Nepali girls confined by stigma and superstition

DEC 22 -  Saraswati Biswokarma sits in the dark, rearranging the threadbare cotton sheet and straw bed she is forced to sleep on before bringing her knees up to her chest with a shiver.It is already mid-morning but she has not been allowed out of the airless brick shed where she has spent every night for the past week.The 13-year-old was effectively banished to the shed -- barely big enough to stand or lie down in -- where she must experience...

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National strike over prison death shuts down Nepal

DEC 22 : Scores of riot police patrolled the streets of the capital Kathmandu on Sunday. A national strike in Nepal over the death in prison of a youth leader has brought life to a standstill. Schools and colleges, shops and businesses are closed and roads are deserted. It was called by the main opposition party, the Nepali Congress, after a local leader was reportedly attacked while in prison in southern Nepal. Analysts say the disruption...

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Nepal Indigenous Nationalities -KIRATAS- National Anthem "Hami adivasi, Hami janajati"

   This is the short educational presentation about Nepal Indigenous Nationalities asking them to contribute to nation building.  The Sanskrit meaning of "Kirata" is Indigenous or native of the land with this phrase "kiram atati bhramati yah" Upon trans. "One wandering over the forests and mountains" . From this fact we learn that the various ethnic group of Nepal who are indigenous are in fact the Kiratis. This shows that adivasi...

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Tourist arrivals by air cross half-million mark

         Tourist arrivals by air reached an all-time high of 501,264 in the first 11 months of Nepal Tourism Year (NTY). This is first time in the country’s tourism history that air arrivals have crossed the 500,000 mark. The last time Nepal received so many tourists was in 2010 when 448,769 visitors flew into the country. The year 2011 which is being observed as NTY has been encouraging in terms of strong arrivals growth from the two neighbours China and India. Though Indians traditionally make up the largest number...

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Yatri - Manas Ghale [Nepsydaz] with lyrics

Lyrics  मेरो बाबाले भन्थे जीवन बाच्न गार्हो हुन्छ खुसियालीको मौसममा हास्न गार्हो हुन्छ अनि आमा ले भन्थे राम्रो मान्छे बन्नु रे BA पास गरेपछि बुहारी ल्यौनुरे ए त्यहि आसमा सबै ठिकै हुन्छ भनि बसिरहे म पनि तर समय बिति जाने हो कि सोची बस्दै छु म किन यस्तो sad and lonely जब हेर्छु साथीहरु सबै भए मनका लोबी हजारौ लोबी आँखाहरु साढे सातको दसा बोकी अभियान चाही खोस्ने यो मेरो हातको रोटी तै पनी केई नबोली तेरो दोस्तिलाई आफ्नो सोची खुसिको खोजीमा हिड्ने बाटा हैन म कोही जोगी न त कोही फौदी ढोंगी साधुसंत न त कोही दोहोरी गाउने गंधर्ब न कोही politician जसको...

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Visit Lumbini 2012

       Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai formally announced the much-talked-about Visit Lumbini Year 2012 (VLY-2012) from the birthplace of Gautam Buddha on Thursday, inviting the world to work towards creating a peaceful society through Buddha’s peace message. “I formally declare the year 2012 as Visit Lumbini Year so as to make the birthplace of Buddha a centre of global attraction,” said the prime minister at a programme...

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Nepal Mountaineering

Mountain climbing in Nepal instantly became a passionate adventure treat for mountaineers after the country first opened doors to climbers back in 1949. Though the attempts to climb mountains started from the early years of the 20th century but no one had been able to claim triumph over it until 1953 when Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgey set their first ever foot on the summit of Mt. Everest. Soon after the pair’s first historical mountaineering...

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Rafting in Nepal

      Adveture River Rafting Challenge ,Nothing can prepare you for the exhilaration of  adventure tourism in Nepal which involves river rafting. The land is exquisitely poised between high peaks and lush vegetation. One gets the feeling that it is more than just gravity which impels the foaming water downwards and forwards. It is almost as though the water has a frenzied purpose as it spares nothing in its torrential march...

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NAC aircraft deal in December

     The umbrella agreement between Nepal and China that has been planned in December will finally approve the purchase of turbo powered aircraft Modern Ark 60 (MA-60) and Y-12 for Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC). “During the visit of Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao in December the country is entering into an umbrella agreement that will pave way for the purchase of MA-60 and Y-12 aircrafts,” said executive chairman of the corporation Manrup Shahi. The corporation has been planning to purchase ninteen-seater Y-12 and 56-seater...

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Raju Lama

   “Shayad timro baatoma mero paila nahola…” the very name of the song reminds one of the song that is catchy, upbeat and rhythmic. A song that made Raju Lama of the Mongolian Heart a heart throb of many. However very few know that this was his first recorded song in 1993. Hard to believe but true, At first in 1994, it wasn't much of a hit, blame it on the scenario, blame it on the composition. The same song did wonders eight years later...

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Afghanistan Takes ACC T20 as Practice Tournament

     Afganistan Coach Dawlat Ahmadzai said that his team is taking the ACC Twenty20 Qualifiers to be held in the UAE in March 2012. Afghanistan has already booked its berth in the qualifiers as a team of Division -1 and One-Day status."We are preparing for the ICC World Twenty20 Qualifiers, the ACC Twenty20 would be a good practice tournament for us,"said Ahmadzai. However, he said that they are confident about defending the ACC...

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NTA ( Upgrades ADSL Service )

With an aim to provide cost-effective and high speed broadband internet service to its customers, Nepal Telecom (NTC) is going to upgrade the capacity of its ADSL services. The company has already started setting up separate broadband remote access servers (BRAS) in the Kathmandu Valley and some major cities outside the valley. As the ADSL service users and rate of use has increased beyond its expectation, the company is going to install new devices...

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Overcome Failure

You always pass failure on the way to success.Mickey RooneyFailure is inevitable if we are to succeed in life. Unfortunately, many people do not know how to overcome failure, and they are stopped by it when they encounter one. The ability to overcome failure is one big difference between successful and mediocre people. After all, we should pass failure on the way to success, so it is the ability to pass it that makes the difference between those...

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