Archive for: August, 2016

Chapali’s clichéd height this time on (Movie Review)

Film: Chapali Height 2 Genre: Romantic Thriller Director: Dpendra K Khanal Cast: Ayushman Desraj Shrestha Joshi, Mariska Mary Pokharel, Paramita RL Rana, Rear Rai and Muna Gauchan Being screened at : QFX Cinemas The theme of revenge has churned out many films. It was once a hot plot. And films are still being made based […]


Nepal Youth Literature Festival

Kathmandu / Aug 20: If you are a literature geek, you can populate yourself with fellow enthusiasts at the ‘Nepal Youth Literature Festival’ that’s currently taking place in Budhanilkantha School. Organized by the school’s Drama and Debating Club, the festival opened on August 18. The festival is directed at young readers and writers who will […]


Art crosses borders

Kathmandu / Aug 19: The B.P. Koirala India-Nepal Foundation organized the ‘Ramayana Circuit Art Workshop’ in Janakpur to promote the sister city relationship between Ayodhya-Janakpur and Banaras-Kathmandu. The two day long workshop saw participation of five Indian and seven Nepali artists, including eminent Nepali artist Ragani Upadhyaya. The paintings were mostly derived from Mithila and […]


‘Readers want authentic voices’

Samikshya Bhattarai (Kathmandu) / Aug 19: Suman Ghimire is the author of the recently-published novel Maunata, a narrative of love and friendship with foreign employment and Nepal’s lost potential as its backdrop. An entrepreneur and hotelier, Ghimire also has a poetry chapbook, Mero Baisako Calendar, to his name. In this conversation with Samikshya Bhattarai, the […]


Couple ‘reading a book’ on beach interrupt Olympics broadcast

Aug 19: A couple spotted in a “strange pose” on a Brazilian beach interrupted a BBC Olympics broadcast as the reporter attempted to explain what they were doing. BBC Sport shared video of reporter Dan Walker in front of Copacabana beach where a man could be seen lying on top of a woman in the […]


Bear rifles through open rear compartment of SUV in Tennessee

Aug 19: A group of tourists staying at a Tennessee cabin captured video of a bear rummaging through their vehicle and stealing some cereal. The video, posted to YouTube by Titandwedebil, shows the bear rifling through the open rear compartment of an SUV at a rental cabin in Gatlinburg. “We just got to our rental […]


Snorkler catches sharks with his bare hands off Florida Keys

Aug 19: A snorkeler off the Florida Keys recorded himself performing a daring feat — catching sharks with his bare hands and bringing them to surface. The 28-year-old snorkler, who said he has been fishing his whole life, recorded a GoPro video of his July 26 dive down to a reef off Islamorada, where he […]


Aggressive seagull spurs supermarket evacuation

Aug 19: A British supermarket was evacuated when an aggressive seagull flew into the store and started harassing customers, striking at least one woman in the face. A video posted to Twitter by user @_bradhutchinson shows the seagull flying around the Tesco store before customers and staff started filing out the door of the Truro, […]


Deleting your Instagram account won’t solve the internet’s hate problem

Lauren O’Neil / Aug 20: Leslie Jones, Alec Baldwin, Kiera Knightly, Stephen Fry, Lena Dunham, Zelda Williams, Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber. The list of celebrities who’ve been driven away from digital public spaces — where millions of us go each day to share bits of our lives with the world and our friends — […]


Satellite images used to predict poverty

Paul Rincon / Aug. 19: Researchers have combined satellite imagery with AI to predict areas of poverty across the world. There’s little reliable data on local incomes in developing countries, which hampers efforts to tackle the problem. A team from Stanford University were able to train a computer system to identify impoverished areas from satellite […]




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