Kathmandu / Oct 22: Around 13 metric tonnes of waste were collected from the major rivers including Bagmati River and their banks at various places of Kathmandu valley on Saturday. Marking the 180th week of the Bagmati Clean-Up Campaign, participants of the campaign today collected the river’s waste at Guheshwari and Bishwaroop Temple premises. According […]
Biratnagar / Oct 22: President Bidya Devi Bhandari, inaugurating the Senior Citizens’ Festival amidst a function here today, has said that senior citizens’ contribution was an important asset of the nation. President Bhandari suggested utilizing such contribution of the senior citizens as the energy for the social development. She expressed worry over the distractions of […]
Kathmandu / Oct 22: CPN (Maoist Center) lawmaker and member of Impeachment Recommendation Committee, Amanlal Modi, has said the impeachment motion registered in the Parliament against Chief of the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), Lokmam Singh Karki, would be approved by two-third majority. At a program organized at Reporters’ Club Nepal in […]
Kathmandu / Oct 22: Junko Tabei, first woman to scale Mount Everest, has died at the age of 77. Tabei was suffering from cancer for the past four years and died in the course of treatment at a cancer centre in a Japanese town of Saita, according Japanese Mountaineering Association. Born in Japan on September […]
Kathmandu / Oct 22: Ten schools from Kathmandu and one school from Udaypur are gearing up to show their respective plays at the inaugural Bhadgaun International Children’s Theater Festival that’s set to kick off from October 23. Hosted by Matribhumi School, a school based in Sanothimi, Bhaktapur, the festival will also feature plays by theater […]
Oct 21: As this year’s runaway hit Chhakka Panja which this week inched over the Rs 12 crore mark at the box office–continues to draw in the crowds, an excited Deepashree Niraula, the movie’s debutant director, says it is the subject the movie pivots around that has struck a chord with moviegoers. “The film raises […]
Prakash Chandra Timilsena: If you find yourself in the western region of Nepal around Dashain, there is one thing you don’t want to miss: the Sakhiya Naach. Practiced in districts such as Bardiya, Dang, Banke, Kailaili, and Kanchanpur; Sakhiya Naach is one of the most awaited and robustly celebrated rituals among Tharus—the indigenous people who […]
Oct. 21: An 18-year-old tea vendor who became Pakistan’s hottest new celebrity when his photo went viral on the Internet says he has no plans for an acting career – though he is flattered by the attention. Arshad Khan became an overnight sensation this week when a photographer’s Instagram shot of him working at his […]
Oct 20: The English version of mountaineer Lakpa Phuti Sherpa’s memoir Himalma Chaalis Barsha-Forty years in the Mountains-has been released. The Nepali version of the book was released in 2014. The book encapsulates Sherpa’s musings about her distinguished mountaineering career. Sherpa, born and raised in Solukhumbu district, started her journey as a mountaineer at a […]
Oct. 22: A number of popular websites like Twitter and Netflix went down for some users on Friday in a massive cyberattack with international reach. Affected sites included Twitter (TWTR, Tech30), Etsy (ETSY), Github, Vox, Spotify, Airbnb, Netflix (NFLX, Tech30) and Reddit. Dyn, which manages website domains and routes internet traffic, experienced two distributed denial […]
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