Cheers to Shanti Sewa Griha for being one of the two runner up from hundred of entries in the BBC World Challenge 2008! Two runner up of the World Challenge 08 Shanti Sewa Griha (Nepal) and Agricultural School (Paraguay) each received a grant of USD $10,000. Shanti Sewa Griha is a self-sufficient society for leprosy victims and [...]

Miss Russia 2007, Ksenia Sukhinova, returned home from Johannesburg with the Miss World crown and Miss India, Parvathy Omankuttan, managed to grab the runner-up position in the Miss World finals held on December 13, 2008. I am not talking about the Russian beauty or the Indian beauty who, we might be seeing a lot in Hindi [...]

Artists have created zero-dollar bills for artistic purposes and to get publicity. But in the East it is used for some noble cause. A local NGO, Pro Public, released a zero-rupees note in notes as a symbolic fight against corruption in Nepal. The move looks like a copy of similar act in India against corruption. [...]

Nepal’s first aircraft, named in honor of National bird Danfe, built by young Nepali engineers has successfully completed its test flight in Pokhara, a Western city of Nepal. The the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) opposed the test flight previously, citing security reasons and lack of policy on such an experimentation. The aircraft was built [...]

Are the future workforce in the largest economy in the world ethically sound? Recent survey shows that more teens are stealing from stores, lying to parents, and cheating in school in the US. In the Josephson Institute’s 2008 Report Card on the Ethics of American Youth based on a survey of nearly 30,000 students in high [...]

I talked about how Nepali people worship dogs in my previous post on Tihar. In a rare occasion, dogs were worshiped in UK and Duchess of Cornwall participated on the dog walk to support a Nepali organization. To support Kathmandu Animal Treatment (KAT) center and Kathmandu Arts Centre, Nepal, Camilla Parker Bowles, the wife of Prince [...]

Edna Parker, who became the world’s oldest person more than a year ago, has died at the age of 115 years and 220 days. She died on 26 November at a nursing home in Shelbyville. She outlived two sons and had 5 grandchildren who gave her 13 great-grandchildren and 13 more great-great-grandchildren. She used to tell [...]

Ram Bahadur Bomjam (Palden Dorje), 18, known as ‘Buddha Boy’ made news all around the world when he meditated motionless for months without water, food or sleep under a tree in a remote village of Nepal. Local and international scientists unsuccessfully tried to explain his unique meditation technique. For the second time he made international headlines [...]

According to the latest data released from the Institute of International Education (IIE), the students from Nepal to the US institutions have increased by 15.2% in 2007/08. Nepali students in the US cover about 1.4% of total foreign students. India tops the list with 15.2% followed by China with 13.0%. In the past year Nepal [...]

Shocking reality of unprotected sex among teens came out when the web site of The Tyra Banks Show, TyraShow.com, took an anonymous survey in which more than 10,000 young girls participated. The survey showed that some girls (14%) are having sex at school. On average the girls loose virginity at 15. The survey also [...]

19-year-old Kristina Dimitrova from Bulgaria and 24 years old Andrei Andrei from Romania are the proud winner of the world’s best bum contest. The event was organised by the underwear maker Sloggi. Dimitrova and Andrei contested among 43 candidates from 28 countries in the final held in Munich. Here is the Reuters video coverage of [...]

Tihar, second biggest festival in Nepal, is a five-day festival celebrated in late autumn. It is unique in terms of how people celebrate it. One of these days incorporates the Hindu festival Deepavali so it is also called the festival of lights. It also incorporates one of the Nepali community’s New Year (called Nepal Sambat). [...]

Murder convict Charles Sobhraj on Wednesday tied the knot with his 20-year-old Nepali fiancée, Nihita Biswas, on the day of Bada Dashain, greatest festival in Nepal. Nihita, 44 years younger than Charles, married in the jail where he is kept, after being sentenced to life imprisonment in July 2004. There was no priest though the bride’s [...]

The last Kumari, the Living Goddess, who retired recently was sort of a rebel in the age old Nepali tradition of worshiping little girls as goddess. Amidst child right groups’ objection on the tradition itself, three and half year old Matina Shakya has become the new Kumari. She has become the first Kumari who was shown [...]

The Lukla airport, (Tenzing-Hillary airport) in the eastern Nepal is considered one of the world’s most dangerous airports. In today’s news, a Yeti Airlines plane crashed during landing at the airport killing at least 14 passengers, mostly tourists. It is told that the sole survivor is a Nepali passenger. The airport is located at an elevation [...]

Deepak Sharma Bajgain, 23, has been included in the Guinness Book of World Record for reading continuously for 121 hours. He made the new world record during The Longest Marathon Reading, a program organized in Kathmandu by The Readers Club from Sept. 19 to 24, as reported in Kantipur daily. Bajgain continuously read different books [...]

Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska and the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 2008 United States presidential election, not only is the first woman and the first Alaskan to run on the Republican party’s presidential ticket but also the winner of the Miss Wasilla Pageant beauty contest. She finished third (second runner-up) in 1984 Alaska [...]

To help celebrate its 10th birthday, Google - the internet giant is offering to spend $10 million for fresh ideas that can change people’s lives. If you think you have ideas that are beneficial to the world why don’t you tell Google to fund it? Here’s the link to the site. If you are going to [...]

Gautam Sapkota, from Hetauda, Nepal has set a World Record for most birds-calls imitating. He mimicked 151 different types of birds-setting for the record. It is told that Gautam Sapkota has visited more than 6,500 schools in 45 districts of Nepal, interacting, entertaining and educating the kids about birds, their habitats, their ways of life and [...]

Life is not that easy! If you don’t agree ask Ramchandra Katuwal, 49, from of Khandbari-11, Nepal. He married for the first time at the age of 26 but his wife eloped shortly following which he married again. The process continued unabated until he married his 25th wife. That was a marathon 25 marriages until [...]