One of the important Nepali festivals, Holi was celebrated in many places of Nepal including Kathmandu. The festival of colours was vibrant and relatively peaceful this year in Kathmandu. While crowds were seen all around the city, a public program organised at Basantapur attracted a massive crowd to celebrate Holi together in the centre of…
A Turkish airlines airbus A330 aircraft overshoot runway at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu this morning (Wednesday, 7:45 am). The aircraft couldn’t land properly due to the poor visibility and was reportedly in the sky for few hours. Luckily, all passengers are reported safe in the incident. The Turkish airlines flight 726 was inbound…
Who wouldn’t be shocked by the news of two schoolgirls being attacked with acid in Kathmandu yesterday? The news as reported by the BBC and AFP stated that two teenage schoolgirls – Sangita Magar, 16, and Sima Basnet, 15 were admitted to a hospital in Kathmandu with burn injuries after a masked boy attacked them…
Twitter has finally rolled out its support for hashtags in few Devanagari scripts including Nepali hashtags . While tweeting in the Nepali script was supported before, it has now made possible to include #hashtags, one of the most popular features of the micro blogging platform. To clarify further, although users could add the ‘#” sign before…
Teriya Magar dance performance in an Australian Nepali event is spreading around the communities on social media. Teriya is a brilliant dancer and no wonder she makes her audience love her even more with each performance. Watch her latest dance video below of her latest performance embedded from my Facebook page. Post by Pradeep Kumar…
Nepal has climbed by six places up in the latest FIFA world rankings of 2015. The latest ranking now places Nepal in 180th position. A total of 209 nations are presented in the rankings of world football governing body – FIFA. While Nepal is ranked at 180th position with 55.4 points, the world cup winner…
Nepal’s richest and the only person on the list, Binod Chaudhary has successfully claimed the 1306th position on the prestigious Forbes Billionaire list of 2015. The Nepali billionaire has managed to add an extra US$ 200 million in the previous year to his fortune, thus ranking in the 1306th position from his previous position of…
Government of Nepal and World Wildlife Federation (WWF) are hosting an Anti-poaching summit in Kathmandu on 2nd February as Nepal has successfully managed to cut poaching incidents 100% since 2010. Nepal shares this remarkable achievement with India as India has managed to increase tiger numbers by a staggering 30% in the past 5 years. Nepal…
Nepal government has reduced climbing fees for the Mt. Everest and other mountains in the great Himalayas by more than 50 percent with the beginning of this new year. “This new step is being made to increase the tourist flow for mountain climbing. We concluded that it was about time we cut prices to climb…
Popular actor Shree Krishna Shrestha has passed away last night at Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, India. He was undergoing treatment for pneumonia in the Delhi based hospital for past two weeks. Having acted in more than hundred movies, Shree Krishna Shrestha is an extremely popular face of Nepali movies industry. He has spent more…