Nepali film producer Narayan Khatiwada is found dead in a hotel in Kathmandu at round 3 PM on Wednesday, December 10, 2014. He had checked in room number 103 of Hotel Hardik in Bagbazar on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning, when nobody answered the door of his room, the room was forced open to find Khatiwada dead.
Originally from Chitwan, Khatiwada had recently completed the shooting of his third movie, ‘Mero Manche’. He had also produced movies ‘Bheti’ (Watch Bheti here) and ‘Lafada’ (watch ‘Lafada’ here).
Initial report suggest Khatiwada had sufferet heart fail and died. His relatives from Chitwan are on their way to Kathmandu to receive the dead body.
Initial report suggest Khatiwada had sufferet heart fail and died. His relatives from Chitwan are on their way to Kathmandu to receive the dead body.
NC candidate from Kathmandu-2, Deepak Kuikel, was victorious securing 18,678 votes. NC have won election in kathmandu after 18 years. As per the recent poll updates, total voter turnout in all constituencies was 69.39 per cent. Voter turnout in Chitwan-4, Kathmandu-2, Bardiya-1 and Kailali was 73.1 per cent, 66.54 per cent, 75.74 per cent and 62.54 per cent, respectively.
Uprety said the percentage of voter turnout was based on preliminary data, which could be slightly modified when final data is analysed. Uprety said participation in all the four constituencies was encouraging. The voting was conducted yesterday by using Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) for all constituencies in the by-election.
Uprety said the percentage of voter turnout was based on preliminary data, which could be slightly modified when final data is analysed. Uprety said participation in all the four constituencies was encouraging. The voting was conducted yesterday by using Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) for all constituencies in the by-election.
Three men are arrested by police in Parsa with hashish. They are caught with red handed when they are taking the hashish to other countries so that they can earn money illegally.
The MaHa duo, Madan Krishna Shrestha and Hari Bansha Acharya and other artists are going to perform in various cities of Australia under a tour titled MaHa Yatra 2014.
The artists comprising of MaHa, Kiran KC, Basundhara Bhusal, Narendra Kansarkar, Shiva Hari Poudel, Kunti Moktan and Mohit Bamsha Acharya (Haribansha’s son) will also be in the MaHaYatra tour.
The artists are scheduled to reach Australia on January 16. The tour will start from the Australian city Perth on January 18 and will conclude in Sydney on February 2. The events will be conducted in the major cities like Perth, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane, Alidade, and Sydney.
In MaHaYatra 2014, MaHa will perform well known comedy shows of the past and a new show. Other artists will also be featured in different comedy shows and musical programs.
The schedule of the program is:
- January 18, 2014 (Saturday) – Perth
- January 19, 2014 (Sunday) – Adelaide
- January 25, 2014 (Saturday) – Canberra
- January 27, 2014 (Monday) – Melbourne
- February 1, 2014 (Saturday) – Brisbane
- February 2, 2014 (Sunday) – Sydney
Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has increased the load-shedding to 46.5 hours from 24.75 hours a week with effect from October 17, 2013 (Asoj 31, 2070). As per the new schedule, Nepalese people will have to suffer due to lack of electricity for 7 hours for four days, 6.5 hours for one day and 6 hours for the remaining two days in a week.
Here is a Detail List of New Loadshedding Schedule - Effective from October 17, 2013 (Asoj 31, 2070
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Here is a Detail List of New Loadshedding Schedule - Effective from October 17, 2013 (Asoj 31, 2070
While in Hong Kong, Rekha Thapa had announced to support the backward communities like Raute and Chepang. Now, she has converted her words to deeds by meeting the members of the community and supporting them with materials of their daily needs.
Rekha Thapa shows her love for the Raute community
To meet the people of Raute community actress Rekha Thapa had headed towards Surkhet on Friday. Rekha and the Rekha Thapa Foundation members met 52 families of Raute in remote Surkhet. She distributed 52 sacks of rice and some money to the families of the community. The people in the Raute community appreciated Rekha for the community and told that now she has become one of the community member.
Rekha Thapa and the team are also planning to visit Dadeldhura and meet the Raute community living in the area.
On Monday, Rekha Thapa is planning to live with Raute children for 24 hours in their own residence, in jungle. Rekha is planning to adopt four Raute children to raise and support in Rekha Thapa Foundation. She is looking for kids aged 5-9 years to support and provide health and education.
Rekha is also planning to register herself as the mother of the kids to provide them with the citizenship and make them competitive in the society. Rekha has invested all the funds collected from the screening of her movie ‘Kali‘ in Hong Kong in Rekha Thapa Foundation.
Photo credit – Rekha and Rekha Thapa Foundation.
During the premier of ‘Kali’ in Hong Kong, Rekha Thapa had announced her desire to start active participation in social work. In the event, Rekha had announce about spending some quality time with Raute children and help the children in their upbringing and education. As per the announcement, actress Rekha Thapa has headed towards Western Nepal, Surkhet on Friday, December 13. She will spend 24 hours in the area.
Rekha is planning to adopt four Raute children in her non-government organization, Rekha Thapa Foundation (RTF), for the upbringing and to provide education. Raute is a primitive community living mainly in forests in the Western Nepal. They mainly live in Surkhet and Mahendranagar area. Rekha will choose four 5 to 9 years old children to give shelter in RTF in Kathmandu.
Rekha is going to use all the fund collected by the screening of ‘Kali‘ in Hong Kong towards the cost of the Foundation. Rekha is accompanied by director Shyam Bhattarai and journalist Rabi Adhikari. (Photo credit – Filmyupdate, )
eVideoBuzz team wish Rekha Thapa success in her social work and also hope to contribute towards her selfless work in near future.
Nepali actress Rekha Thapa has returned back to Nepal on the evening of December 10, after the successful screening of her movie ‘Kali‘ in Hong Kong.
While in Hong Kong, Rekha talked about Rekha Thapa Foundation, a non-government organization helping backward community kids. In the event she told about the plan to help kids of Raute and Chepang communities. She has started the foundation with 3 kids and she is planning to help more orphan kids. The foundation is responsible for the upbringing and education of the children under it.
She also told to register herself as the mother of one of the kids to provide him with the citizenship certificate.
After returning back to Nepal, Rekha is going to start her next movie ‘Kamala’. Commercial success of the movie she produced without the help of her ex-husband, ‘Kali’ and relatively less successful of Chhabi’s movie ‘Loafer’ has encouraged the actress to produce another movie soon.
KATHMANDU, DEC 11 - Internet search engine Google has started translation of 9 more languages including Nepali . Four of the added languages are of Asian dialect.
With the start of Nepali language translation , it has been believed that Nepali language will be promoted in the international arena. Google had already started the translation of Hindi language of India.
With the extended service, Google is now capable of translating over 80 different languages. 'Google Translate' is Google's free online language translation service that instantly translates text and web pages. Although it claims to translate as a professional translator through language dictionary software, some errors have been reported in Nepali translation .
44.6 per cent people speak Nepali as their mother tongue, according to the national consensus of 2068 BS.
'Google Translate' will now support Nepali along with Punjabi, Maori--an indigenous language from New Zealand and Mongolian language as well. Punjabi is the ninth most spoken language all over the world.
KATHMANDU, DEC 10 - The government is upgrading four important trade routes to six-lane to facilitate bilateral trade with India and China.
Out the four routes, upgradation work has already started on Butwal-Belhiya and Rani-Itahari routes, while the work on Surya Binayak-Dhulikhel and Birjung-Pathalaiya sections is yet to begin.
Based on the importance of the routes, the Department of Roads (DoR) had implemented “Trade Route Improvement Project” to upgrade and widen the four selected sections of trade routes to six lanes three years ago.
The four routes play a vital role in the bilateral trade with the neighbouring countries.
Narrow roads , traffic congestions and lack of parking facility have long remained as major problems on these routes, according to traders.
“The widening of the road sections is expected to help make timely delivery of goods allowing easy movement of large trucks and containers,” said Shankar Prasad Pandey, chairman of Trade Committee of the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FNCCI).
He said despite increased traffic, the road infrastructure remained the same for years hindering cross-borders trade.
According to the Doing Business Index 2013 released last month by the World Bank, Nepal has not made any reforms when it comes to cross-border trade. The country slipped to 177th position in the trading across borders indicator in DBI 2013 from 173 earlier. Exporting a standard container requires 11 documents, takes 42 days and costs $2,295 from Nepal, according to the report.
Despite the need for an urgent upgradation, the department has not been able to carry out construction on all four sections at once due to budget constraints.
With the government failing to allocate adequate resources, the department is considering upgrade the 15.4 km Suryabinayak-Dhulikhel section of the Araniko Highway with soft loan from the Japan government. Similarly, a study is being carried out for the improvement of Birgunj-Pathlaiya (28 km) section under the build-own-operate and transfer (BOOT) modality.
“We are studying the feasibility for upgrading the road from Raxual to Pathlaiya under the BOOT system,” said Gopal Prasad Sigdel, chief of the Asset Management, Contract Management and Quality Control Project of the department, which oversees the Trade Route Improvement Project.
He said Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA) has been holding a study, expressing interest in providing soft loans to Nepal for the Suryabinayak-Dhulikhel section.
Department officials said Japan as expressed interest in providing the loan at 0.1 percent interest with a 30-year repayment period and 10-year grace period. The Tinkune-Suryabinayak section was also upgraded to six-lane under the Japanese grant assistance.
The Suryabinayak-Dhukhil section is estimated to require around Rs 3 billion, Birgunj-Pathalaiya Rs 5 billion, Butwal-Bhairahawa Rs 2.6 billion and Rani-Itahari Rs 4 billion. The government has planned to take the Rani-Itahari road to Dharan. The officials said the work is expected to complete within the next five-seven years.
The government this fiscal year provided Rs 940 million to the project (all four routes).
Currently, the department is working on a 5-km stretch of the Butwal-Belhiya (24.04 km) route and a 3-km stretch of the Rani-Itahari route.
Sigdel said that they would hire contractors for an additional 6-km stretch of the Butwal-Belhiya section and 5-km stretch of the Rani-Itahari section this year.
According to the department, the contractors will widen the road to six-lane (including a service lane) and also improve junctions by constructing bus stops, installing traffic and road safety measures, including road markings, signs and bridges.
Meanwhile, the government is also improving a 33-km section of the Narayanghat-Mugling road to the Asian Highway standard under a separate project named “Nepal-India Regional Trade and Transport Project”. (-Source: eKantipur.com)
Popping Crease Player of the Year: Cast Your Vote for 'Paras Khadka'
The man with possibly the biggest following outside Test cricket, Paras Khadka is the key man for Nepal. As a general rule of thumb, if Khadka has a good game, Nepal win. If he has a bad game, they lose. In the WCL and Qualifier, he had enough good games to lead Nepal to by far the most successful year in their cricketing history; the WCL Division Three winners are also off to Bangladesh. So Paras Khadka is selected as a nominee of "Popping Crease Player of the Year 2013". Give him your valuable vote to select as a winner. Now he is in Second position.
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KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 10 - A vehicle carrying Rs. 23.1 million of Nabil Bank, heading from Mahendranagar to Dhangadi, was robbed by unidentified masked men today.The heist took place at Malakheti-3, Chaukidanda along the Mahendranagar-Attaria road section when the vehicle was ferrying the cash from Mahendranagar branch of Nabil Bank to Nepal Rastra Bank's branch in Dhangadi.
According to police, four armed people dressed as traffic policemen stopped the vehicle mid-way and took control of the bank employees before making off with the cash. Police said the robbers had absconded with the money after taking the vehicle some three kilometers into the forest from the road.
The four employees of the bank were found at Kaluwapur in Kanchanpur, all in a blindfolded state. DIG of the Far Western Region Narayan Bastakoti has informed that police personnel have been deployed extensively around the region where the heist took place. (#Source: ImageKhabar.com)
Kathmandu has been listed third on the list of “rising travel destinations in the world” by Tripadvisor, one of the most reputed search engines for travelers. The capital city has also made its way on the top of the list for famous travel destinations in Asia.
Kathmandu, Nepal ranks just behind Havana in Cuba and La Fortuna de San Carlos in Costa Rica to make its place in third in the world rankings.
Along with the ranking, Traveladvisor has listed 65 must visit places in the Kathmandu valley that includes Bodnath stupa, Swayambhunath Temple, Changunarayan, Garden of Dreams and a lot of major tourist hubs rich with cultural and social heritages.
The Tripadvisor list of the major travel destinations in the world includes:
1. Havana, Cuba
2. La Fortuna de San Carlos, Costa Rica
3. Kathmandu, Nepal
4. Jerusalem, Israel
5. Cusco, Peru
6. Ambergris Caye, Belize
7. Sapporo, Japan
8. Hanoi, Vietnam
9. Corralejo, Spain
10. Fortaleza, Brazil
Kathmandu valley is blessed with seven of the world heritage sites in the world that includes the Kathmandu Durbar Square, Patan Durbar Square, Bhaktapur Durbar Square, Swayambhunath, Boudhanath, Pashupatinath and Changu Narayan.
Kathmandu is also the only destination to make its way on to the list from the South Asia in the top 10 list. Around 800,000 travels came to Nepal by air in 2012 and it also has been reported that the number of tourists arrivals is gradually rising from month to month in 2013.
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A 15-member Squad has been announced by the Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) for the ICC WC Qualifiers tournament, that is going to take place in New Zealand from 13th January to 1st February, 2014.
The first choice 15 member squad includes Paras Khadka (captain), Gyanendra Malla (vice Captain), Sompal Kami, Shakti Gauchan, Sharad Vesawakar, Basant Regmi, Pradeep Airee, Binod Bhandari, Prithu Baskota, Anil Mandal, Subash Khakurel (wicket keeper), Jitendra Mukhiya, Avinash Karna, Sagar Pun and Mahesh Chhetri.
Rahul V.K, Amrit Bhattarai, RamNaresh Giri and Naresh Bahadur Budhayair have also been selected as the reserves.
The inclusion of a young pace bowler Sompal Kami came after his impressing performance in the U-19 National Tournament as well as in the matches of Journey to World Cup where Nepal came second after losing to Air India team in the final.
Also, Prithu Baskota got back to the team after recovering from a knee injury that kept him sidelined in the T20 World Cup Qualifying matches.
Team Nepal has been included alongside UAE, Scotland, Hong Kong and Canada in the Group A for e 50-over (One-Dayers) World Cup.
All the best Team Nepal!
Nepal Airlines booking is open. You can book Nepal Airlines flight within a minute. For booking domestic flights and international flights by Nepal Airlines, it is quite difficult as Nepal Airlines do not have its online flight booking website for Nepal. So, for Nepal Airlines Booking, you can contact Nepal Airlines Office with the phone numbers listed below.
Nepal Airlines Booking
Nepal Airlines Pokhara: 061-465021, 061-463013
Nepal Airlines Jomsom: 069-440081
Nepal Airlines Manang: 019-442000
Nepal Airlines Lukla: 984286869
Nepal Airlines Bharatpur: 056-530470
Nepal Airlines Biratnagar: 021-470661, 021-470336
Nepal Airlines Bhojpur: 029-420167
Nepal Airlines Phaplu: 038-520167
Nepal Airlines Rumjatar: 037-540114
Nepal Airlines Taplejung: 024-460167
Nepal Airlines Lamidanda: 036-690205
Nepal Airlines Tumlingtar: 029-569167
Nepal Airlines Kangeldanda: 9741068402
Nepal Airlines Thamkharka: 033-620985
Nepal Airlines Khanidanda: 9743001494
Nepal Airlines Nepalgunj: 081-520767
Nepal Airlines Bajhang: 092-421009
Nepal Airlines Bajura: 9741105585
Nepal Airlines Dolpa: 087-670081
Nepal Airlines Rukum: 9847936568
Nepal Airlines Simikot: 087-680037
Nepal Airlines Jumla: 087-520093
Nepal Airlines Talcha: 9748900647
Nepal Airlines Chaurjhari: 9741062940
Nepal Airlines is a pioneer airlines company of Nepal with lots of flight to different parts of Nepal daily. On comparison to other airline companies, Nepal Airlines has cheap flight fares to different part in Nepal. Nepal Airlines run its domestic as well as international flights. Nepal Airlines Booking is available over here.
DOHA , DEC 10 - Police in Qatar have taken 400 migrant Nepali workers to the ‘deportation centre’ after they began a protest against their employer Exblowra Company, asking the Qatar i authority to arrange for their safe passage home.
The workers claimed that the company did not provide them agreed salary and food allowance.
The company on Thursday shifted the Nepali workers from its labour camp in Al Shahaniya to a new location in New Sailiya.
“Our basic salary is 450 riyals and there is no food allowance. The company does not provide at the new camp and there is no shop nearby,” said Ramendra Mahato of Siraha who has been working at the company for the past six years.
The police cordoned off the camp on Friday after the disgruntle workers intensified their protest to press their demands.
“We demanded to provide a basic salary of 900 riyals and additional 300 riyals for food as fixed by the government. We decided to return home as the company failed to address our demand,” said Ram Babu Yadav of Dhanusha, adding that the company had even charged them for visa.
Labour attaché Indra Dev Pandey at Nepali Embassy in Qatar said that the company agreed to raise the salary but the workers could not be convinced.
He informed that the workers would be repatriated to Nepal once the company provides their perks and salaries. “We will arrange air tickets and start sending them home from Tuesday,” said Pandey. (#Source: eKantipur.com)
eVideoBuzz team wishes noted director Shiva Regmi rest in peace.
He died at 5:30 AM on December 9, 2013 at the Bayodha Hospital in Kalanki, Kathmandu. We have prepared a life story video of Shiva Regmi to pay tribute to his contribution to nepali entertainment industry.:
On December 7, the doctors had given hopes and predicted him to die within hours. The condition improved and he lived in ventilator for a couple of days before giving up on life.
Shiva Regmi was air lifted from Chitwan when his condition worsened. Both of his kidneys had failed and the medical conditions didn’t allowed him to perform the kidney transplant operation. His brother was willing to donate his kidney but, the donation operation never occurred.
