Related post – Teej – Festival of dance, music and fasting and (Audio songs) The 33-year-old, former crown princess Himani looked beautiful in a red sari at a program organized by the Tourism Development Board in Lazimpat, Kathmandu to celebrate Teej and choose ‘Teej Pari’ of this year.
The participants of the beauty contest ‘Teej Pari’ are married women and this is among a few beauty contest organized for married women.
The three-member jury to choose this year’s Teej Pari or ‘Mrs. Nepal’ included the first Miss Nepal, Ruby Rana. The former crown princess placed the crown on the head of Kusum Bajracharya, the Teej Pari 2010.
Himani is originally from India’s Rajasthan. In recent time she is seen doing things normal citizen are doing like – paragliding in Pokhara, shopping in Kathmandu’s malls, and taking her children to the cinema.
Following gallery features photographs of Himani in the Teej event (photo credits – Deepesh Karki/onlinekhabar).
With Google offering free calls to any phone numbers in the US and Canada, Nepal government might block Gmail in Nepal as it "bypasses the local telephone network" to make such free calls.
Nepal Government wanted to start banning websites but it is getting tougher than they previously thought. At first, they wanted to ban sex sites. They even issued directives to ISPs and as far as I know, the directive isn’t being implemented till date.
Indian Embassy accused Nepali media of improperly posting news about the evidence of finding non-consumable materials in Real branded products. The photographs of tainted products published in various newspapers do seem genuine.
Even if Nepali press have exaggerated (which doesn’t seem true) some unanswered question are:
Why does Indian Embassy have to issue a press release in this issue? Is it such a big issue? Does such minor events affect the intergovernmental relations between two countries?
Is Dabur Nepal (or Dabur India) so incapable of defending itself?
Indian Embassy and Nepali Press
There were reports about the tainted products from all over Nepal. Given our media house’s capabilities and dedication, I don’t believe Nepali media can create such a large scaled fabricated story (as Indian Embassy told). And, it was not a single media house that reported the story. Apart from Nayapatrika, Weeklynepal, ABC news, Kantipur, radiomirmire, Pokharatoday, Pokharanews, Yubabahas; a lot of media had published independent news on the issue.
Can Indian Embassy point out which of these media houses they were talking about?
Real worms in Real Juice
The news, photographs, and quotes of general public don’t look fabricated. They are from different sources, involve different people and are from different parts of the country. For example, some of the places from where reports of inconsumable products were reported (collected from different sources):
Kapilvasthu (Badrinath Guesthouse, Chandrauta) – A government official witnessed 20 tainted packets.
Pokhara (Bulaud Bazaar store) – The officials of Dabur Nepal forced the owner to close the shop.
Kathmandu (Mohan Cold Store, Anamnagar) – Sagarmatha TV featured the story.
More reports from different parts of Pokhara
Birgunj – people admitted to hospital after drinking Real juice
Misleading Indian Media Campaign
Various media bodies in Nepal have expressed serious concern over Friday’s statement of Indian embassy.
However, Indian media are doing their own media campaign against Nepali media. (When Embassy itself is that irresponsible, I can’t blame the Indian media!)
Some of the headlines in Indian media:
Dabur faces smear campaign in Nepal
Dabur faces misleading media campaign in Nepal
Indian joint ventures face smear campaign in Nepal
In contrast, Nepali media headlines read:
Media bodies irked by Indian embassy statement; ask it to apologize
Media orgs caution Indian embassy to respect diplomatic norms
On Wednesday September 1, 2010 Miss Nepal 2010 is going to be held in Army Officer’s Club at Bhadrakali, Kathmandu. The 18 contestants will compete for the crown of one of the biggest fashion event in Nepal. There are 8 grils from Kathmandu, 3 from Lalitpur and one each from Dharan, Sunsari, Rajbiraj, Birgunj, Kabhre, Tanahun, Arghakhachi and Mahendranagar. Most of the participants this year are in Bachelor’s level.
The beauties have been in training for the last one and half months. The winner of the contest will represent Nepal in the Miss World 2010 to be held in China.
After beating 82 competitors the Miss Universe pageant held in Las Vegas, Mexican beauty queen Jimena Navarrete has won this year’s title.
After Lupita Jones, Navarrete’s national pageant director, who won the title in 1991, Navarrete has become the second Mexican Miss Universe.
The 22 year-old beauty, after winning the title, said that she wants the whole world to know about her country and her people. Navarrete has been modeling since she was 15 years old.
The first runner-up was Miss Jamaica, Yendi Phillipps and the second runner-up was Miss Australia, Jesinta Campbell.
Miss Universe 2010, Jimena Navarrete
Second runner-up Miss Jamaica Yendi Phillipps
Second runner-up was Miss Australia Jesinta Campbell
Nepal government tried blocking explicit websites. But, till date there is no report of actual blockage of such websites. But, in a recent news, Nepal government has blocked five VOIP websites accusing them of bypassing the local telephone network. According to Nagariknews, blocked websites include nepalicalls.com, rynga.com, smartvoip.com, jumblo.com and 74.133.125.114.
VOIP is the future of telecommunication. They have their share of problems but being cheap they are gaining popularity in all over the world.
Deepa Gurung has won the crown of Sunny Girl Teej Contest, organized by Siddha Pokhari Beauty Parlor Training Center in Bhaktapur.
The beauty contest organized in the occasion of Teej had 32 participants who participated fully draped. All the contestants were in traditional Nepali dress Saree, cholo or blouse. The contest tried to differ from other contests in which short and sexy dresses are worn by the contestants.
Rajesh Hamal in a press meet in Pokhara, during the shooting of his upcoming movie ‘Paltan’, told that he hasn’t found a suitable girl to get married to. But, he also added – if everything went well, he will get married this year.
While Nepal Government is trying to block access to websites containing nudity, our age-old temples had been featuring such images throughout Kathmandu valley.
Although the exact and official reason for the carvings is not known, various experts have given different opinions. Some of the reasons are listed below: Continue reading
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