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29 unusual facts about Nepal


Alo of Maui

::For a village, see Alau, Nepal, and for a film, Alo (film).

Baban Singh

Singh has also been accused of inciting the violent uprising against maoists on March 21, 2007 in Gaur, where 27 Maoists were killed.

Balram Chainrai

Balram Chainrai is a Nepalese based businessman that was born in Okhaldhunga District, eastern Nepal and migrated with his family to Hong Kong with his British Gurkha Army father and brought up in Hong Kong and that holds a British passport, who formerly owned Portsmouth Football Club.

Budha Subba Gold Cup

The competition is held yearly in the proposed Eastern Region Stadium by Dharan Football F.C. every year in eastern region of Nepal, Dharan.

Budha Subba Temple

He was tricked into coming to Bijaypur-Dharan for a negotiation, then killed by the assassins of King Prithvi Narayan Shah of Nepal.

Chandra Bahadur Thapa

Thapa is the Kathmandu valley in-charge of the Young Communist League.

Dil Shova Shrestha

Dil Shova Shrestha is social worker, philanthropist of Nepal.

Gada

Gadha, Nepal a village development committee in Siraha District, Nepal

Ganeshthan Temple

Ganeshthan is one of the most famous Hindu temple in Bharatpur, Nepal.

Guna Airlines

The Guna Group began as a small gold shop known as Guna Jewellers in Patan in 1984.

Hedera nepalensis

Hedera nepalensis (Himalayan ivy, Himalaya-Efeu, chang chun teng) is a species of perennial Ivy (genus Hedera) native to Nepal and Bhutan, as well as Afghanistan, India, China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, at altitudes of about 1000–3000 m.

Institute of Engineering

The Eastern Region Campus in Dharan, which began operating from 1984, was built with the financial assistance from Asian Development Bank and the technical assistance from the UK.

Jita people

:for the village of Nepal see Jita, Nepal

Khem Raj Gurung

Khem Raj Gurung is a famous musician and singer of Nepali music industry.

Lepcha people

The Lepcha people themselves do not have any tradition of migration, and hence they conclude that they are aboriginal to the region, currently falling under the state of Sikkim, Darjeeling District of West Bengal, eastern Nepal and the southwestern parts of Bhutan.

Lihi

:For the town in Nepal see Lihi, Nepal

Old Freak Street

But in early 1970s the government of Nepal started a round-up of hippies on Freak Street and they were physically deported to India, an action propelled largely by a directive from the government of United States of America.

Phalgunanda

Phalgunanda (फाल्गुनंद) or Falgunanda Lingden (1885–1949) was the religious leader of the Kirat people of eastern Nepal.

Pidari

:For the village in Nepa see Pidari, Nepal

Pokhariya

:for the village in Nepal see Pokhariya, Nepal

President of Nepal

On 28 May 2008, the Assembly voted to abolish the monarchy.

Rivers in Himachal Pradesh

Passing through gorges it emerges from the mountains at Bhakra.

Sakhar

Sakhar, Nepal, a Village Development Committee in Syangja District, Nepal

Sanai

:For the village in Nepal see Sanai, Nepal

The Robot Who Looked Like Me

# "What is Life?" (Playboy, Dec 1976) A traveler in Nepal is asked the title question by a Voice from the mountain

Three Star Club

Three Star Club (previously known as the Mega Three Star Club for sponsorship reasons and was terminated on 2012 end)Now sponsored by Laxmi Bank is a Nepali football club based in Patan, Lalitpur.

Transport in Delhi

Currently, the only international rail service to Delhi is the Samjhauta Express to Lahore, while it is possible to change trains to board rail services to Bangladesh and Nepal which commence in other cities of India.

Western Region Campus

It is located at Pokhara, the regional headquarters of the Western Development Region.

Zhu Guo

He lost to eventual gold medalist Hadi Saei of Iran in the quarterfinals but captured bronze by defeating Aaron Cook of Great Britain and Deepak Bista of Nepal in the repechage.


2010 Okhaldhunga Twin Otter crash

On December 15, 2010, a Tara Air de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter crashed in Nepal shortly after take-off on a domestic passenger flight between Lamidanda Airport, Lamidanda, and Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu.

Aciravati

The Acirvati was an ancient river flowing through what is now Nepal and the northern portion of Uttar Pradesh.

Amlekhganj

Amlekhganj (also Amlekhgunj) (Nepali:अमलेखगंज) is a town and Village Development Committee in Bara District in the Narayani Zone of south-eastern Nepal.

Athletics at the South Asian Games

Athletics competitions have been held at the South Asian Games since the inaugural edition of the South Asian Federation Games in 1984 in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Bardiya National Park

For 45 years it was a part of British India and returned to Nepal in 1860 in recognition for supporting the suppression of the Indian Independence movement in 1857.

Cha Ekan Cha

It includes a cast of Nepali television comedians like Deepak Raj Giri, Jeetu Nepal, Sitaram Kattel and Kedar Ghimire, this ought to be an outrageous and funny affair.

Chandra Kala Thapa

Chandra Kala Thapa (born September 2, 1980 in Urlabari) is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Nepal.

Deepa Panta

And then she has moved to Kathmandu for higher studies and completed her 10+2 (Humanities) from HSBC Nepal and Completed Bachelors and Master's degree (Mathematics) form Tribhuwan University Kathmandu, Nepal.

Foreign relations of Nepal

In 2008, Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Minister of the Environment and International Development Erik Solheim visited Nepal.

Garden of Dreams

The Garden of Dreams (Nepali:स्वप्न बगैंचा), also, the Garden of Six Seasons, is a neo-classical historical garden in Kathmandu, Nepal, built in 1920.

George van Driem

George van Driem has also written grammars of Limbu and Dumi, two Kiranti languages spoken in eastern Nepal, and the Bumthang language of central Bhutan.

Ghe

Southern Ghale language, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal; ISO-639-3 code: ghe

Hans Janitschek

During his time at the United Nations, he became involved in the Bulgarian artist Mihail Simeonov’s "Cast the Sleeping Elephant Project" for which he gained the full support of the United Nations as well as the governments of Namibia, Nepal and Kenya.

Harsha Bahadur Budha Magar

He got a Master's Degree in political science from Tribhuvan University, Nepal in 1967.

Iman Xin Chemjong

In a gesture that went against the grain of prevailing state ideology, King Tribhuvan invited Chemjong to join Nepal's Tribhuvan University in the capacity of "Limbu expert" in 1961.

John Alexander McCreery

Miss Ravenshaw, a member of the prominent and noble Ravenshaw Family of England, was a daughter of Charles Withers Ravenshaw, a lieutenant colonel in the Indian Political Service appointed by Queen Victoria who later served as a governor of the British colony of Nepal from 1902-1905.

Journey to Everest

As they struggle with their decision of whether to continue on their trek, their faith comes into the fore as they experience the Hindu/Buddhist world of Kathmandu, Nepal, face the challenges of the Everest Region, and discover the depths of who they are as Christians in a life-altering way.

Kathmandu Engineering College

Kathmandu Engineering College is a private engineering college in Kalimati, Kathmandu, Nepal, located near the Grand Hotel Kathmandu.

Katyuri kings

Brahmadev mandi (a trading / business center in a flat area of the then Katyuri kingdom) in the Kanchanpur District of Nepal was established by Katyuris king Brahma Deo (Brahma Dev).

Kham Magar

Kham are descriptive terms invented by academic linguists and anthropologists for a nationality in the Middle Hills of mid-western Nepal inhabiting highlands extending through eastern Rukum and northern Salyan, Rolpa and Pyuthan Districts in Rapti Zone as well as adjacent parts of Dhaulagiri and Bheri Zones.

Mahabir Pun

Born and raised in Nangi, a remote village in the mountainous Myagdi District of western Nepal, Pun spent his childhood grazing cattle and sheep, and attending a village school without paper, pencils, textbooks or qualified teachers.

Maurice Chappaz

Maurice Chappaz carried out still other numerous trips around the world : Laponia (1968), Paris (1968), Nepal and Tibet (1970), Mount Athos (1972), Lebanon (1974), Russia (1974 et 1979), China (1981), Quebec and New York (1990).

Melvyn Goldstein

He has also conducted research in India (with Tibetan refugees in Bylakuppe), in northwest Nepal (with a Tibetan border community in Limi), in western Mongolia (with a nomadic pastoral community in Khovd Province) and in inland China (with Han Chinese on modernization and the elderly).

Mingma Sherpa

Mingma Sherpa (born 23 September 1980) is a Nepalese pop singer, born in Lukla, Nepal into the Sherpa family.

Murder of Maina Sunuwar

The Maina Sunar murder case concerns the murder of Maina Sunar, a 15-year-old girl killed by the Nepalese Army in February 2004 during the Nepalese Civil War at Birendra Peace Operations Training Center, Panchkhal, Kavrepalanchok, Nepal.

Narayani Zone

Narayani contains parts of the Terai, Inner Terai, and Hill regions of Nepal, but it does not contain any of the Mountain or Himalayan region.

Nepal College of Information Technology

Nepal College of Information Technology (NCIT) was first located at Imadol, Lalitpur serving as second campus of Nepal Engineering College (NEC) which runs Masters' Programs.

Nepal eMission

Nepal eMission is a software from Nepal Software, Borgarnes, Iceland, used to record lectures and seminars.

Parnassius epaphus

This handsome butterfly is found from 9,000 to 13,000 ft from Chitral District to Sikkim and Western regions of Nepal.

People's Democratic United Front

The People's Democratic United Front was a short-lived political coalition in Nepal, formed by the Communist Party of Nepal and the Nepal Praja Parishad in July 1951 to fight against the Rana-Nepali Congress combine.

Pilgrims Publishing

H. W. Tilman, Nepal Himalaya (Pilgrims Publishing), ISBN 81-7303-107-X

Prashant Tamang

In Pokhara (Nepal), Radio Annapurna (93.4 MHz) campaigned for collecting donation and the collected sum of NRs.

Ram Krishna

Ram Krishna Dhakal (born 1974), pop and playback singer, actor and reality show judge from Nepal

Rapti

East Rapti River, a small river draining the Chitwan (inner Terai) valley in Nepal, flowing west to join the Narayani (Gandaki) River a short distance north of the Indian border

Robert I. Levy

Robert I. Levy (b 1924, d. 29 August 2003, Asolo, Veneto, Italy) was an American psychiatrist and anthropologist known for his fieldwork in Tahiti and Nepal and on the cross-cultural study of emotions.

Ruritania

In 2006, Ignacio Padilla published La Gruta del Toscano (ISBN 84-204-7072-4), a novel in which Ruritanians discover a cavern in the Himalayas, somewhere on the border between China and Nepal.

Sangini

Sangini (Nepali: संगिनी) is a particular type of song and dance perform by the Nepali womenfolk during the occasion of a religious festival Tihar and Teej.

Sarah Tyacke

From 2009 to 2011 Tyacke was Chair of the Mount Everest Foundation, a non-profit-making humanitarian and development organisation active in Nepal.

Saru Bhakta

He was born to Ganesh Bahadur Shrestha and Laxmi Shrestha in Bag Bazaar, Pokhara, Nepal and started writing around 1978.

Sergey Kofanov

In 2008 was awarded the main world awards in mountaineering - the American award Golden Piton and European Grolla d`Or for the best ascent of 2007 (peak Jannu, 7710 m., Nepal).

Sidney Dillon Ripley

In 1947, Ripley entered Nepal pretending to be a close confidante of Jawaharlal Nehru and the Nepal government, eager to maintain diplomatic ties with its newly independent neighbour, allowed him to collect bird specimens.

St. Xavier's School, Godavari

St. Xavier's consists of three schools in Nepal all operated by Jesuits.

Sukhiapokhri

Sukhiapokhri is near Nepal's eastern border with India at Ilam District, Mechi Zone.

Tara Bir Singh Tuladhar

With Sur Sudha he continued to collect traditional tunes from remote and rural areas of Nepal, from Terai region up to the villages high in the Himalayas, and to arrange these melodies for concerts on stages in Europe, India, Japan and the USA.

Temba

Temba Tsheri, Sherpa from Nepal and youngest person to climb Mount Everest

Tom George Longstaff

He also made important explorations and climbs in Tibet, Nepal, the Karakoram, Spitsbergen, Greenland, and Baffin Island.

Triyuga

Triyuga (Nepali: त्रियुगा) is a city and municipality in the Udayapur (उदयपुर) District in the Sagarmatha zone of south-eastern Nepal.

Tulsipur dynasty

It bordered Salyan Rajya (Nepal) and Pyuthan (Nepal) in the north, Balarampur Principality (India) in the south, Madi Khola (Nepal) and Arnala River (Basti, India) in the east and Bahraich (India) in the west.