Nikita Chandak has been crowned with the title of Miss Nepal 2017 in the finale of the beauty pageant held this evening at Hotel Annapurna in Kathmandu. Miss Nepal 2016 Asmi Shrestha welcomed Nikita Chandak to the Miss Nepal winner’s club handing her the crown. As Miss Nepal World 2017 title holder, Nikita Chandak will represent…
Nepali community in the UK celebrated Buddha Jayanti at London’s premier location, Trafalgar Square last Sunday. This is the first time any authorised Nepali event took place at the Trafalgar Square in London. The event was organised by the Buddha Foundation in the UK in association with Embassy of Nepal and several other community organisations. Here’s…
Parkmandu is an initiative that is transforming Kathmandu’s urban spaces and making them livable and enjoyable for everyone. Our collective initiative is working with local communities to build and rebuild parks and other open spaces in order to improve the way people live their neighbourhoods in the city. Kathmandu’s urban development has been going under…
Prince Henry of Wales, Prince Harry visited Embassy of Nepal in London yesterday to participate in the bicentennial celebrations of the relationship between Nepal and the UK. A week long ceremony was organised by the Embassy of Nepal in London to mark the celebrations, and Prince Harry joined the reception of the closing day on…
New York-based jewellery designer Arpana Rayamajhi has been featured in a promotional short film showing the beauty of the Himalayas and Nepal. The short film by German airline Lufthansa follows Arpana Rayamajhi as she travels around different places in Nepal from Kathmandu Valley to Pokhara to the villages of Namche Bazaar. Watch the promotional short…
Nepal’s only billionaire Binod Chaudhary launched the English version of his book Making it Big at an event organised by NRN in London, UK. The book launch event took place on Sunday, 19th February at Venue5 in London amidst the presence of several Nepali business professionals. Unlike other NRN events, the event attracted several youths…
Popular rapper Anil Adhikari, popularly known as Yama Buddha has been found dead earlier this morning at his residence in London. BBC Nepali’s London-based journalist Bhagirath Yogi confirmed the news citing the rapper’s close family member. The news was confirmed earlier in the BBC Nepali’s evening broadcast of Saturday, 14th January 2017. 29 Year old, Yama…
One of the most talked about Nepali movies in 2016, Gajalu is now available to watch online. The movie is made available to watch on the YouTube channel of OSR Digital. Gajalu movie was released in Cinemas in June and was also the first Nepali movie to release in the UK Cinemas. The movie was recently…
The good news is that people are talking and sharing stories about Gurkha on Facebook. The not so great news, however, is that the Facebook’s algorithm is promoting an old news story of Gurkhas from an unauthentic click-bait website. Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered trending feature has been in several news stories recently for its flaws…
One of the biggest events of the Nepali diaspora in the UK, Nepali Mela 2016 was held successfully on Sunday at the Kempton Park based in Sunbury-on-Thames in Middlesex, London. I had attended the first few years of the Nepali Mela back in 2010 and 2011. After few years of gap, I visited the Nepali…