Category: Event

When no leaders could lead – protest goes digital with Facebook

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Leaders need to lead people for their betterment. But in Nepal, the term ‘leader’ itself is redefined as a person who talks big, deceives public, runs after a post, and earns him/herself a fortune in a record time.

When leaders forgot to lead, people start to fight for themselves. Nepali users of Facebook and Twitter organized a leaderless strike in an effort to pressure the political leaders in doing the job they were elected for, to write the constitution in Maitighar, Kathmandu.

Some photos of the event (photo credits – Nagariknews and NepalDiary)

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One of the participants read satirical poem that shows the frustration of Nepali youth against the failure of the political leaders to lead the country. The poetic representation of “the current state of ethical bankruptcy among Nepal’s top politicians” is simply hilarious.

 

Some more photos (credits – Nepaldiary)

UPDATE – Another video

 

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Sai Baba breathed his last breath

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The Indian spiritual leader Sathya Sai Baba has passed away.

After complications related to heart and respiration, Sai Baba was hospitalized on March 28. He didn’t recover and passed away on Sunday morning at 6:25 am.

Sathya Sai Central Trust, in a media conference held at 11:00 am, has announced that the body will be kept in display in Sai Kulwant Hall on Monday and Tuesday, before performing the final rituals.

The 85-year-old spiritual leader was considered an incarnation of God by many of his followers. Before the final announcement a minister Geeta Reddy and other senior government officials held a conference. The state government has deployed more than 6,000 police
to the town for security of the general people and VIPs.

Happy New Year 2068

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We will all our visitors a very happy new year, Bikram Sambat 2068.

May 2068 bring you all the best!

The president of the United States, Obama, and Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton, have also conveyed their best wishes on the New Year.

Music fans in Kathmandu are enjoying the tunes of Indian singer Kailash Kher in a concert being organized on the New Year Eve.

Bikram Sambat 2068 calendar is being updated. (Photo credit -raralake.com)

Miss Ecollege 2011 is Dikshya Shrestha

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Miss Ecollege 2011 was held on Friday (April 8, 2011) in Rastriya Naachghar, Jamal, Kathmandu. In the event, 18 contestants participated to claim the title of the year 2011. The girls, 16 years to 24 years olds, represented 18 different colleges of Kathmandu.

The title was awarded to Dikshya Shrestha. The first runner-up was Alina Mulmi and the second runner-up title was awarded to Namita Gurung.

Dikshya, along with the crown received a scooter (cash equivalent of Rs. 151,000) and scholarship in bachelor level. First runner-up received a laptop, mobile set, and two-years long scholarship in bache
lor level. The second runner-up received a mobile set, and one-year long scholarship in bachelor level.

In the competition, Rama Shrestha received Best Dress title, Amrita Moktan received the title of Best Hari, Pooja Gurung won Miss Photogenic title, Dolma Sherpa had the "Best Smile" and Manisha Basnet was liked by the viewers and got Viewers’ Choice award. Other title winners were: Sujata KC, Miss Best Walk; Julia Aryal, Miss Discipline; Nirmala Maharjan, Miss Personality; Asmita Basnet, Miss Best Figure, and Gita Pradhan, Miss Popular.

Movie Awards in Nepali Film Industry and NEFTA Film Awards

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When we see a couple of movies being released in Nepal almost every weeks, we get a feeling that the Nepali film industry is a successful industry. Every actor/actress seem very busy in one shooting or the other. The film personalities are busy in a number of events including movie launch, music launch, premiere shows, foreign shows and so on. Question arises – can the ‘book’ (film industry) be judged by its cover (all the hypes)?

Movie awards is another aspect the industry has progressed a lot. In the last two years, we have seen a huge increase in the number of Nepali Film Awards. Different organizations and associations are organizing such film awards without any coordination with each other. A few years back in the history, there were only music awards and there were nothing like movie awards. Now, the situation has reversed and there are more movie award ceremonies than music award events.

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Happy Holi – Karishma Manandhar organizing a special event

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Note: Click here for The Photos of the Event

Today is the festival of color in Nepal, Holi. We wish all our readers a very happy Holi! We hope everybody will make it enjoyable to everybody and they celebrate the festival amongst themselves.

Karishma Manandhar Event:

In the occasion, actress Karishma Manandhar is organizing a holi celebration in her home at Godawari, Lalitpur. Karishma has invited many of the Nepali movie personalities to celebrate holi in her home. The holi celebration starts at 10 AM in the morning and will run till about 5:00 PM in the evening. The event reminds me of photos of Rekha Thapa celebrating holi last year.

The actor Rajesh Hamal is on his way back from Japan and he is going to celebrate Holi in Thailand. He is returning back to Nepal on Sunday.

Bitter-Sweet – Lola Festival

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Miss Nepalgunj 2011 is Shreya Basnet

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Shreya Basnet won the title of the Miss Nepalgunj beauty contest held in the western Nepal city Nepalgunj, recently. Sapana Parjuli was the first runner-up and Shreya Samari, the second runner-up in the contest.

Miss Nepalgunj Shreya is the resident of DSP Road and is studying is grade 11 in Bright Land Higher Secondary School.

In the event, Preeti Rajbhandari was awarded Miss Catwalk, Kamana GC, the Miss Beautiful, Binita Thapa, the Miss Personality, Sadina Thapa, the Miss Talent, Anju KC the Miss Photogenic, Dipika KC the Miss Best Smile, Sony the Best Figure, and Netra BC was awarded the Miss Discipline titles.

The beauty conte
st was organized in Hotel Siddhartha View by Movie House in association with Generation X. There were eleven participants in the beauty contest.

Glamour Night to be held on Feb 26 in UK

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The organizer of the first Miss UK Nepal beauty contest, Events and Ideas, is going to organize "Glamour Night" on February 26, 2011. In the event held on October 23, 2010, Nabina Gurung was awarded the Miss UK Nepal, 2010.

The event to be organized in Hackney Community Center at Folkestone Kent will feature all the 13 participants of Miss UK Nepal. The participants will present fashion show, dance, singing and other different talents in the event. The organizor Shanti Gurung told that Sheetal Pun all the way from Hong Kong, will also sing in the event.

Bryan Adams Concert in Kathmandu Nepal – successful

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As excited were the Nepali people to witness one of the first western band to play in Nepali soil, Bryan Adams also seemed to be equally excited, according to his twitter post:

In the photo (above, by-Dipesh Shrestha, Nagarik ), Bryan smiles to the crowd at the airport.

After the concert, Bryan Adams, posted the following photo of the crowd in his twiterpic account with the title –

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Delhi concert of Bryan Adams canceled

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The concert of Bryan Adams scheduled to be conducted on Feb 15 was canceled at the last moment. According to the ticketing site kyazoonga.com, they have received instructions from the organizers stating that the Bryan Adams concert in Delhi has been postponed.

Details of the new venue, date & time will be available later this evening.

The site has requested the customers have booked tickets online and through retail outlets, not to go the the NSIC venue to pick up the tickets.

The site promises to refund the ticket price if they don’t want to attend the rescheduled concert.

Bryan Adams is scheduled to perform in the Indian city Hyderabad on Wednesday. He will perform in Dhaka, Bangladesh on Thursday and Friday and will be performing in Kathmandu on Saturday.

Adams has already performed in Indian cities Mumbai (Feb 12) and Bangalore (Feb 13). In the concerts Bryan was accompanied by his band comprising lead guitarist Keith Scott, and Michael Curry on the drums. The songs he performed were the hits of the 1980s.

Final preparation of Bryan Adams concert

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Canadian singer Bryan Adams is going to perfrom for about two hours in Dashrath Stadium, Kathmandu on February 19, 2011.

Three Nepali bands to perform before Bryan Adams 

Three Nepali bands will also perform at that time before Bryan arrives
. The event starts at 3:00 PM with DJ session. At 5:00 PM Nepali national anthem will be sung. The Nepali bands 1974 AD, Namaste and Mongolian Heart will perform, for about half an hours each, untill 6:45 PM. At 7:00 PM Bryan Adams will start his live performance. The event will be wrapped up at 9:00 PM.

Raju Lama of Mangolian Hearts is coming travelling back from US just to perform in the event. The band will perform three songs. Ishwor Gurung of Namaste band will perform with a Japanese artist in the event. 1974 AD is going to perform four songs including "Yo man ta mero Nepali ho..".

Security briefing at the stadium in preparation of the concert (photo source – Facebook).

6 day-long CAN Infotech wrapped up

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[UPDATE: 6th day Photos Feature]
This year’s Computer Association of Nepal (CAN) Info-Tech 2011 was held at the exhibition hall of Bhrikuti Mandap, Kathmandu, Nepal from February 1st to the 6th of February 2011. The 6 days long exhibition featured stalls on products and services related to computers, servers, mobile phones, access control, printers and accessories, networking and cabling, UPS and power solutions, Windows OS, CCTV and cecurity, IP communication, telephony and security, anti virus and other software, communication telecom and value added services.

According to the organizers, a total of 419,180 visitors attened the exhivition. The number of visitors this year increased by more than 40,000 when compared to the last year’s statistics. (video news credits – dcnepal)