Kathmandu / March 12: Folk rock singer Bipul Chettri and ‘Zindagile Hisaab Maagchha’ dominated the 19th Hits FM Music Awards. At the grand finale of the awards show held in Army Officers’ Club in Sundhara on Friday, ‘Zindagile Hisaab Maagchha’, sung by Ajar Jangam, won four awards including Record of the Year. Chettri received three […]
Abhinawa Devkota / March 12: With the cross and prayer halls becoming ubiquitous in my locality, some have started noting with sarcasm that the number of churches in the area might soon exceed the number of temples in the city of gods. Although this remark might be taken for jest, it does point at a […]
Kathmandu / March 11: Music composer Saroj Pyakurel has launched his latest creation – Machhapuchhre Royo Aaja – on YouTube on Wednesday. The latest song is penned by Sudan Dotel while famed singer Swaroop Raj Acharya has sung it. Pyakurel himself has directed the music video while it features Ashok Bhattrai, Sanjay Khatiwoda, Anjal Shrestha […]
Kathmandu / March 10: ‘Rahadani’ released its trailer on YouTube on Wednesday, March 9. The film is based on the topic of foreign employment or the trend of migrating for work. The trailer shows the kind of troubles that actors Dayahang Rai and Ashok Rijal, who plays his brother, have to go through in Malaysia […]
March 12: A spelling mistake in an online bank transfer instruction helped prevent a nearly $1 billion US heist last month involving the Bangladesh central bank and the New York Fed, banking officials said. Unknown hackers still managed to get away with about $80 million, one of the largest known bank thefts in history. The hackers […]
March 11: Apple has accused the U.S. federal government of intending to ‘smear’ it as the fight over whether it can be forced to help law enforcement access the iPhone owned by San Bernardino gunman Rizwan Farook goes on. “In 30 years of practice I don’t think I’ve seen a legal brief that was more […]
March 11: Google launched a new feature called “Destinations on Google” with hopes that you’ll never have to use another travel search engine again. Destinations works like this: Type the word “destination” or “vacation” after a continent, country, or state you want to visit into Google on your phone. Google will show you a collage […]
March 10 : Newly published research from Yale’s Department of Neuroscience provides some clues to how cells in the visual cortex direct sensory information to different targets throughout the brain. Understanding how the brain manages to process the deluge of information about the outside world has been a daunting challenge. By imaging activity in the […]
March 11: A college in Canada issued an apology after accidentally releasing the test results of more than 1,400 health students via email. Algonquin College in Ottawa sent the results of 1,411 prospective students’ AC-HPAT entry exams to 40 other students. The results were sent in a spreadsheet including other information such as names, email […]
March 11: A Norwegian daredevil set out to break an unusual world record when he took his snowmobile for a 131-mile trip on the surface of a river. A video posted to YouTube by Jan Helmer Olsen shows daredevil Morten Blien taking his Polaris RMK 800 snowmobile for a four hour drive last year on […]