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17 unusual facts about Nepal


Atul Gautam

Atul Gautam (1973 – 16 January 2005) was a talented Tabla Maestro of Nepal, born in 1973.

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.

Chandra Bahadur Thapa

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

Early Childhood Development Center

Early Childhood Development Center is an organisation based in Kathmandu, Nepal which provides shelter, food and education to those children living inside jails.

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.

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.

Lihi

:For the town in Nepal see Lihi, Nepal

Phalgunanda

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

Pokhariya

:for the village in Nepal see Pokhariya, Nepal

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

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.


1973 Nepal plane hijack

It was masterminded by Girija Prasad Koirala, who would later be elected the Prime Minister of Nepal, to loot the money of Nepal Rastra Bank being carried by plane from Biratnagar to Kathmandu.

ACeS

Pasifik Satelit Nusantara in Indonesia, ACeS Regional Services in Thailand, Smart ACeS in the Philippines, TMTouch/Celcom in Malaysia, AVCO in Nepal and Mobitel in Sri Lanka.

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.

Berger Paints India

Apart from operations in Russia, with a production facility at the Berger manufacturing unit at Krasnodar, Berger has also expanded its footprint in Nepal by setting up a second unit.

Bhattarai

Although now the Bhattarai polulation is widely distribited across Nepal as well as in neighboring India, they have their origin in the Gandaki basin of central-hilly region of Nepal, that include districts like Gorkha are Syangja.

Bishow Sharma

Aatma Ma became one of the biggest chart topper of the Nepal music video Industry of Nepal.

Buddha's Birthday

Though the birth of Birth of Buddha is Nepal Buddha Purnima or Tathagata is celebrated in India, especially in Sikkim, Ladakh, Arunachal Pradesh, Bodh Gaya, various parts of North Bengal such as Kalimpong, Darjeeling, and Kurseong, and Maharashtra (where 6% of total population are Buddhists) and other parts of India as per Indian calendar.

Camling language

The Chamling language is used by small communities in the Sagarmatha Zone, Khotang District, Bhojpur District and scattered areas in Udayapur District and a few more districts of eastern Nepal, the southeastern neighbour Indian state of Sikkim, the hill city of Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal and the kingdom of Bhutan.

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.

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.

Deepak Parvatiyar

His coverage of catastrophes such as the Bombay riots of 1993, the Bombay Blasts of 1993, the 1994 plague epidemic in Surat, the Gujarat earthquake of 2001, and the Maoist seizure of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal in 2005 are well chronicled from time to time in various media.

Dhawalagiri Zone

Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve, the only hunting reserve in Nepal is spread over Baglung and Myagdi Districts of this zone.

Durlav Kumar Thapa

In 2013 he was awarded the Nepal Police’s Lifetime Achievement award at the Sadar Prahari Talim Kendra.

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.

Garhwal Kingdom

He also plays a role in the appointment of Chief Priest to the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Ghe

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

Hans T. Bakker

He has also led the study of the earliest known version of the Skanda Purāṇa preserved in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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.

Iván Vallejo

The following year, he returned to Nepal and reached the summit of Ama Dablam (6,856 m) and in 1997, he stood on top of his first eight-thousander – Manaslu (8,163 m).

Jita people

:for the village of Nepal see Jita, Nepal

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.

Jokhang

The temple's architectural style is a mixture of Indian vihara design, Chinese Tang Dynasty design, and Nepalese design.

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.

Kamal Bahadur Adhikari

Kamal Bahadur Adhikari (born July 20, 1977 in Gitanagar) is a Nepalese weightlifter.

Khem Raj Gurung

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

Kulananda Dhakal

Kulananda Dhakal, was the most famous priests and astrologers of Prithvi Narayan Shah who united Nepal.

Kunde

Kunde Hospital, a hospital built in 1966 in the village of Kunde, Nepal

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).

Mingma Sherpa

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

Mohan Meakin

New breweries were built during the seventies and eighties at Chandigarh, Madras, Nepal and Kakinada near Hyderabad.

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.

Nepal Praja Parishad

Nepal Praja Rarishad was proposed to be founded by Dashrath Chand and Tanka Prasad Acharya in a hotel in Bhimphedi, Makwanpur District of Nepal to lead the revolution against the Rana dynasty In Nepal.

Nepathya

Nepathya (Nepali:नेपथ्य also spelled - Nepathaya) is a popular Nepalese music band that was formed by three students from Pokhara, studying in Kathmandu, Nepal in the early 1990s.

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.

Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

Ganesh Shah, Nepalese politician and member of Communist Party of Nepal (United)

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.

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).

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.

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.