Year: 2011

Happy Naag Panchami – Posters for Nag Puja

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UPDATE on August 19, 2015 – An introduction to Nag Panchami audio/video added. UPDATE on July 31, 2014 – two posters added at the end.

Nag posters for Nag Panchami. Click on the posters to download the bigger version. You can print them or keep as desktop wallpaper.

Stories of Naag Panchami
UPDATE: Nag Panchami Stories - Farmer Daughter Snake God, brother sister, Bhoto Jatra, Vastu Purush

The devotees in Kathmandu go to Taudaha Lake, Naagpokhari to worship the Naag. Another holy lake, Naagdaha at Dhapakhel in Lalitpur also get crowded during the Naag Panchami worshipping.

In the Naagpokhari in Naxal, Kathmandu, a Naagpokhari Festival is organised during the festival to make the youth aware of our cultural heritage and religion.

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Happy Nag Panchami

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Pratibha Shrestha -Miss Purbanchal 2011 preparing for Miss Nepal

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Miss Purbanchal 2011, Pratibha Shrestha, has started to prepare for Miss Nepal contest that is going to be held after one month in the capital. Pratibha Shrestha (16), from Dharan-11 was crowned with title Miss Purbanchal 2011 in the 2nd Miss Purbanchal Competition, organized by Buddasubba Trainig Center, Dharan on Saturday evening.

5 feet 5 inch tall Shrestha was entitled out of 22 contestants at Sabhagriha. 1st Runner UP was Laxmi Subba (20) and 2nd Runner Up was Anita Bishwokarma (20). All three beauties got direct entry for Miss Nepal 2011 Competition to be held in Kathmandu.

Pratibha Shrestha was also entitled with Miss Catwalk and Roji Baraili became Miss Viewers’ Choices.

Dandi Biyo – Is it the Nepali National Game?

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Dandi Biyo is a very simple game, and is equally dangerous. Some say it is the National Game of Nepal. But, there is no documentary evidence to prove it (at least, I don’t know. If you have more information please comment.)

I am not against this sports being a National game. But, before a decision is made, there should be certain prerequisite of sportsmanship and safety of players and spectators. To illustrate my point let’s analyze the following photo:

In the photo above CPN-UML leader KP Sharma Oli is seen inaugurating Dharan Sports Tourism Festival, by playing Dandibiyo in Dharan on April 27‚ 2011.

 

Before the ‘sport’ considered a sport, let alone a ‘National Sport’, there has be a standard for everything that is used in the sport. These standards are required so that the competitions are fair and the result of one game can be compared to another. A slight variation on the length of dandi or biyo can have a very different result.

 

Some points to be noted:

  • A sports need to have standard playing gears. The dandi KP is using to play the game is a simple piece of wood. If it were to be a sport, that piece of wood should be standardized in terms of the type of wood, length, diameter and grip friction.
  • Same applies to the biyo piece. Length, diameter, tapering angle and so on should be standard.

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News from Nepal July, 2011 (consolidated)

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Flood and Landslide due to continuous rainfall: life at end or risk

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Due to continuous rainfall, highest flow of water has been recorded in the Narayani River this year.

Floods in the Narayani River has led to a water flow at around 250,000 cusec per second, according to Prem Chandra Gupta, the Secretary of Gandak Struggle Committee, Nawalparasi.

As a result of the rising level of water current in the river, locals in Susta and Paklihawa are in danger. The river has already washed away many areas of fertile land and there is a risk for 16 villages along with Paklihawa, Thulokhairatawa, Narsahi, Guthiprasauni, Bhjahawa, Pratappur, Kudiya and Rupauliya.

Due to continuous rainfall from three days, six people died on Friday in Tanahun. Two persons identified as Harikumar Shrestha, 44, and Balika Gita Shrestha, 14, of Rishing Ranipokhari VDC-4, were killed after the Chisapani River swept them away. Dipendra Shrestha, 16, son of Harikumar Shrestha, is missing after being swept away by flood.

Go Maya Ale, 19 and her 14 days daughter Sajin Ale of Rishing Ranipokhari VDC-7, died due to landslide to their house. Pitmaya Thapa, 17, of Bhanumati VDC-8 was also killed by landslide.

Similarly, Chetmaya Bhattarai, 78, of Bandipur VDC-8 was pushed away to the Khaldi River by landslide while went to see the landslide in the village and found dead in the river.

On Thursday night, in Palpa, Dharma Prasad Bhandari, 35, of Madhauliya, Rupandehi got injured while his motorcycle ran into a landslide along the Palpa-Butwal section of the road and died on the way to Lumbini Medical College. Landslide was triggered by contniuous rainfall at Jhumsa of Dovan VDC.
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Nepali actresses’ first child – daughters

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It is a surprising fact that, most of the Nepali actresses have given birth to a girl child as their first child. Majority of the actresses have daughters as their first child. The a daughter of the another actresses Arunima Lamsal have also given birth to a daughter (update).

Bhuwan Chand with her husband and three daughters

Let’s see who are those actresses and their daughters:

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Gorkhapatra – Insufficient Bandwidth

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When I wanted to see the online edition of the oldest newspaper in Nepal, Gorkhapatra, I was surprised to the following screen:

It is surprising for a few reasons:

  1. The media is the mouthpiece of the Government of Nepal.
  2. It is state-owned: meaning they have more money to spend in quality webhost than any other private owned media in Nepal.
  3. They have more manpower than other media houses
  4. The newspaper is not that popular to have that many visitors (Stats show that they have less than half the visitors in xnepali).
  5. Bandwidth are really cheap these days.

Now, I don’t know what this means in Gorkhapatra!

FIFA ranking: Nepal-1 in South Asia, 20 in Asia and 136 in the world

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With the release of latest FIFA rankings, Nepal leads the South Asian region climbing up to the 136th position. Nepal has climbed 12 spots in the FIFA ranking list published on Wednesday that is released every month by football’s world governing body FIFA. Nepal ascended to the 136th position collecting 184 points, and in the South Asia, Bangladesh is the next following Nepal at 147.

India has slipped six places and is ranked 153 in the world rankings and third in South Asia. Nepal and Bangladesh are the only two countries in the South Asian region to ascend in the FIFA rankings whereas Bhutan remains unchanged at the bottom at rank 201 and all other remaining five countries have fallen back.

According to the latest FIFA rankings, ranks of South Asian countries are: –

Nepal – 136

Bangladesh – 147

India – 153

Maldives – 160

Pakistan – 171

Sri Lanka – 176

Afghanistan – 179

Bhutan – 201

 

In the history, Nepal’s new ranking is the second best. The first best, the highest ranking was 124 that Nepal had achieved from December 1993 to February 1994. The lowest ranking was in February 2008 when Nepal declined to 188.

In Zonal ranking among 46-member nations of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), Nepal ranks 20.  On the basis of three international matches played recently by Nepal within a month, Nepal has achieved this new improved ranking though Nepal lost against Jordan with a huge margin last week. Nepal  was able to defeat East Timor 2-1 and 5-0 in two legs of the first round of 2014 World Cup Asian zone qualifying matches.

Meanwhile on Thursday, Nepal managed to hold Jordon to 1-1 draw in the second leg of the 2014 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers played at the Dasharath Stadium, Kathmandu.

 

May the corrupt rot – MaHa, Rameshowr Khanal, Bhagawati Kafle and 200 others

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In a protest against corruption, high profile protesters like Bhagawati Kafle, Rameshore Khanal, MaHa jodi (Hari Bansha Acharya, Madan Krishna Shrestha), Rabindra Mishra, and others gathered in front of the office of The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA), wearing the T-shirt with the message "Bhrasthachari laai kira paros" (Let the corrupt rot).

 Photo credits – edited from Chandra Maharjan’s photo

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Prachanda and Paras on common platform

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A report published by the website of the Times of India on Wednesday, indicated that Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, chairman of Nepal’s Maoist party and Paras Bir Bikram Shah, the former crown prince, are sharing a common platform. Both, who were sworn enemies during the “People’s War” that sought to abolish monarchy in Nepal, are co-chairs of the Asia Pacific Exchange and Cooperation, a little-known organisation from Beijing that hit the headlines worldwide this month after coming up with a $3 billion grandiose plan to develop Lumbini, the Buddha’s birthplace, into a Buddhist “Mecca”.

The website has asked what common does Prachanda has with Paras. The party leading by Prachanda has fought a 10-year war ending in the death of over 17,000 people and the Paras is known for for letting fly with his gun and fists first and asking questions later? And the unexpected answer, according to the website, is: the Buddha, the apostle of peace and the Middle Path.

The website citing to the China Daily, further, listed out the joint chairmen as: Steven Clark Rockefeller Jr, a fifth-generation member of the Rockefeller family; Jack Rosen, chairman of the American Jewish Congress, Leon H Charney, a real estate tycoon and former US presidential adviser; Prachanda and Paras.
The ways of the Foundation have been mysterious. According to a local media report and the Chinese web site, Paras left Nepal in a huff for Singapore in 2008 and in March, Prachanda went on a clandestine visit to Singapore, ostensibly to attend a programme hosted by the Foundation. The visit led to speculation that he had gone there to meet Chinese authorities over the fluid political situation in Nepal. The previous year, Prachanda had gone to Malaysia on the invitation of the same organisation.

The Foundation has claimed to build hotels, railway tracks, a Buddhist university and an international airport at Lumbini, but, the Nepal government no inklings about this.  According to the Times of India, the Chinese appearance in the Buddha’s birthplace comes during India improving the Indian cities associated with the Buddha that is trying to mislead the world into believing that the Buddha was born in Nepal.

Murder 2 – poster plagiarism – can also happen in Bollywood

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I thought, it can only happen in Nepali movies, – a low grade trick to copy the idea from other movies’ posters to design their posters. But, I am proved wrong!

Big banner Bollywood movie Murder 2 did the same – not in one but two of its posters. The sequel to the 2004 superhit film Murder, Murder 2 is told to be a Bollywood erotic thriller film.

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Over 50 thousand youth trying for employment in Korea

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For employment in Korea and better earning, 50 thousand 43 youths took the Korean Language Proficiency Test (KLPT) on Friday and Saturday. Total candidates, who had filled the form for the KLPT test, were 57 thousand 457. But seven thousand 414 candidates remained absent.

Out of the exam attendees, 7,100 will be selected and will fly to Korea starting January 2012. Director General of the Korean Department of Human Resources had come to Nepal leading 58-member team to administer the exams. The exam was taken from 20 exam centres in Kathmandu valley.

Best wishes of Rekha, Rejina and Richa to Pregnant actresses Sanchita and Arunima

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In Nepal, pregnant women are fed beaten rice and yogurt (Dahi Chiura) to wish for the health of the mother and the unborn child. Three of the Nepali actresses, Rekha Thapa, Rejina Upreti, and Richa Ghimire gathered in an event organized at Arunima Lamsal‘s home in Kapan Kathmandu. They also invited another pregnant actress Sanchita Luitel in the ceremony.

What makes this event special is that, these five actresses, who are considered to be rivals in Nepali movie industry, have tried to prove everybody wrong by gathering in a place to celebrate the happiness of two of their colleagues. 

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