Year: 2010

Will gravity ropeway change the face of rural Nepal?

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Gravity rope-way is a simple technology to make big impact in Nepal.

Practical Action are installing such aerial rope-ways in Nepal to enable farmers to transport their good to market effectively. If you were a family living on a mountain in Nepal imagine how this would improve your life.

Stephan Harvey says, “Access is a big theme in Nepal. But for the people of Nepal, it’s access to markets, information, energy and basic services which is the issue, and also the theme for much of our work.”

See the ropeway in action:

And, a report on the rope-way:

Aerial ropeways in Nepal

If you are interested to know the details on the ropeway, there is a pdf document, Gravity ropeway technical brief in Practical Action website.

Namrata featured ‘like you have never seen before’ in Navyaata magazine

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A promising fashion magazine, Navyaata, in its 4th edition has featured Namrata Shrestha in new looks.

The Mero Euta Saathi Chha, and Sano Sansar fame Namrata Shrestha has proven herself as one of the most promising actress in Nepali movie industry. The courage and determination of Namrata after the much publicized sex scandal has further solidified her image among the new generation. It is not easy to live with that image, but we can expect her to be on high alert and giving her best in what she does.

I can see a much better, a matured, and responsible Namrata in the horizon!

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Will Atithi KC dethrone Cleopatra Stratan as the youngest singer in the world?

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UPDATE: According to Amazon, the original Release Date of Cleopatra’s album was: August 20, 2006. That makes, Cleopatra’s age at that time was 3 years, 10 months, and 14 days. My email, asking the exact date of birth of Atithi is still unanswered. But,  if the age of Atithi is 3 years and 8 months, as told, she would surely be the youngest singer in the world.

Congratulation Atithi Gautam KC!

Atithi KC, who released a solo album of nine songs, at the age of 3 years and 8 months, has a potential to be the World’s youngest singer.

Current record holder Cleopatra Stratan had also released an album in 2006 at the age of 3. As, it is not clear on the date of the album release we can’t say if Atithi has beaten her or not.

Cleopatra Stratan

Cleopatra Stratan is considered the youngest person ever to score commercial success as a singer, with her 2006 album La vârsta de trei ani (“At the age of 3”). Born in October 6, 2002, she was also 3 years when she released her album.

She holds the record for being the youngest artist that performed live for two hours in front of a large audience, the highest paid young artist, the youngest artist to receive an MTV award and the youngest artist to score a #1 hit in a country (“Ghita” in Romanian Singles Chart).

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3-year-old singer released an album in Nepal

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A three year old child, Atithi KC, has released an album titled ‘Atithi’ in a program organized in Kathmandu. The album was released by the hand of the top musician of Nepal, Ambar Gurung.

In the program organized by Arbit Publication, Ambar Gurung told that he was impressed by the songs of the little girl. Atithi’s father and the owner of Arbit Publication, told that it is the first time such a small child has released an album in the world. He is planning to apply for a Guinness World Record.

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Miss Angel 2010 is Sunny Amatya

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One of the July hat-trick of beauty contests, Miss Angel, was held today (July 17, 2010) in Kathmandu.

Defeating 21 participants, Sunny Amatya of Lalitpur was crowned Miss Angel 2010 in a program held in Soltaee Crown Plaza, Kathmandu. First Miss Nepal, Ruby Rana, handed over the 17-year-old Sunny, the Miss Angel crown. Nabaraj Acharya of White Horse company handed over a check of Rs. 1,00,000 to the winner. Sunny also received a Anna Lifan Motorbike and a 1 year subscription of Home TV. Sunny will also be the brand ambassador of Home TV services.
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Smallest book in Nepal – Dahi-Chiure

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A book of haiku poems, measuring three inch in length and 2.5 inch in width (3"x2.5") is probably the smallest book ever published in Nepal. The book named ‘Dahi Chiure’ is written by Iran Rai ‘Sweak’ and is of 67 pages long. The price of the book is set to be Rs. 10.

In the photo above, Baburam Dahal of Rajdhani Daily is posing for photograph while holding the tiny book in between his fingers. (Photo credits – Umash Sherpa, from Facebook)

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New currency symbol for Indian rupee

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Indian Rupee has got its own symbol. Similar to Dollar ($), Pound Sterling (£) and Japanese Yen (Â¥), and Euro (€), Indian Rupees has got a symbol. The new symbol is designed to look like a Hindi alphabet ‘RA‘ (र) and part of a English alphabet ‘R’. Indian currency has become the fifth currency to have its own graphical symbol.

The new symbol is also meant to differentiate the Indian Rupee from the rupee of Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Rupiah of Indonesia.

The symbol was designed by D Udaya Kumar, a graduate from IIT Bombay. The design got selected from 3,000 designs entered for the competition announced by the RBI. Udaya Kumar is awarded Rs. 2.5 lakh as a prize money.

It is planned that the symbol will be adopted in India within six months and all over the world within a year. The symbol however won’t be printed in the currency notes.

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Top 50 Websites in Nepal – only 15 are Nepali

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We don’t have a system to rank websites in Nepal. The truth is, we don’t have that many quality websites to rank. The only tool I could find was Alexa.com. It gives country rankings of websites.

A very simple analysis of the data shows that all the popular sites in Nepal are foreign sites. Only one Nepali site in the top 10 ranking is ranked 10th.

The analysis showed that:

  • Facebook (no. 1) is more popular than Google (2 and 3). Due to the local tdl (com.np and .com) the visitors in Google are divided. When they are combined, Google might still be the most popular website in Nepal.
  • The first Nepali website, Nagariknews.com is ranked 10, followed by eKantipur.com in rank 12.
  • Out of 50 top websites popular in Nepal, only 30% websites (15 numbers) were Nepali websites.
  • Nepali news websites were the most popular in Nepal with, almost half (40%) of the 15 Nepali websites were news websites. Entertainment sites were second with 27% share (4 numbers).
  • xnepali.com was ranked 43 and was the 13th most popular website in Nepal.

Ranking tables follow:

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Nihita Biswas making headlines… again (photos)

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Sweetheart of international convict and ‘serial killer’ Charles Sobhraj, Nihiti Bishwas, surprised everybody when she announced that she was in love with Sobhraj. 65 year-old Sobraj and 21 year-old Nihita is an odd couple even without the the spicy criminal scene. That was why Nepali director Narayan Puri once told he wanted to make a movie out of their story in 2009.

The ‘love story’ made headline once again when the Supreme Court postponed Charle’s case. The journalists present there to cover the final verdict of the Court had nothing but Nihita Biswas to report about.

In 2008, Sobhraj and Nihita told that they got married on Dashain, the of biggest Hindu festival. But, as no priest or any court papers were involved the marriage proved to be a publicity hoax.

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Miss Ecollege 2010 – Saloni crowned the title

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First Miss Ecollege organized by Season Media was held in Kathamdu on Friday. In the event Saloni Nhemafukhi of has won the Miss Ecollege title along with Miss Discipline title. Among the 29 participants, Sonia Shrestha of Campion College was the first runner-up and the Best Dressed and Namita Acharya of St. Xavier College was the second runner-up and also the Miss Popularity.

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Manisha Koirala honeymoon news in Finn media

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Manisha Koirala’s honeymoon vacation in Europe is being widely publicized by the local media. One of the Finn television has covered the news about the honeymoon vacation of Nepali beauty and Bollywood actress, Manisha Koirala. The screenshot on the right is taken from the television media report.

The news published in iltalehti says – ‘India’s most famous Nepaliese film star Manisha Korala is in honeymoon with her businessman husband Samrat Dahal in Finland.”

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