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  • Nepali-Canadian first to climb Everest without prosthetic limbs

    In a bid to prove to the world that "disability was not inability", Sudharshan Gautam, a Nepali-Canadian citizen, became the first amputee to climb Mount Everest without the help of prosthetic limbs, officials said Monday. "We received information that Gautam, who has no hands, climbed Mount Everest," Dipendra Paudel, an official at Nepal's mountain department under the ministry of tourism and ...

  • Chinese man dies trying to climb Lhotse peak in Nepal

    A 58-year-old Chinese climber died Monday while attempting to climb the Lhotse peak, the world's fourth highest, officials said. Xiaoshi Li died in Sagarmatha region, after falling sick on his way to the 8,516 metre high Lhotse peak, Nivesh Karki, manager of the expedition organiser, Seven Summit Treks Pvt. Ltd., told Xinhua. The mountaineering section of Nepal's ministry of tourism said ...

  • Nepal’s first Forbes Dollar Billionaire to expand investments in Lanka

    Even before Forbes placed Binod Chaudhary in its 2013 Annual Global Rich List, his love affair with Sri Lanka had begun with a foray into Colombo in 2000, when he acquired a substantial stake in the Taj Lanka Hotels, Sri Lanka. This longstanding investor of Sri Lanka has been travelling to the country ever since and displayed tremendous market confidence, even during the long drawn conflict ...

  • Nepal government investigating illegal Everest broadcast

    A British mountaineer's interview with the BBC on his smartphone from the top of Mount Everest has stirred controversy with theNepalese government calling the broadcast "illegal", officials said ...

  • Siblings from India and Pakistan reach Everest peak together

    lofty peak of Everest witnessed 'height' of Indo-Pak friendship on Sunday when two sets of siblings from both countries reached there almost ...

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American Pop

"American Pop," Ralph Bakshi's animated generational history of twentieth century American music, is an epic without scope. In just over an hour and a half, it follows the paths of four generations of fathers and sons, starting with their immigration from czarist Russia, and taking them through the speakeasies of Prohibition, the beatnik rhythms of the fifties, the drug-addled sixties, and right i ... ...

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  • Nepal considers plan to expand fibre coverage

    Nepal's minister for information and communications Madhav Prasad Paudel has said the government is committed to improving its fibre-optic links in the country, specifically through the deployment of optical networks along highways and trunk roads. e-Kantipur notes that the state's backing of the plan comes at a time when its efforts to roll out the district optical fibre project are ...

  • Nepal takes issue with troubled BBC’s Everest video

    (21 mins ago) A British mountaineer's interview with the UK state broadcaster BBC on his smart phone from the top of Mount Everest has stirred controversy in Nepal where the government is calling the broadcast ';illegal'', officials said. Mountaineer Daniel Hughes went live on BBC via his smart phone from the 8,848-meter peak on Sunday morning. It was also seen on Asia ...

  • Nepal investigating Everest call

    A BRITISH mountaineer's interview with the BBC on his smartphone from the top of Mount Everest has stirred controversy with the Nepalese government calling the broadcast "illegal", officials said Monday. British mountaineer Daniel Hughes gave a live video interview to the BBC on his smartphone from the 8,848-metres (29,029-feet) peak on Sunday morning. "This is the world's ...

  • WWF Nepal celebrates 20 years of conservation partnerships

    WWF Nepal celebrates 20 years of conservation partnerships WWF Nepal celebrated its 20 years of office (1993-2013) by recognising partnerships, from the national to the grassroots level, that helped shape Nepal’s conservation landscape. At a special ceremony organized to mark this day in the buffer zone of Chitwan National Park in Nepal’s Terai Arc Landscape on Sunday, more than 70 ...

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