own company paid him millions for a word. He used company money on a private jet and reportedly had an endorsement deal for a surfboard company written into his employment contract.

The IPO was pulled. The valuation cratered from $47 billion to under $8 billion within weeks. Neumann was pushed out. SoftBank paid him $185 million to leave.

In 2023, WeWork filed for bankruptcy.

The jaw-dropping part of this story is that none of it was hidden. The company's financials were available. Smart, experienced investors with billions of dollars and entire teams of analysts wrote the checks anyway.

Neumann is now raising money for a new real estate startup. He raised $350 million for it in 2022.

CE has arrested Iranian General Qasem Soleimani’s niece, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, and her daughter, Sarinasadat Hosseiny, in Los Angeles after revoking their green cards. U.S. officials allege that while living in the U.S., the pair publicly supported the Iranian regime, promoted propaganda, and celebrated attacks on American forces overseas. The arrest highlights the U.S. government’s ongoing efforts to hold foreign nationals accountable for connections to regimes deemed hostile to national security, even if they reside in the United States. Hamideh and her daughter were reportedly living a luxurious lifestyle in Los Angeles while maintaining online posts praising the Iranian government. Their detention is part of a broader crackdown on individuals tied to the Iranian regime.
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How many of these things have you noticed:

1. Malls don’t have windows so you won’t realize it’s already dark outside…
You lose track of time and stay longer.

2. Bars don’t display clocks so you don’t notice how long you’ve been there…
You keep drinking, spending more.

3. Restaurants play fast, upbeat music so you eat quicker and leave sooner…
Making space for the next customer.

4. Cafés play slow, relaxing music so you stay longer and end up ordering more.

5. Supermarkets place essentials like milk at the back so you walk through the store and pick up things you didn’t plan to buy.

Everything is intentional.
Nothing is random.

In India, the legal perspective on relationships has evolved over time. As per current law, having an extramarital relationship is no longer treated as a criminal offense. This shift came after the landmark judgment by the Supreme Court of India in 2018, which decriminalized adultery, emphasizing personal freedom, equality, and individual dignity.

However, it is important to understand that while such relationships are not considered a crime, they can still have serious implications in personal and family matters. Issues like trust, emotional well-being, and mutual respect remain central to any relationship, especially within marriage. In many cases, adultery can be a valid ground for divorce under civil laws, and it may influence decisions related to alimony, custody, and separation.

The law distinguishes between what is criminal and what falls under the domain of personal relationships. While the state may not punish such actions, the social and emotional consequences can still be significant for everyone involved.

This change reflects a broader shift toward recognizing individual autonomy, but it also highlights the importance of responsibility, communication, and understanding within relationships.

From Apr 15, you can only bring up to two power banks that are no more than 100Wh on flights from Singapore.
Here’s how to check your device’s power capacity in seconds. https://cna.asia/4t1xEqi

🚨 WhatsApp’s “end-to-end encrypted” privacy is a total lie.

New class-action lawsuit just dropped: Meta secretly let employees, contractors like Accenture, and third parties read, intercept, and store your private messages WITHOUT consent.

All while marketing it as “only you and the recipient can read it.”

Zuck lied to billions. Your chats were never safe.

A billionaire walked into a five-star hotel and asked for the cheapest room they had.

The receptionist blinked, confused.

“Sir, our presidential suite has a full city view…”

He smiled and replied, “I’m sure it does. I’ll take the smallest room.”

The next morning, he ordered a €9 coffee from room service.

Then a €40 breakfast with fresh fruit and pastries.

In the afternoon, he booked a €120 spa treatment. When it was time to pay, his total bill was higher than what the presidential suite would have cost.

As he was leaving, he told the receptionist:

“The room isn’t the business. The extras are.”

The next day, he walked into a struggling neighborhood gym.

The lights were on, but only five people were training. Rows of machines sat empty.

The owner wiped his forehead and sighed.

“I have 30 members,” he said. “I charge €50 a month. That’s €1,500 total.”

After rent, utilities, and equipment payments, there’s barely anything left. If I lose even a few members, I’m finished.”

The billionaire slowly looked around, taking in all the unused space, then said something that sounded completely insane:

“Make the membership free.”

The owner stared at him.

“Free? That’s how I make money. If it’s free, I’ll go bankrupt in a month.”

The billionaire calmly picked up a marker and walked over to the whiteboard.

“Right now, 30 members at €50 equals €1,500,” he said, underlining the number.

“But free removes the barrier. You won’t have 30 members. You’ll have 500.”

The owner crossed his arms—but stayed silent.

Out of those 500, at least 150 will want personal training. Charge €200/month for coaching—that’s €30,000.

200 will buy protein shakes after workouts at €8 each.
100 will buy supplements.
50 will upgrade to premium classes.

The board quickly filled up with numbers far higher than €1,500.

“The subscription,” said the billionaire, “is just the entry ticket. It gets them in the door. The real money is in everything around it.”

Two weeks later, a huge banner outside the gym read: “Free Membership.” There was a line stretching around the block.

Inside, the gym was packed. Trainers had fully booked schedules. The smoothie bar was swamped. Classes had waiting lists.

At the end of the month, revenue surpassed €42,000.

The billionaire walked by the crowded gym once more and smiled.

“Stop selling access,” he said quietly. “Sell the ecosystem.”

In 1994, Iris Chang walked into a conference and saw photographs that would change her life—and eventually end it.
The images showed the R**e of Nanking: bayoneted babies, decapitated civilians, piles of bodies in a city that had become a killing field. In 1937, when the Imperial Japanese Army captured Nanking (now Nanjing), they unleashed six weeks of mass murder, r**e, and torture that killed an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers.
Iris was 26 years old, a journalist and historian. She stared at those photographs and realized something horrifying: almost no one knew this had happened.
There were no major books in English. No documentaries. No memorials. The massacre had been scrubbed from Japanese textbooks and ignored by the West. The survivors were dying, taking their stories with them.
The world had decided to forget.
Iris Chang decided she wouldn't let that happen.
She spent the next two years immersing herself in one of the darkest chapters of human history. She traveled to China to interview elderly survivors whose hands still shook when they described what they'd witnessed as children. She combed through archives across three continents, searching for documentation of atrocities that had been deliberately hidden.
And then she made a discovery that would the historical world.
She found the diaries of John Rabe, a German businessman and N**i Party member who had been living in Nanking during the massacre. Rabe had used his N**i status and connections to create a Safety Zone that sheltered an estimated 250,000 Chinese civilians from Japanese soldiers. His detailed journals documented the atrocities in meticulous, horrifying detail.
Iris tracked down his descendants and convinced them to share his papers. For the first time, the world had a Western eyewitness account from inside the massacre.
In 1997, Iris published The R**e of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II.

The book was an immediate sensation. It spent weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. It was translated into multiple languages. Suddenly, a 28-year-old Chinese-American woman was the face of historical justice, appearing on television, debating diplomats, demanding that Japan acknowledge and apologize for war crimes.
She became a hero to millions. Chinese communities around the world celebrated her. Survivors wept with gratitude that someone had finally told their story.
But behind the book tours and accolades, something was breaking inside Iris Chang.
To write the book, she had spent years reading eyewitness accounts of unimaginable cruelty. Testimonies of women gang-r**ed and then murdered. Children killed in front of their parents. Soldiers competing to see who could behead the most people. Mass executions. Live burials.
She had read thousands of pages of this. She had looked at hundreds of photographs. She had sat with elderly survivors as they relived their trauma.
She had stared into the abyss. And the abyss had stared back.
"I can never escape from these images," she told a friend. "They're always with me."
Iris didn't stop. She was a perfectionist who felt responsible for every unrecorded life. She moved on to other projects, including a comprehensive history of Chinese Americans. But friends and family noticed she was changing. She was exhausted. Paranoid. She felt she was being followed, that agents of those who wanted her research silenced were watching her.
Whether the threats were real or symptoms of deepening depression remains debated. But to Iris, the danger felt tangible.
By 2004, she was researching her next book—about the Bataan Death March during World War II. Another story of war crimes. Another dive into human cruelty.

In August 2004, Iris suffered a severe nervous breakdown. She was hospitalized. Diagnosed with depression and briefly on medication.
But the darkness had taken root. She told her family she felt she could no longer protect them from the "forces" closing in. She couldn't sleep. Her physical health deteriorated. The vibrant woman who had once commanded international stages began to crumble.
On November 9, 2004, at age 36, Iris Chang drove to a quiet road in Los Gatos, California, and took her own life.
The woman who had given voice to hundreds of thousands of silent souls could no longer carry the weight of their stories.
Her death sent shockwaves through the world. How could someone so brilliant, so successful, so vital be gone?
The answer was brutal in its simplicity: she had cared too much. She hadn't just reported history—she had internalized it. The trauma of the victims she wrote about became her own trauma. She carried their pain until it crushed her.
Her husband Brett Douglas found a note she'd written, asking her family to remember her as she was before the illness—"full of life" and "dedicated to the truth."
Today, when you visit the memorial in Nanjing, you see Iris's face. Her book is required reading in many schools. The massacre she rescued from obscurity is now taught around the world.
She forced Japan to confront its past. She gave dignity to victims whose suffering had been erased. She proved that one person with a typewriter could force a global reckoning.
But her story is also a warning about the cost of bearing witness.
There's a concept in psychology called "secondary trauma"—when people who document suffering begin to experience the trauma themselves. Journalists, researchers, therapists who work with trauma victims can absorb the horror they're exposed to.
Iris Chang absorbed decades of horror compressed into a few years of research. She didn't have the tools to process it. She didn't know how to set it down.
Her final book, The Chinese in America, was published posthumously in 2003. It was a bestseller. More evidence of what the world had lost.
In her short life, Iris Chang accomplished what most historians never do: she changed what the world knows about history. She rescued 300,000 deaths from oblivion.
But the price was her own life.
She wrote the book that forced the world to remember. The research destroyed her. At 36, she couldn't carry the weight of 300,000 forgotten deaths anymore. She gave them their voices back—and lost her own in the silence that followed.

On Christmas Eve 1969, deep beneath the freezing waters of the North Sea, drillers struck black gold.

The Ekofisk field — one of the largest offshore oil discoveries in history — had just been found. A small, quiet nation of fishermen and farmers was about to become unimaginably rich.

What Norway did next is either the greatest financial decision in modern history… or the most boring story ever told.

They did almost nothing.

No victory parades. No palaces. No sudden checks raining down on citizens. While the oil money began pouring in, Norwegian politicians did something almost no government in history has managed: they resisted temptation.

They had watched what happened to other oil-rich nations — Nigeria, Venezuela, Libya. They saw the “resource curse” in real time: easy money that brought corruption, inflation, inequality, and eventual collapse. Norway decided it would not become another cautionary tale.

In 1990, the Norwegian Parliament passed a simple but revolutionary law. Every single krone of oil profit would go into a new Government Petroleum Fund — now known as the Oil Fund. The rules were strict and almost painfully disciplined:

- All oil revenue goes into the fund.
- The government can spend only a tiny percentage of the returns each year.
- The rest stays invested. Forever.

The first deposit in 1996 was modest, almost symbolic.

Then came the hardest part: they kept the rules.

Year after year, election after election, crisis after crisis, politicians who promised to raid the fund lost. Those who protected it won. For over three decades, across governments of every political stripe, one principle held firm: this money belongs to Norwegians who haven’t been born yet.

The fund bought small stakes in thousands of companies worldwide — Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Nestlé, and countless others. It invested in real estate in Manhattan, London, Paris, and Tokyo. It didn’t gamble on hot trends. It simply bought a quiet piece of the global economy and waited.

The waiting paid off beyond anyone’s imagination.

Today, Norway’s Oil Fund is worth nearly $2 trillion. For a country of just 5.6 million people, that’s roughly $340,000 for every man, woman, and child. No checks are mailed. The money belongs as much to future generations as to the present one.

Here’s what truly stops people cold: more than half of that wealth no longer comes from oil. It comes from investment returns. The fund now earns more from its global portfolio than Norway makes pumping oil out of the North Sea.

They turned a finite resource into something close to infinite.

And while the world wasn’t watching, Norway quietly became one of the largest investors on Earth — owning approximately 1.5% of every publicly traded company on the planet. Every time a major global business makes a profit, a tiny fraction quietly flows back to Norway’s children.

The oil will eventually run out. Geologists give it 30 to 50 years, maybe more. It doesn’t matter. By then, the fund’s returns alone are projected to cover healthcare, education, and pensions — perhaps forever.

Norway didn’t discover more oil than anyone else. They didn’t have superior geology or technology.

They had one thing most nations lack: the courage to say no.

No to easy money.
No to short-term thinking.
No to politicians who swore they’d only spend “just this once.”
No to a generation that could have lived richer today — at the expense of every generation that follows.

Most countries can’t do it. Most people can’t do it. We’re wired for now, not for later.

Norway looked human nature — greedy, impatient, shortsighted — squarely in the eye and built a system specifically designed to defeat it.

In 1969, they found oil.
In 1990, they built the fund.
In 1996, they made the first deposit.

Today, they own a piece of the world.

And the politicians who made that decision in 1990? Most of them are gone now. They never saw the trillion-dollar result. They built it for strangers — for grandchildren who wouldn’t be born for decades.

That’s not economics.

That’s wisdom.