Celebrities and Gossips

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Miss France survived photo controversy

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Valerie Begue, Miss France 2008Valerie Begue, 22, from Reunion, nearly lost her Miss France crown when magazine published a risque series of photographs in which she was seen lying in a crucifixion-like pose while wearing a bikini or licking condensed milk in a suggestive manner.

Valérie Bègue, or Valerie Begue in English, is Miss Reunion. She was born on September 26, 1985, in Saint Pierre, the third-largest commune in the French overseas département of Réunion in Indian Ocean. Miss Valerie Beuge was elected as Miss France on December 8, being the first Miss France from the Réunion island since Monique Uldaric, elected in 1976.

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Miss France 2008 Valerie Begue (L) from the Ile de la Reunion region, surrounded by Miss France committee President Genevieve De Fontenay(R), reacts after winning the title in Dunkerque, northern France, December 8, 2007. Begue has kept her crown, contest organizers said on Friday, after a row over suggestive photographs that saw members of parliament, a bishop and the minister for overseas territories spring to her defense. (Reuters)

You can see the controversial photos from the magazine in this youtube video :
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13 persons killed and over 70 missing in bridge collapse in western Nepal

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Update: Death toll reaches 20 (28 Dec. 07)

Update: Toll reaches 16 with 36 still missing (26 Dec. 07)

At least 13 persons were killed and over 70 missing after an overloaded suspension bridge over the Bheri River in Western Nepal collapsed Tuesday afternoon.

Nearly 300 people were crossing the ill-fated bridge connecting Daha-chaur and Medhapura VDCs in Surkhet when it collapsed at around 1:30 this afternoon, the district police office quoted eye-witnesses as saying.

The people were on their way to a big religious fair at nearby Subha-ghat area when the bridge built only a few months back collapsed.

At least 15 people, most of them women and girls, have been rescued and airlifted to the Bheri Regional hospital for treatment.

Security officials involved in aerial inspection of the incident site informed that scores of people could be seen swept by the river. Deputy Inspector General at the regional Armed Police Force Office, Krishna Bahadur Bista informed that most of them included women and girls.

The zonal police office informed that over 150 people were rescued from the river till the evening.

Among them, nearly 50 people were taken to Birendranagar for treatment, the police added.

Local heads of the administrative and security agencies in the region reached the accident site which lies around ten kilometers northeast of Chhinchu Bazaar.

Around two hundred people reportedly managed to swim to safety.

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Nepali Movie – Thuldai

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Nepali Film – Thuldai
Starring – Shiva Shrestha, Jal Shah, Niruta Singh, Sunil Thapa, Narendra Thapa, Laxmi Giri etc.
Director – Dayaram Dahal

The second presentation of Jaya Chamunda Mai Film, Nepali film ‘Thuldai’ is a hit film of Ramkrishna Bajagai. The movie featuring Shiva Shrestha with Niruta Singh and Jal Shah is directed by Dayaram Dahal. Guest artists in the film are Bilol Pokharel and Dr. Dirgha Singh Bam. The movie features the editing by Rajani Pant, choreography by Prabesh Bantawa / Kamal Rai / Raju Shah, story by Sunita Bajgain, camera by Sambhu Sapkota, music by Sambhujit Baskota, action by Rajendra Khadgi and the script / dialogue by Amar Rasaili.

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Yeti : Mystery and New "Yeti Foot"

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Yeti is a mysterious creature which is supposed to be living in high Himalaya in Nepal Tibet border. But due to lack of evidence, it has remained sort of a mythical creature.

But in a recent report, some explorers and TV crew have claimed to find an evidence of its existence.

In the photo below, explorer Josh Gates shows the ‘Yeti foot’ in Kathmandu on Friday. A team of American explorers and TV crew found this ‘mysterious Yeti-footprint’ at Manjushree near Mt. Everest earlier this month. The abominable snowman, Yeti, is believed to live in the higher Himalayas in Nepal and Tibet. However, no scientific evidence of its existence has been found so far.

(Photo: Gopal Chitrakar, Kantipur)
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Nepal – 13th major students supplier to US

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Institute of International Education with support from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs published a report on November 12, 2007 stating that inflow of Nepali students in US has increased by 25% as compared to the previous year. With this increase, Nepal has become the 13th major students’ supplier to the US. The red line in the following graph shows the Number of students enrolled in universities and purple line gives the trend of increase in percentage share of foreign students by Nepali students. Year is given in Nepali calendar Bikram Sambat(BS) and the current year is 2064.

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Vietnam – Hoang Thuy Linh – Paris Hilton type scandal

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In America, Paris Hilton’s notorious sex tape started her career in the glamour industry but in Vietnam, an online sex video starring TV sweetheart Hoang Thuy Linh has question marked her career!

In Vietnam, however, this 19-year-old’s online antics has the entire nation calling them — and her — an unforgiveable disgrace.

In “Vang Anh’s Diaries,” Thuy Linh starred as a high school girl who upholds Vietnam’s traditional virtues. Translation? Women are chaste — not churning with sexual desire. Then the 16-minute video hit. Thanks to four college students who posted the clip on the Internet on October 15, the world watched this teen queen and her former boyfriend do the nasty knowing that the camera was on them.

In no time, her TV show was dumped by her network. The tearful actress in national TV said, “I made a mistake, a terrible mistake. I apologize to you, my parents, my teachers and my friends.”

But “damage” was already done! Her boyfriend will be forgiven but she won’t! (more photos of her below.)
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Letter to husband – condom attached

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Women in a Pang VDC – 7 in Parbat, Western Nepal, are told to be mailing condoms to their husbands working overseas to protect them from sexually transmitted diseases.

They wrote letters urging them not to have sex with others — but they have been enclosing condoms just in case.

“As I learned that unsafe relations make a person vulnerable to HIV, I send condom along with the letter to my husband,” says Laxmi Sunar, member of the local women’s group, adding, “Hesitating to talk about sexual relations will not help. We should change behavior.” (Kantipur)

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Top 10 Best Flag Designs, Nepal should have been one of them

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In 2007, a website named Yard Flags has a collection of 10 best flags design from around the world. The top 10 list had missed the unique Nepali flag. Now, after 9 years, I saw that the website has gone offline. It was an interesting post so I am updating this post with the missing flags and a video report.

At that time, I had wanted tell the site admin about the uniqueness of Nepali flag and why it deserves to be on the top list. The site required to register before I could write a comment. So, I wrote a blog post to send a trackback. I wrote, “I believe the Number One design is Nepali flag.”

The reason Nepali flag should have been one of the top is because of it’s unique shape. No other flags in the world are shaped like a Nepali flag. All the flags in the world are rectangular in shape and Nepali flag is the only flag with two triangles. The flag is painted with red color in the inside and a blue border. The the shapes of moon on the upper triangle and the sun in the lower triangle are coloured in white.

Here is the “Top 10” list from this page.

10. Plenty of world flags contain dragons, but none quite as cool as the small Himalayan nation of Bhutan.

9 ) The flag of Toronto has a pleasing 1970-s style minimalism to it. Looks as if the Canadian flag has fallen down a gap in the giant T.

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"Restaurants" and Vulture Conservation in Nepal

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Believe it or not “restaurants” are being set-up for vultures in Nepal. These restaurants are targeted to preserve the wild vultures that have seen a huge decrease in their population owing to inappropriate meal. The vulture population in Nepal is estimated to have fallen to a mere 500 nesting pairs from at least 50,000 pairs in 1990.

In 2004 researchers working in Pakistan discovered that diclofenac, an anti-inflammatory drug used in livestock, was poisoning and killing vultures (29 July 2006, BBC). Nepal started producing a new cattle drug meloxicam, which is considered a safe alternative for anti-inflammatory diclofenac, and it is intended to halt a big decline in endangered vultures. (August 04 2006, iol). Although the use of diclofenac is prohibited in Nepal and neighbouring India, but the ban is widely ignored.
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Yarsagumba: The Himalayan Viagra

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Yarsagumba or Yarchagumbu is an exceptional and incredible herb that grows in the pastures above 3,300 meters upto 4000 meters in the Himalayan regions of Nepal, Bhutan, India and Tibet. Yarsagumba literally means summer plant and winter insect (dong cong xia cao) in Tibetan. In India it is usually known as ‘Kira Jhar’ which means Insect Plant . Scientific name of this herb is Cordyceps Sinensis.

Yarsa gumba is a exceptional combination of a yellow caterpillar and a mushroom (fungus). Just earlier to the rainy season, spores of cordyceps fungus infect these Himalayan caterpillars that live on moist grass and hollow soil. After the fungus buries itself in the caterpillar’s body, it works its way out through the insect’s head. The parasite gets the energy from the caterpillar. The fungus parasite gets so much into the body of the caterpillars’ that it drains all the energy from the insect and ultimately it dies. As temperature increases and the snow melts -yarsa gumba emerges and is collected at this time. During monsoon, the yarsa gumba is swept away.
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Nepali Movie – Anga Rakshyak

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Nepali movie – Anga Rakshyak
Starring – Rajesh Hamal, Jal Shah, Dhiren Shakya, Rekha Thapa, Nir Shah etc.
Director – Dayaram Dahal

The movie ‘Anga Rakshyak’ is a presentation of Siddhartha Movies by Madhav Lal Shrestha and Nirmal Sharma. The action love story movie features superstars Rajesh Hamal, Rekha Thapa, Jal Shah and Dhiren Shakya in leading roles. The movie was a superhit movie at the time of its release.

Another Rajesh Hamal movie – an action movie with Dhiren Shakya. The actresses in the movie are two of the top actresses in the film industry – Rekha Thapa and Jal Shah. The movie directed by Dayaram Dahal also features another veteran actor, Nir Shah.

These days, Rajesh Hamal has stopped signing new movies. The actor Dhiren Shakya has also stopped appearing in movies but he is still involved in a business related to the film industry. Nir Shah is still active as a producer, actor and director. Rekha is active as an actress and producer. Jal Shah has left Nepal and is living in the USA with her husband and a daughter. As Jal has gained quite a bit of weight, the possibility of her returning in the film industry is virtually none.

Movie is not available now.

Mount Everest Records

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Mount Everest has been an ideal place for record setting for adventurers. In a recent news, mountaineering authorities are calling for a ban on nudity on the highest peak. In this context, I want to present some of the records set on the top of the world.

The record setting game started with New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepali Sherpa Tensing Norgay on 29 May 1953 when they became the first people to scale the highest peak in the world.

Last year, a Nepali climber claimed the world’s highest display of nudity when he disrobed for several minutes while standing on the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) summit in temperatures about minus 10 degrees Celsius. In a recent news, another record-setting attempt by a Dutch man who attempted to scale the peak wearing only shorts has sparked controversy.

According to the officials, mountaineering authorities are calling for a ban on nudity and attempts to set ‘obscene records’ on the world’s highest peak. The reason they are quoting are based on some religious belief of people worshiping the mountains as gods. But if I were to choose a valid reason I would quote health and safety reason. I believe it is not a healthy thing to to be naked for a couple of days in sub-zero temperature.

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Nepali Movie – Prithvi

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Nepali Film – Prithivi
Casting – Rajesh Hamal, Mausami Malla, Srijana Basnet, Tika Pahadi, Hemanta Budhathoki, Muralidhar etc.
Director – Prakash Sayami

A presentation fo Shiva Shakti Films by Sudha Shrestha, ‘Prithivi’ features Rajesh Hamal as Prithivi. Actress Laxmi Giri is featured in a special appearance. The music of movie is composed by Shakti Ballav.
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Nepal Airlines: God Save Us

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In might sound strange, but Nepalese people sacrifice goats to please gods. Well, I think it should have started as an excuse for killing animals for meat. In Nepal, a small country with a population of 24 million and 330 million Gods, even vegetarian people sacrifice vegetables like zucchini, cucumber etc. for the gods.

But you have to be alarmed when engineers that too in airlines business start to believe on such things.

Officials at Nepal’s state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday. The goats were sacrificed in front of the troublesome aircraft Sunday at Nepal’s only international airport in Kathmandu in accordance with Hindu traditions, an official said. (Reuters)

The photo on the left is taken from Nepali National Daily Kantipur dated Sept. 4, 2007.

Translation of the Nepali text below the photo: An aircraft of Nepal Airlines Corporation being offered sacrifice of a goat. This aircraft has a history of recurrent technical problems. The journalist who took this photo was taken in captivity of the airport security personnel for four hours and he was charged Rs. 226 (about $3.50) as a fine on his release. Photo: Bikash Karki/Kantipur.