Manakamana, a film shot in Nepal with Nepali Characters has been placed in a BBC’s list of top 10 films of 2013. Shot in Nepal by director Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez, the film documents breath-taking journey of group of pilgrims to the Holy Temple of Manakamana. Tom Brook, film critic at BBC, picked top…
Services projects are on the rise, and more and more tourists are looking to travel in meaningful ways. The increase of “voluntourism” programs are capitalizing on foreigners’ desire to connect with locals and give back to communities through unique experiences. Unfortunately, not every volunteer-travel operator provides the training or skills necessary for these projects. While…
Around 6,722 graduates from various faculties and institutes of Tribhuvan University participated in the 39th convocation ceremony of TU at the university’s cricket ground in Kirtipur. Chairman of Interim Government of Nepal, Khil Raj Regmi, in his capacity as the Chancellor of TU, distributed honours to the attending students. Along with Regmi, education minister Madhav…
It’s not a Travel Agency! At least not your regular travel agency with commercial motives. Based on social grounds of uniting Nepali youths in abroad and the idea of encouraging them to know more about Nepal, a team of Nepali youths in the UK have come up with a unique travel event – Tracing Nepal….
While the public schools are preparing for increasing the tuition fees, a private educational institution of Kathmandu Valley, Samata Sikshya Niketan, has started its higher education programs for only NRs. 100 per month. Samata College, under the affiliation from Tribhuvan University, has started course offering of four-year management and three-year humanities stream. Samata College was…
11th edition of the Miss Teen Nepal, the second biggest beauty pageant in Nepal after Miss Nepal has been scheduled to be held at the Jamal Nachghar complex on 31st December this year. Held by Kathmandu Jaycees with the Republica as the main sponsors, teen girls aged 16-19 are participating in the beauty pageant competition….
For the first time in the history, FIFA World Cup Trophy has landed in Nepal today! The authentic cup of the World Cup tournament was unveiled in Nepal today at Dashrath stadium amongst 7,500+ lucky observers. Mr. Ram Baran Yadav, President of Nepal revealed the World Cup Trophy in presence of several officials and selected…
You wouldn’t believe how the face of Kathmandu is changing over next three years, or at least has been proposed to change. Nepal government’s visionary plan of overhauling the capital’s ring road structure has kicked off already and it will be interesting to see fantastic changes in road infrastructure developments of the valley. Eight lanes…
Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has increased load shedding from seven to nine hours a day which is to be implemented as per the new schedule starting from Tuesday today. According the the new loadshedding schedule published by NEA, Nepali people would face a total of 63 hours without electricity in a week. The government’s efforts…
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,…