– Preena Shrestha / July 23: Published in 1982, The BFG might not have been the most appealing Roald Dahl book insofar as film adaptations were concerned—at least not in the way of other works, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory or Matilda, that lent themselves more easily to cinematic visualisation. Revolving around a little […]
Kathmandu / July 23: Sushila Arts Academy (SAA) has announced that it will organize the ‘Best Dancer Nepal 2016’ in partnership with Thames International College. The second edition of the competition will kick off from September 17 and will see participants competing in three preliminary rounds before the grand finale on December 7. The winner […]
Kathmandu / July 23: The ninth edition of NEFTA International Film Awards will be held on November 10 this year. Nepal Film Technician Association (NEFTA) has been annually organizing the event felicitating the best in Nepali movies. NEFTA president Pushkar Lama informed that although the venue of the event hasn’t been finalized yet, the awards […]
Kathmandu / July 22: With an aim to acknowledge the contribution of artistes in Nepali music, The Hidden Treasure has come forth with a new project ‘Abiral Yatra’. An announcement of the project was made at a press meet held at Radisson Hotel, Lazimpat. The Hidden Treasure, known for organising national-level beauty pageants like Miss […]
July 23 : The United States can join a landmark case on the legality of cross-border data transfers, an Irish court ruled on Tuesday in a move that gives U.S.authorities a platform to defend their surveillance laws before the European Union’s top court. The U.S. authorities had asked the Irish High Court to be a […]
July 23: Japan’s Funai Electric, which claims to be the world’s last VCR manufacturer, says it will cease production of the machines this month. Funai started manufacturing video-cassette recorders in 1983, and at one point was selling 15 million units a year. Alas, the clunky VCR has since been replaced by an array of new […]
July 23 : A new NASA-led study finds that almost one-fifth of the global warming that has occurred in the past 150 years has been missed by historical records due to quirks in how global temperatures were recorded. The study explains why projections of future climate based solely on historical records estimate lower rates of […]
July 22: It is officially the summer of Pokemon Go, and now that the viral phenomenon has come to Canada it is pretty much guaranteed that either you’re playing, or that someone else is playing — on your front lawn. The game uses a phone’s GPS to determine where in the real world to spawn […]
July 23 : A visitor to the Hoover Dam in Nevada performed an amateur science experiment by dumping out a water bottle and watching the water flow upward. The video, posted to Instagram by user @leslieh138, shows the woman standing atop the Hoover Dam and dumping a water bottle over the side of the structure. […]
July 23 : A motor scooter rider in China came up against an unusual road hazard when a runaway horse came along and knocked him to the ground. A video recorded by a traffic surveillance camera July 14 shows the scooter driver and a passenger traveling down a Zhejiang Province road. A runaway horse approaches […]
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