Khagendra Thapa Magar, who is to be entered in Guinness World Record in a couple of months when he turns 18, is compared with a 1.5 liter coca-cola bottle in an article featured in American magazine National Enquirer.
Year: 2009
Nepali Movie – Deuta
Starring – Rajesh Hamal, Shrijana Basnet, Shrawan Ghimire, Yubaraj Lama, Ramchandra Adhikari, Tika Pahadi etc.
Director – Tulsi Ghimire
This is Tripurasundari International Cine Arts’ presentation, Yubaraj Lama’s film. The movie is made on the story, script and editing of the director Tulsi Ghimire. Actress Sirjana Basnet had debuted in the movie. The movie released in 2050 BS became a super hit movie.
Nepali Movie – Bar Pipal
Nepali film – Bar Pipal
Starring – Shree Krishna Shrestha, Pooja Chand, Roshan Shrestha, Muna Karki , Narad Khatiwada etc.
Script and Direction – Laxminath Sharma
‘Bar Pipal’ is the second movie of Global Cine Concern and is presented by Birendra Naraya Shrestha.
Nepali Movie – Arjun
Starring – Rajesh Hamal, Gauri Malla, Bipana Thapa, Sanchita Luitel, Dhiren Shakya, Arun Shrestha etc.
Direction – Dayaram Dahal
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Why are Nepali web sites being hackers’ target? – Part 1
By: Kumu Khanal
Why do hackers hack? Hackers mainly are of three types: hardcore criminal hackers, criminal hackers and non-criminal hackers. Hardcore criminal hackers are after money. They are constantly seeking money and materials that can be sold to a third party. Personal information like identity, credit cards can be sold over internet. Software, documents, movies, music can also be sold offline or online. They can use all kinds of tools like spywares, trojan horse, phishing and so on.
Other criminal hackers steal materials for their own use or share with their friends like photos, movies, music, and documents. On the other hand, non-criminal hackers might be learning hacking on their way to become criminal hackers or stopping them.
Some do hacking for recognition, fun, show-off their skills, or just to learn how it is done. There are others who hack for vengeance. Some good hackers hack to exploit vulnerability and warn the websites owners (too bad, there are not many good hackers!).
Why Nepali websites? I don’t think Nepali websites attract the hardcore criminal hackers as they have nothing to get from the sites or the visitors to the sites. People in Nepal rarely do financial transactions online. Online banking is also available only on a selected few banks; that too with very limited banking options. Due to unreliable power supply, internet use in our daily needs is still a luxury that we can’t afford. So, the hackers we are facing in Nepali websites should mostly be non-criminal hackers in their learning stage.
Does that mean we don’t need to worry? No, hackers cause financial damage in terms of downtime and loss of data. Sites also loose their credibility. Nobody would like to visit a site that is hacked or has higher potential to be hacked.
Hacker Cost: In 1995, when, we in Nepal didn’t know what internet was (although, first email service in Nepal started in 1994), hacking cost businesses some $800 million around the world. In another report in 2000 the cost was estimated to be $1.6 trillion in 30 countries. I don’t have the latest estimate but you can guess how the hacker cost should have increased in the past 10 years. Apart from financial loss they can cause mental and psychological damage which can’t be quantified.
But, Nepal is a different case. Our sites may not have that much value and hence hacking impact might be less. But, there hasn’t been any study on hacker cost in Nepalese contest so we can’t be too sure. I strongly believe such a study would benefit both the website creators and their website users. It will also encourage webmasters to adopt security measures in the websites, hence creating peace-of-mind in both visitors and the site owners.
In the next part, I will review some of the hacked websites and their user bases in terms of publically available web monitoring tools like Alexa.
To be continued …
Nepali Movies – Agni Parikshya
Nepali film – Agni Parikshya
Cast Rajesh Hamal, Bina Budhathoki, Saranga Shrestha, Shrawan Lamichhane, Hemanta Budhathoki, Narayan Tripathi etc.
Story/Direction – Surya Bohara
Zenisha Moktan – Miss Nepal 2009
Model Zenisha Moktan was crowned Miss Nepal 2009. She will represent Nepal in the Miss World 2009 pageant. Zenisha beat 14 other finalists to win the title of the beauty pageant organized by The Hidden Treasure
The first runner-up, Richa Thapa Magar, will represent Nepal in Miss Earth competition to be held in Philippines. Kunchan Tamang Moktan bagged second runner-up position.
Congratulation Zenisha and other titles winners!
Last year’s Miss Nepal was cancelled in the last minutes amongst protest from then ruling party, CPN-Maoist. Last year, during the preparation of the contest Zenisha was dragged into controversy with a video claiming to be hers. But it turned out to be a fake video.
Following is a slide show of all the Miss Nepal from the start of the event in 1994 to 2014 (updated in 2015).
Namrata Shrestha video incident: Lesson to be learnt
Some suggestions, that I can think of now are:
Travel Log Kathmandu – Pokhara – Palpa – Lumbini – Chitwan (Part 1)
By: Raju Shrestha
This was my first trip ever. I never thought, riding bikes or even sitting as a pillion is a hard job when it’s too long. So, we decided to take rest and eat lunch in Malekhu with fish, which was also fun altogether.
All I was doing was praising the charisma of nature. Halo shining through this pictures is a resemblance of excitement and pleasure to know the nature by so near.
Finally, we reached Pokhara and decided to stay in lake-side for that night. Glad to see the beauty of over-hyped Fewa lake, clouds all around so no mountains.
The panorama was so good that we almost forgot our friends. All were busy taking snaps in their own world of imagination and excitement. Some time later we accumulated and decided to get back. There we regretted of not having group pictures, blaming each other we reached hotels to get some sleep.
Next morning we went to see Davis falls. Again it was so splendidly running looking at which I imagined how David actually fell here when there were no bars. It was another masterpiece or gift of nature.
Then we set out for our next destination Palpa. Getting there was actual fun, back pain caused by riding bike was easily overcome by the pleasure of eye experiencing nature.
I feel like I am in heaven when I was taking this picture.
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Namrata Shrestha Sex Scandal
Namrata started acting in Grade 1. Watch Namrata’s first film Watch “Sangani” here.
Namrata Shrestha is in the top of the news these days with the release of her latest movie ‘Mero Euta Saathi Chha’. I haven’t seen the movie yet but I have heard that it is a cocktail of Hollywood, Bollywood and Korean movies. She had shown her acting potential in her last movie ‘Sano Sansar‘.
Also watch: A video about Namrata:
This post is not about her acting or movies but about a 8 minutes video circulating in the internet recently. I am not much sure, but the dimple of the girl on the video resembles that of Namrata. The girl in the video seems to be well skilled in what she was doing. Although the couple are talking in English it sounds pretty much like Nepali ascent. The girl, although looking a bit drunk, is well aware of the video recording as the flash lights are turned on. At some point, she tells “turn it off please…. its disturbing”.
I hope the video is not a fabricated one to defame the aspiring artist.
Nepali Movie – Ladai
Starring – Rajesh Hamal, Sushil Chhetri, Niruta Singh, Sunil Thapa, Bina Budhathoki etc.
Direction – Badri Adhikari
Ladai is the CR Films presentation and is produced by Chiranjivi Banset. The director Badri Adhikari is the father of actress Keki Adhikari.
Nepali movie – Shiva Shakti (Only description )
Nepali film – Shiva Shakti
Cast – Rajesh Hamal, Bipana Thapa, Sajja Mainali, Nikhil Upreti, Laya Sangraula, Deepak chhetri, Pawan Mainali, Hemanta Budhathoki etc.
Story and scripts: Ugesh Rayamajhi
Direction – Kishor Rana Magar
‘Shiva Shakti’ is the third movie of Om Production Pvt. Ltd. It is the first Nepali movie made on Fuji Color.
Nepali Comedy – Bigyapan (MaHa)
Maha Comedy – Bigyapan
Writer/ Director / Starring – Madan Krishna Shrestha, Hari Bansha Acharya, Mithila Sharma, Raja Ram Poudel etc.
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Nepali Movie – Ek Nazar
Aditi Chapagai presents
Nepali film – Aak Nazar (Ek Nazar)
Cast – Uttam Pradhan, Sumi Khadka, Kriti Pradhan, Rabhi Shah, Gopal Raj Mainali etc.
Story – Maunata Shrestha
Direction – Krishan Chapagai
Nepali Movie – Dharma Sankat
Starring – Shiva Shrestha, Gauri Malla, Jharana Thapa, Ramesh Upreti, Sunil Thapa, Narayan Tripathi, Laxmi giri, Kishore Malakar, Bipana Thapa, Rajesh Hamal etc.
Director – Resh Raj Acharya
The Nepali movie ‘Dharma Sankat’ is the presention of Sunil Kumar Thapa, husband of actress Jharana Thapa. The debut movie of the couple was successful, leading to other movies by Jharana and Sunil. The story of the movie is written by Sunil Kumar Thapa and Jharana is named the producer of the movie. The director, Resh Raj Acharya, has written the script and dialogue of the movie.
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