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Jul 27, 2012

Bansulli Selected for Venice Film Festival.

Six months after the selection of a feature film Highway in Berlin Film Festival, We Nepalese are pleased to get the news of selection of Nepali short film Bansulli for the Venice Film Festival this year. This is the first time any Nepali movie is being selected for the world's old and fame film festival- Venice Film Festival.The short film out stands from a list of 1742 short films from all around the world to the top 18 selected for the festival. 15 minute long Short Movie is based on the changes in a 12 year old Jumli girl during Constituent...

Former IG, Nepal Police, Achyut Krishna Kharel revealed K.P Dhungana's book entitled Open Secret in an event inside Nepal Police Academy, Exhibition Road. Shiva Gaunle, Nepal federation of Journalists and Kishor Nepal, Nagarik were also there to launch the book. K.P Dhungana is a Nagarik scribe with more than decade in journalism and to be precise six years in crime and security reporting. According to K.P Dhungana, 'Open Secret' deals with seven real life murders in Nepal- from Mirza Dilshad Beg to Kamal Singh Nepali to Majid...

International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge is meeting with the world's press. He opened the session with: 'I can say with pleasure that London is ready and that we are eagerly waiting for the Opening Ceremony.' We're eagerly awaiting too! This is just a glimpse of the readiness of London to host the 2012 Summer Olympics and the opening ceremony is just 10 hours away after seven years of preparations. The three-hour spectacle in the Olympic Stadium will be viewed by a global TV audience of around a billion people....

Fame TV presenter/Music Video Director/Model Suraj Singh Thakuri is going to act in a new nepali movie named Karkas to be made by Music Video Director/ Former Tv Presenter Asif Shah. Asif Shah and Suraj Singh Thakuri are known to be good friends from the moment they started their TV career and they have also acted together in Sugam Pokharel's Mero Euta Sathi cha music video. G21 productions venture 'Karkas' is known to be a musical movie about a band in Thamel and the relationship between the band members. There will be no original OST for...

Special Court Jails Govinda Raj Joshi for Corruption.

Former Minister and NC leader Govinda Raj Joshi is convicted of the corruption charges by Special Court today on the graft case filed by Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA). Court with the bench of judges Gauri Bahadur Karki, Om Prakash Mishra and Kedar Prasad Chalise gives the verdict to jail him for 1.5 years and slapped a penalty of Rs 21.4 million. Eight Years ago, CIAA filed a case alleging him of corruption of Rs 39.3 million by abusing authority during his home ministry tenure. Earlier in 2006, SC acquitted...

Kathaa teasers and trailer.

Prashant Rasailly's second directorial act, this time with his own story Kathaa starring Saugat Malla, Usha Rajak is known to be a horror flick. The movie was shot in high altitude of Gyantok, Sikkim and it was completed in just 14 days. Movie's post production is currently going on in Mumbai. Prashant recently released two teasers for the movie. First teaser just shows two moving hands and we could tell the two hands to be from two lead characters of Saugat Malla and Usha Rajak whereas second teaser shows Saugat Malla asking Usha Rajak...

Lalitpur Bandh called off.

Struggle committee for agitation against the temporary settlements of Thapathali squatters in Malpokhari, Sundarighat has called off the strike yesterday evening. Citing Nagapanchami and some time needed for more strong agitation, committee told media of the withdrawal of the three day Lalitpur strike for the third day. Cadres from political parties like UML, Maoist-Baidha were actively involved in the agitation. Normal life in Lalitpur was affected yesterday with the strike, and dozens of agitators were held by Police after rounds of clashes...

Film-maker Gyanendra Deuja attempts suicide.

Nepali Movie Director Gyanendra Deuja today had pesticides for an attempt to kill himself. He was immediately taken to Nepal Medical College Jorpati at around 6:30 pm. According to hospital, He is in very critical state in Intensive Care Unit (ICU). It is not known clearly why the film maker has attempted suicide. Some media writes he lost his property in a Casino and that made him kill himself. His movie based on Laxmi Prasad Devkota's epic poem Muna Madan, was just released one week before, almost 8 years after the making of the cinema. His...

For all the Photographers who are looking for compact like size camera with features of DSLR, here is the first Mirror-less camera (MILC) from photo giant, Canon. Canon has finally launched its first mirrorless interchangeable lens camera (ILC), the EOS M, that comes fitted with an APS-C sensor. Sporting a 3-inch capacitive touchscreen, the EOS M boasts many features found in the EOS 650D, such as a hybrid AF autofocus system and a Movie Servo AF mode for real-time focusing. Here are the main features of EOS M. 18 MP APS-C CMOS censor:...

Lyrics of Fireflies by Indus Creed.

Fireflies grim tales by fairy lights we sat mesmerised, mesmerised dancing iridescence in your eyes like fireflies partners in devilment we grabbed each day, unafraid but the cold hands of consequence broke the spell and wrecked the game oh, the sun went out today for reasons you won’t say and i just can’t look away from those fireflies naked rage or self-defense will we ever know, who’ll let go no remorse or penitence can save the raft from the undertow oh, the sun went out today and the colours burned into gray but i just can’t look away from...

ZTE has announced today that they have introduced a smartphone that runs the new Android Jelly Bean OS (Android 4.1). Named as ZTE N880E, it is the first smartphone in China to have Jelly bean support and is the third one in the world to have the latest Android OS. The ZTE N880E smart phone has a 4.0-inch capacitive WVGA touchscreen, with a 1GHz Qualcomm 7627A processor, 4GB of memory and a 3.2MP AF camera. It is an ultra-slim device with just 10.4mm in thickness. The ZTE N880E was originally launched in May 2012 running Android 2.3...

Second day of Lalitpur Bandh

Locals in Sundharighat now with the help of several opposition parties are enforcing Lalitpur bandh second day in a row for a 3 day long bandh (strike) program to protest the temporary settlements of Thapathali squatters in Sundharighat, Malpokhari. Locals have been arguing that the relocation of the squatters in their area will have negative impact on the environment and the beauty of their inhabitant. They have been pressurizing Government to stop constructing temporary huts in Malpokhari area, Sundarighat. Yesterday, Police had barred people...

Milind Soman in MTV Rush.

Model turned Actor/Producer Milind Soman was one of the person who told media about the latest TV show on MTV, in its press meet. Today he is seen in the second Episode of the TV series. MTV Rush is a 13 part TV series featuring 12 college students revolving around a college festival also called Rush. Rush chronicles the angst, turmoil and the adrenaline rush of forty eight hours of action. The same 48 hours are lived in 12 different ways. The viewers witness key turning points in the protagonists’ lives like giving up one’s virginity, sabotaging...

Now this is official.... Pranab Mukherjee will be the 13th President of India. Even before the election took place on July 19, UPA backed candidate Pranab Mukherjee seemed as a frontrunner to win the race. But now with the count results, Pranab mukherjee- the congress insider and former minster for many portfolio, will be the first person of India, by winning over opposition candidate P. Sangama. He secured 71 percent of the total electoral representative votes having totality of 4,896 electors including 776 MPs and 4,120 MLAs. Read...

Seventh largest country by area and inhabitant of 1.2 billion people, India-the largest democracy on earth has started counting votes for its head of state- the president elections held on July 19- 3 days back. The election which elects President from the members of both House of parliament and legislative assemblies of the States, has two candidates- former finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and Former Chief Minister of Meghalaya Purno Sangama. Ruling Coalition UPA backed Pranab Mukherjee is already seen as the next president who is going to replace...

Highway Nepali Movie review

I am not starting with the downsides of the movie as I know that would not be a positive criticism. Acclaimed in Berlin Film Festival and still earning more, Highway is a tale of several relationships bound together by a bus journey from Illam to Kathmandu. The best part of the movie is the nice attachment of the characters with the journey and some sort of inter-relation between the stories which is the first time in a Nepali cinema that so many stories got intermingled. The movie has rightly portrayed the strikes: Jams, Andolans...

TDKR Review.

Yes, TDKR is here and the ultima Batman trilogy with Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne and his alter-ego 'Batman' is stunning and lives up to the hype it has been creating. But there are too many unbelievable shots that will keep your mouth open for sometime. Six minute long preview has lot to say about the movie where a plane is jacked by another plane from a group of mercenaries and there u get introduced to a mumbling but furious character having a metal respiratory mask in his face ..it's outrageous 'Bane' who is believed to be a child that is...

Dont Forget to Read TDKR Review here.Speaking to Anne Hathaway about her role 'Catwoman' in the latest final installment of Batman movie TDKR, David Letterman in his late night show revealed Batman will be dead. But he appeared to be joking when he said "And at the end, Batman is dead". Anna Hathaway after a shocking pause told Letterman that he had no idea the wrath he had just incurred, and issuing an apology to director Christopher Nolan. But does that mean Letterman revealed a major plot for the last Batman movie or is that just a joke........

NEA celebrates it's golden jubilee.

Nepal Engineers Association (NEA) is celebrating its golden jubilee in a week long program. Marking the 50 glorious years of Engineering professionalism and leadership, NEA already organized different programs like Tree Plantation, Marathon, Blood Donation, and Poem Competition. NEA is also organizing a two day celebration program from today marking the day when NEA was officially registered with then Government of Nepal on Shrawan 3rd back in 2019 B.S as a non-profit organization. Honarable President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav inaugurated the Golden...

India’s first superstar – these words are spoken only in context of Rajesh Khanna. He inspired mass hysteria during his time, women fainted, wrote their number on his car in lipstick, wanted to get married to him and even sent him letters written in blood. While there had been stars even before Rajesh Khanna, Rajkumar, Dilip Kumar, but Kaka was special. His mannerisms, his style, his dialogue delivery. Rajesh Khanna was born Jatin Khanna in Amritsar in 1942. He moved with relatives of his biological parents who adopted him to...

Deep Purple's Jon Lord dies at age 71.

British rocker Jon Lord, the keyboardist whose powerful, driving tones helped turn Deep Purple and Whitesnake into two of the most popular hard rock acts in a generation, died Monday. He was 71. A statement on Lord's official website says the Leicester, England-born musician suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism in London after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. "Jon passed from Darkness to Light," the statement said. Lord co-wrote some of Deep Purple's most famous tunes, including "Smoke on the Water," and later had a successful solo...

Steven Covey, the author of "Seven habits of highly Effective People" and other two, died Monday at the age of 79 due to a bicycle accident in April. He was once named as the one of the influential people in the world by Time Magazine. His 'seven habits' book sold 20 million copies worldwide and his speech for 'how to be effective' made people spellbound to his words. I had the opportunity to take the seven habits training with one of his fellow along with the top managers of my company giving lip service to the principle but the excercises...

Top Ten Songs about Rain.

People always love to listen to songs about rain when it's actually pouring down, it's just like people listening to breakup songs when they are dumped or bound to leave. Shrawan (month of rain: Jhari) has just started from today so here is my favorite list of songs about rain (without any ranking). 1.The Beatles: Rain 2. BJ Thomas: Raindrops Keep Fallin' 3. The Cascades Rhythm of the Falling Rain 4. Guns N roses November Rain. 5. James Taylor: Fire and Rain. 6. Adele: Set Fire to the Rain. 7. Counting Crows: Rain King. 8. CCR: Who will...

Rumor: iPhone 5 releases in August first week.

If latest rumors are of something to be true, then the most awaited iPhone 5 releases next month. Previously it was leaked that the new iPhone will be released in October 5, marking the day of Apple co-founder Steve Job's first Death Anniversary. But due to sales boom of Android phone like Samsung Galaxy S3 and the new android 4.1 (Jelly Bean), people expected the iPhone to release earlier than that. According to knowyourmobile, the next iPhone will be unveiled during an event in August 7 along with the Latest Apple OS iOS 6. Last Year iPhone 4S...

Best Foreign language Songs 2012 (so far)

Here are some songs from different countries having native language other than English, and which went big in in the year 2012 till now. Some of the songs like the ones from Michel Telo and Gustavo Lima from Brazil stormed the charts in different countries Whereas popular Spanish singer Alejadro Sanz just topped the Spanish chart in July 2012 with the song No me compares. S.Korean Boy band Exo-M stormed charts in Korea as well as China with their debut single Mama. Enjoy the songs with the tunes and melodies as music has no barriers...

Flood in seti (Pokhara).

Rise in water level of Seti River due to heavy rain inundated houses in Ramghat Bagar Area during midnight yesterday. About 30 houses were flooded in the river bank area. People went to their roof tops to save themselves from the flood. Nepal Police and APF were deployed to rescue people from the flood, with the help of boats taken from lakeside. No casualties were found in the incident. Water Level started to decline after 2 am in the morning and it came as a relief to many in the wee hours. Detail reports are yet to come. ...

Prachanda's son Prakash and student leader Bina eloped??

Update 2: Bina Magar, Student Leader from ANISU-R ,who is suspected to have eloped with Prakash Dahal, is also suspended from the student wing of UCPN- Maoist. This suspension comes a day after UCPN-M suspended Prakash from Newa Rajya Committee. Update: Confirming Prakash's extra-marital affair, UCPN Maoist has expelled him from Newa Rajya Committee Member and decided to investigate on his relationship with Bina Magar soon. UCPN Maoist supremo Prachanda's Son Prakash comes into controversy quite often, be it being spotted as a drunkard in hotel...

New Zealand claims the world's first film to be sold to the public as a 4K resolution file you can actually own at home. Called "TimeScapes," the movie is the brainchild of Orange County photographer and former serviceman Tom Lowe and New Zealand composer Nigel Stanford. It's a 50-minute film featuring some pretty stunning night sky cinematography, and just one frame of the film (the image below) won 2010 astronomy photo of the year. The film is available in a number of different formats with the highest bit rate 4K version on its own...

Is your PC infected by a Malware that cuts your Internet access tommorow?

As many as 43 PC from Nepal are infected with a Malware (according to this list) that could make you loose internet connection on Monday. With which about a quarter-million computer users around the world are at risk of losing Internet access on Monday unless they do a quick check of their computers for malware that could have taken over their machines more than a year ago. FBI has opened a website www.dcwg.org that will help you check and remove the malware. Go to http://www.dns-ok.us/ to check if your computer is infected with the Malware. If...

Dutch blog NieuweMobiel spotted the elusive Nokia Lumia 910 on Nokia's application testing program for developers, and speculates that the device may be the first to run on Windows Phone 8.The Lumia 910 was initially rumored to be launching this past May, however that did not happen and after months of rumors Nokia still hasn't given any official word on it. Now that it's shown up on their app-testing program, it's safe to assume that the Lumia 910 will eventually surface and it's more than likely going to run on Windows Phone 8 since Windows...

Jism 2 title track inspired or copied?

In an industry where many musicians give outstanding melodious song not from their own but copied or inspired from foreign songs, Sunny Leon debut and Pooja Bhatt directed Movie Jism 2 adds in its title track in the list. And another debut is also from the composer Arko Pravo Mukherjee, who likes to put it as being inspired. The title track 'Ye Jism hai' is in the latest plagiarism controversy that is identified by netizens to be close to two turkish songs Kayahan's "Bizimkisi bir ask hikayesi",and the other is Bengu's "Unut beni". Kayahan is a...

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