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  • Nepal slams climbers illegal call from Mount Everest- Montana hiker dies in Yosemite rock climbing accident

    May 19, 2010: Clouds hover above the world's highest peak Mount Everest, as seen from Syangboche, about 125 kilometers (80 miles) northeast of Katmandu, ...

  • Bangladeshi South Korean climbers die on Everest

    KATHMANDU (AFP) - A climber from Bangladesh and another from South Korea have died on Mount Everest as hundreds flock to the world's highest peak during good weather, Nepalese tourism officials said Tuesday."Both men died while descending from the summit on Monday," an official with the tourism ministry told AFP from Everest Base Camp.Sung Ho-Seo, 34, of South Korea was attempting ...

  • Actress Nisha Adhikari completes Everest ascent

    Nepali film actress Nisha Adhikari has completed her ascent on Everest on Tuesday morning. Adhikari, who has now become the first Nepali actress to climb Everest, achieved the fete at around 8 am this morning, said Nepal Tourism Board. Adhikari, who embarked on an expedition to Everest on April 7, arrived at base camp on April ...

  • 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 ...

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GoodFellas

The first words we hear in the voice-over narration of Henry Hill, the central character of "GoodFellas" are: "For as far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." The success of Martin Scorsese's stunning Mafia epic is twofold. First, he makes a strong argument why a gangster's life of crime and violence would be so tantalizing to Henry, and secondly, he portrays how that life pa ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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