Abstract How can we engage the secular in ways that encourage empirical investigations of its specific and embodied expressions? Locating particular places situations invites scholar to recognize it, say “there it is.” However, seems difficult pin down precisely: quickly expands into everything is not considered religion a given context, distinctively evaporate nothing. This article explores sl...

1 Centre for Plant Biotechnology, Division of Biotechnology, S K University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir, Srinagar, India, 2 Research Laboratory for Biotechnology and Biochemistry, Kathmandu, Nepal, 3 GRADE Academy Private Limited, Birgunj, Nepal, 4 Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences and Tsukuba International Academy for Sport Studies, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Jap...

IUCN Category: Vulnerable, A2cd CITES Listing: Appendix I Scientific Names: Melursus ursinus (occasionally Ursus ursinus); Melursus ursinus ursinus in India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh; Melursus ursinus inornatus in Sri Lanka Common Names: sloth bear; Northern India and Nepal: bhalu; India: rinch, reech, richwa, asval, karadi, puni karadi, elugu bunti; Sri Lanka: walaha (male), waelahinna (f...

This is the very first checklist of the terrestrial gastropods of Nepal. It includes 138 species and six subspecies, of which 22 species are endemic and four are introduced. It highlights 34 species recorded for the first time in Nepal and provides new distribution records for another 30 species.