Kathmandu / Sept 25: The song ‘Surke Thailee Khai’ of Nepali movie ‘Ward Number 6’ has won the ‘Public Choice Award’ in the 18th Image Award-2016. In the awards distribution ceremony held here Saturday, the winner was announced on the basis of public votes. Likewise, singer Manoj Raj clinched this year’s Image Award for ‘best […]
Kathmandu / Sept 13: Indra Jatra, known as the biggest festival of the Kathmandu Valley, formally began today with the erection of a wooden ceremonial pole (lingo) and the fluttering of a flag named after the Hindu God Indra at Hanumandhoka. The festival dedicated to Indra, the god of rain and king of heaven, is […]
Kathmandu / Sept 10: Badusha Thapa Magar has been crowned with the Miss Tourism 2016 amid a programme here on Sunday. Similarly, Jenny Amatya and Sharmila Tamang won the first runner up and second runner up in the race. Minister for Urban Development Arjun Narsing KC, inaugurating the grand final of the contest organized by […]
Kathmandu / Sept 7: The fifth edition of ‘Nepal Africa Film Festival – 2016’ kicked off today at the Russian Centre of Science and Culture (RCSC) at Kamalpokhari of the capital city. Vice President Nanda Bahadur Pun inaugurated the festival and shared his belief that the event would work as a bridge in boosting the […]
Samikshya Bhattarai / Sept. 04: Team Kavre bagged the top honours at the first ever National Poetry Slam held in the Capital on Saturday. The event—dubbed QC Awards 2016 and organised by the spoken word poetry collective Word Warriors—saw four teams from Kathmandu, Dhangadi, Pokhara and Kavre compete for the top honours during the finale […]
Kathmandu / Sept 2: To director Suraj Bhushal his new film ‘Gaatho’ is an outcome of his filmmaking principle to never be repetitive. His three year old writing-directing career started with ‘Maun’ (2013) that brought to screen an off-beat romantic drama between a deaf and mute couple. This was followed by 2015’s ‘Hostel Returns’, a […]
Smriti Dhungana / Sept. 03: Actress Priyanka Karki, who is busy with the promotion of her new movie ‘Chhakka Panja’ of late, was spotted at the Babarmahal-based Nepal Art Council on Saturday. She was there to observe the best photographs that were selected for exhibition from the IME Global IME Nepal Photo Contest 2016 that […]
Jessica Rai / Kathmandu: Tabala maestro of Nepal Pandit Hom Nath Upadhyaya — scholar, educator and a performer of tabala — has been diagnosed with liver cancer in its last stage. He has been admitted to the Cancer Care Department of Om Hospital & Research Centre, Chabahil. The 73-year-old musician was admitted in the evening […]
Kathmandu / Aug 31: The BP Koirala Literary Award instituted by BP Koirala Memorial Trust will be conferred on senior writer Bhuwan Dhungana Likewise, the annual Freedom Fighter Award will be presented to Shyam Lal Shrestha. A Committee led by Trust’s Treasurer Purushottam Basnet and consisting of members Baldev Sharma Majgainya, Dr Dhubra Chandra Gautam […]
Baitadi / Aug 22: The Gaura Festival has begun in the Far-West including Baitadi today. The festival, one of the most famous in the region, normally falls in the Nepali month of Bhadra (August/September) according to lunar calendar and is also celebrated in some districts in the Mid-West as well as Kumaun in India. On […]
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