Janai Purnima and Raksha Bandhan
Sat, August 16, 2008, 3:49 pm

Tody is the day of Janai Purnima is known as the Sacred Thread Festival. On this day Hindu men, especially the Brahmans and Chettris perform their annual change of Janai, a yellow cotton string worn across the chest or tied around the wrist of the right hand.
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New Nepal, Youths, and the Irony
Tue, August 12, 2008, 2:51 pm

The deracination of monarchical system recently paved the way for republican Nepal which can be taken as one of the crucial steps in the procedure of building new Nepal. Nobody can confute this fact that to bring this situation as the foundation of New Nepal, Nepali youths as the major force of the campaign had played a vital role.
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Can green glass bangles bring love?
Wed, July 16, 2008, 3:37 pm

During Shrawan, (the fourth month, or the holy month, according to Nepali calender), green rules not only the natural environment but also the hands of Nepalese women. The tinkling sound of green glass bangles (hariyo kaanch ko chura in Nepalese) plays an important role in the month of Shrawan.

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When politics losses its glamour
Thu, July 10, 2008, 10:46 pm

Politics in Nepal is being polluted in recent years so that many people especially youngsters are frustrated from the face of our politics. People have a conception that politics is a dirty game that always uplifts politicians but didn't give any relief to the subalterns.
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Special thanks go to Nepal
Fri, June 13, 2008, 5:21 pm

More than half of all the Member States of the United Nations contribute troops and police to peacekeeping operations. We are grateful to every one of them. But our special thanks go to the top contributors, of which Nepal ranks in the first five. Over the past 50 years, Nepal has contributed 60,000 peacekeepers in some 40 peacekeeping missions.
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I would live in Nepal
Thu, June 12, 2008, 2:19 pm

Dear Nepalese brothers and sisters ! This country which came into being 240 years back as a garden of four castes and thirty-six sub castes as imagined and established by our ancestor His Majesty, the Great King Prithvi Narayan Shah, is going through a period of very serious and sensitive upheaval.
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Nepal has many challenges ahead
Sat, May 24, 2008, 1:13 am

Next Wednesday, 28th of May, Nepal’s Constituent Assembly will open its first meeting, following the historic April 10 Constituent Assembly election. I just briefed the Security Council this morning on the basis of the report of the Secretary-General, which as you know, reports on the circumstances and results of that election.
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Gurkhas flock to British army
Fri, May 23, 2008, 2:54 pm

Two centuries later, young men are still being drawn from their poverty-stricken Himalayan hills by the thousands to fight — and die — with legendary valor for another man's country far away.
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Thamel: From Treks to Sex
Thu, May 22, 2008, 7:58 pm

I can only dance when I'm drunk," confides Srijana, a 20-year-old employee of the Pussy Cat Bar and Shower, a tavern in Thamel, Kathmandu's main tourist hangout. A few slurps from a customer's glass later and she mounts a small stage.
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Sahara Rescues Street Children
Wed, April 16, 2008, 12:50 am

Three years ago, Mahendra BK was a 12-year-old boy living on the street in Pokhara, a middle-sized Nepalese town with a population of around 200,000. His mother died when he was still an infant and then his alcoholic father died of tuberculosis when Mahendra was only eight. 
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