Kathmandu / March 14: The Cox Beach International Film Festival – 2016 to be held in Bangladesh from April 15 to 22 will premiere films produced in Nepal that convey facts related to Buddha and his birthplace in Nepal. The International Academy of Film and Media is collaborating with the Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry […]
Kathmandu / March 12: Journalist Girish Giri’s book, Birgunj: Mero Sahar Ko Katha was launched amid a programme in the capital city on Friday. In the book launching programme, journalist Narayan Wagle and politician Surendra Chaudhary made comments on Giri’s debut book that focuses different dimensions of Birgunj city. On the occasion, politician Chaudhary said […]
Kathmandu / March 4: Namu Malla was crowned Miss College Nepal 2016 at the grand finale of the competition held at Rashtriya Nachghar in Jamal last Wednesday. Nirjala Khanal and Amisha Shrestha were declared the first and second runners-up respectively. Organized by Yuhan International Events Pvt Ltd, the finalists were also awarded with different subtitles. […]
Mumbai / February 26: Classical Indian dance could be an effective form of therapy for victims of human trafficking and sexual violence, helping them to overcome their traumatic experiences and gain confidence, a pilot study has shown. The six-month study of 50 female survivors in Kolkata and Mumbai found that dance movement therapy helped ease […]
Kathmandu / February 26 : Filmmaker Deepak Rauniyar’s ‘White Sun’ has been selected for Doha Film Institute’s second edition of Qumra which is its initiative to ‘provide mentorship, nurturing, and hands-on development for filmmakers from Qatar and around the world.’ Rauniyar’s ‘White Sun’ has been selected with three other films under the ‘Feature Narrative, Works-in-Progress’ […]
Kathmandu / February 18: Although remittance sent by Nepalese working abroad is giving life to the ailing economy of the country, the life of Nepalese living abroad is filled with pain. Going abroad is choice for few but compulsion for many whether they are going in search of employment opportunities or further studies. Amid this […]
Timothy Aryal / Kathmandu: There is so much going on, and nothing seems that ramailo. We are inside our author Jay Mukarung’s (Dayahang Rai) study. Jay is trying to jot down some words; the poem has to be finished by the next day, and the signs are not very good. There are traces of discontent […]
Kathmandu / January 29: Nagma Shrestha, Miss Nepal Earth 2012, has been crowned the third runner-up and Miss Fitness in the 27th World Miss University 2016 held in Beijing of China on Wednesday. Shrestha is also a goodwill ambassador of Child Reach Nepal and Ujayalo Foundation and is actively involved in social works. Kelin Rivera […]
Kathmandu / January 23: Twenty-year-old Swoopna Suman uploaded his cover of Rohit John Chhetri’s super hit song ‘Bistarai Bistarai’ on YouTube in August, 2014. Today, he has nearly 800,000 total views on his YouTube channel and over 7,300 subscribers. “The numbers are nothing compared to the amount of love I’ve received from my viewers and […]
Surya Chandra Basnet /Kathmandu: Bob Gibbons, then a post-graduate Englishman, had innumerable accounts of the mystic land named Nepal through books and movies. He did not delay a second to hit the road towards Nepal in his 1949 Land Rover model car on a sweltering summer of 1974. It took him around 16-weeks to arrive […]