Ashar 15 photos #ropayi #greenktm

Ashar 15- National paddy day also known as "Ropayi Mahotsav" is celebrated in the country with various programs. Many Organizations, Political parties, tourists and locals took to the paddy field to celebrate the festival by planting rice, singing folk songs, dancing & playing with the mud. Farmers are known to be happy with the adequate rain this year and are wishing for high production whereas other people are just having fun, being indifferent to the level of rice production. People also take bitten rice with curd as Ashad 15 (Ashar pandhra)...

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Pjclub announces the winners of photo contest 2069 (with photos)

Pjclub (Photo Journalist club, Nepal) has announced the list of winners for the photo contest 2069 which is the biggest photo competition in the country. With the list of winners in each category from Daily life to Nature & Wild life to News to Culture & Tourism to Sports to Nepal Smiles not forgetting the Photo story, the photo of the year has been awarded to Shailendra Kharel for the photo of two women with a child, stranded at Lete VDC, Mustang due to Landslide in 2010. But it is not clear for which category, had the photographer submitted...

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Jhola Nepali movie in the coming.

Click here for review of movie Jhola. It may sound distressing to many, even if you hear of people burnt alive in the 20th century in our country. That time, widowed woman had to self immolate on her husband funeral fire to be called a good wife (Sati) for this life: a myth in the medieval time. Now the abolished malpractice of Sati Pratha, is being put in a Nepali movie named "Jhola: Sati Ek Kupratha" which is based on a popular short story "Jhola" written by Krishna Dharabasi. The story based on the early decades of twentieth century,...

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Google to use network of ballons for internet in remote areas.

Google's next big announcement after project glass and driver less car is an innovation to provide internet access in remote areas. As 2 out of 3 people on earth are out of reach to internet, Google intends to use hot air ballons, flying 20 km above the earth to provide wireless coverage below where terrestrial connectivity is too much to get. Named as project loon, Google experiments the use of series of solar powered ballons that flows with the wind in the stratosphere (above airplanes and weather) to provide 3G like internet speed. 13...

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Karkash Nepali movie review

Famed music video director Asif Shah's directorial debut Karkash has opened pretty well with good occupancy in theaters. The QFX show I watched was almost full, which I think is due to the huge publicity, humor content and the popular actors. Now the real concern is if it is going to maintain the good start. ***********Spolier alert********** Karkash is a dark humor with a very nice script and shocking comedy that arise well along the 2 hour long adult certified movie. Karkash- a rock band in Thamel is in search of a vocalist as the...

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