New loadshedding schedule December 17 2013 (Poush 2, 2070)

NEA (Nepal Electricity Authority)- the government owned sole authority for generating and distributing electricity in the country, has announced fresh schedule of loadshedding in the country. With the new loadshedding schedule effective from December 17, 2013 (Poush 2, 2070), there will be nine hours power cut daily, which is increment of 3 hours per day.  Due to reduction of water level in the river, the country falls short of about 400 Mega watt electricity compelling to cut the power for 63 hours per week, which may be increased...

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Fifa World cup 2014 football draw officially announced.

Final draw for Fifa World cup 2014 football Brazil ( from 12th June to 13 July 2014), has been made at an special ceremony at Costa de Saupa Resort, Mata de Sao Joao in Bahia. After paying tribute to revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela (who died today aged 95), the final draw has been made with the already defined procedure (click to know). Altogether 32 countries from Africa, Asia, America, and Europe are allocated to eight groups, each containing 4 teams, with the timings and stadium location of each match being already defined. With the...

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Motorola to build modular smartphones with Project Ara.

Motorola, a Google company is known to be working on Project Ara, an open source initiative for modular smartphones i.e. using separate modules for camera, processor, screen etc and assembling all to make a smartphone. In a bid to make phone last longer and reduce electronic waste, Motorola team up with phonebloks to make a smartphone by connecting detachable bloks to the base (endoskeleton or endo). You can easily upgrade or repair the bloks, thereby reducing the waste from the worn out/obsolete phones. If this modular approach is achievable...

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Kathmandu is among the top travel destination in the World: TripAdvisor

Travel website TripAdvisor has revealed the winners of 2013 traveller's choice awards for the destination on the rise. The destinations were selected according to the data collected in their websites from searches and reviews. 54 places across the globe were enlisted that have seen the greatest increase in positive feedback and interest from the travelers in the last year. Havana, Cuba is in the top spot in the world, seconding La Fortuna de San Carlos, Costa Rica and our very own Kathmandu is in the third favorite destination in the world....

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Chauka Chakka hanincha World cup khelincha: Nepali cricket team victory rally in Kathmandu

There were news regarding the huge crowd in the airport to welcome Nepali Cricket team back to their country, after their world cup t20 qualification in UAE. It was known that the crowd loudly chanted, "chaukka chakka hanincha world cup khelincha"( we will hit 4s 6s in the world cup play), but I missed taking video as I was not there. Today there was the procession of Nepali cricket team in Kathmandu, which I met accidentally during my office work and stopped to take the video of the victory rally.  Lets hope our boys will play up to the...

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Sachin Tendulkar to visit Nepal.

Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar after retiring from Cricket, has become UNICEF's goodwill ambassador for South Asia to promote hygiene and sanitation in this part of the world where lots of children die of diarrhea. The god of cricket will be travelling across the region to help people use toilets and use proper sanitation. Sachin at the signing ceremony said to media: "Post Cricket, the second innings of my life as a goodwill ambassador will be equally important and means a lot to me". He also added " In the end we want to make our world...

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Top Ten Narayan Gopal Songs

Swor Samrat Narayan Gopal needs no introduction to all the nepali music lovers out there. His evergreen songs are not only air played in radio stations throughout the country but are still found in the playlist of the new generation people. Today (Mangsir 19) is the death anniversary of Nepal's most popular singer of all time, marking which I am posting my Top ten favorite songs from him (that are in my phone playlist), though all of his songs are equally outstandingly melodious. 1. Malai Nasodha. 2. Yati Chokho. 3. Euta Mancheko. 4....

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World Twenty20 cricket 2014 schedule: Nepal first entry to world t20

Nepal created a history by making an entry to the ICC world T20 Cricket 2014 that is going to be held in Bangladesh from 16 March to 6 April. After the thrilling victory over Hongkong (for qualification) and lose to Afghanistan, Nepal even secured third place in the world t20 qualifier tournament with the defeat over UAE by 5 wickets. Six teams ( Nepal, Afghanistan, Ireland, Hongkong, UAE and Netherlands) from the tournament join Bangladesh and Zimbabwe for the preliminary round, forming two groups whose top team will be joining the other...

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