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- Nepal's provinces and local units
- Nepal is divided into 7 provinces, 77 districts and 753 local units (6 metropolitan cities, 11 sub-metropolitan cities, 276 municipalities and 460 rural municipalities).
- SAARC founding and secretariat
- SAARC was established in Dhaka in 1985 by seven South Asian states; Afghanistan joined in 2007. Its permanent secretariat is located in Kathmandu, Nepal.
- Sagarmatha height
- Mount Everest, called Sagarmatha in Nepali, stands 8,848.86 metres above sea level, a figure jointly announced by Nepal and China in December 2020.
- Nepal census 2021 population
- The National Population Census 2021 recorded Nepal's population at roughly 29.16 million, with an annual growth rate near 0.92 percent and Kathmandu as the most populous district.
- Nepal UN membership
- Nepal became a member of the United Nations in 1955. It has served on the Security Council and is among the largest contributors of peacekeeping troops.
- Nepali vowel and consonant count
- Written Nepali uses 11 vowels and 33 consonants in its Devanagari inventory, plus the signs for nasalisation and visarga used in formal spelling.
- Eight cases in Nepali
- Nepali grammar recognises eight cases: nominative, accusative, instrumental, dative, ablative, genitive, locative and vocative, marked by postpositions rather than word endings alone.
- Three genders in Nepali
- Nepali nouns are masculine, feminine or neuter. Feminine forms are often derived with suffixes such as -नी (राजा to रानी) or -इनी (नर्तक to नर्तकी).
- कर्तृवाच्य and कर्मवाच्य
- कर्तृवाच्य is the active voice where the subject performs the action; कर्मवाच्य is the passive voice where the object becomes the subject and the verb takes a neuter third-person form.
- Nepali punctuation marks
- Nepali uses पूर्णविराम (।) for a full stop, अल्पविराम for a comma, and question, exclamation and quotation marks similar to English usage.
- उपसर्ग and प्रत्यय
- उपसर्ग is a prefix added before a root (अन + उचित = अनुचित); प्रत्यय is a suffix added after it (लेख् + अक = लेखक). Both alter meaning or word class.
- Subject-verb agreement with collectives
- Collective nouns such as team or committee take a singular verb when acting as one unit, but a plural verb when members act individually.
- Present perfect versus past perfect
- Present perfect (has/have plus past participle) connects a past action to the present; past perfect (had plus participle) marks the earlier of two past events.
- Third conditional form
- The third conditional uses 'if + had + past participle' with 'would have + past participle' to describe an unreal past situation and its imagined result.
- Since versus for
- Use 'since' with a specific starting point in time (since 2019, since Monday) and 'for' with a duration (for three years, for two hours).
- Passive voice formation
- To form the passive, make the object the subject, use be plus the past participle, and add the agent with 'by'. Only transitive verbs can be passivised.
- Successive percentage change
- Two successive changes of a percent and b percent produce a net change of a + b + ab/100 percent; a 10 percent rise then fall gives a net 1 percent decrease.
- Compound interest formula
- Compound interest equals P(1 + R/100)^T minus P, where P is principal, R the annual rate and T the number of years, compounded annually.
- Average speed for equal distances
- When equal distances are covered at speeds a and b, average speed is 2ab/(a + b), which is the harmonic mean and always below the arithmetic mean.
- Profit percentage base
- Profit percent is calculated on cost price: (SP minus CP) divided by CP times 100. Discount, by contrast, is calculated on the marked price.
- Combination formula
- The number of ways to choose r items from n without regard to order is nCr = n!/[r!(n minus r)!]; when order matters, use nPr.
- Clock hand angle formula
- The angle between the hour and minute hands is the absolute value of 30H minus 5.5M degrees, where H is the hour and M the minutes.
- Opposite letter pairs
- In the English alphabet, opposite letters sum to 27: A pairs with Z, B with Y, and so on. Reverse codes use 27 minus the letter position.
- Syllogism validity rule
- A conclusion follows only if it is true in every possible Venn diagram consistent with the premises; 'All A are B' does not imply 'All B are A'.
- Calendar odd-day rule
- A normal year shifts the weekday of a given date by one day, a leap year by two; 100 years contain 5 leap years in most centuries, giving 5 odd days.
- Constitution of Nepal 2015 structure
- The Constitution of Nepal, promulgated on 20 September 2015, contains 35 parts, 308 articles and 9 schedules, and establishes a federal democratic republic.
- Five writs under Article 46
- Article 46 empowers courts to issue habeas corpus, mandamus, certiorari, prohibition and quo warranto to enforce fundamental rights or settle jurisdictional disputes.
- 24-hour production rule
- A person arrested must be produced before the relevant court within 24 hours of arrest, excluding travel time, and informed of the grounds of arrest.
- Police Act 2019
- The Nepal Police Act 2076 BS (2019) governs the organisation, duties and discipline of the Nepal Police, headed by the Inspector General of Police.
- CIAA constitutional basis
- The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority is a constitutional body under Article 238, empowered to investigate corruption and abuse of authority.
- Proportionate use of force
- Police may use only the minimum force necessary to achieve a lawful objective; firearms are a last resort and every discharge must be reported and recorded.
- Muluki Criminal Code 2017
- The Muluki Criminal Code 2074 BS (2017) defines offences and penalties in Nepal, while the companion Criminal Procedure Code governs investigation, bail and trial.