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49 unusual facts about Kathmandu


83362 Sandukruit

It is named for Sanduk Ruit, a Nepalese ophthalmologist and founder of the Tilganga Eye Center in Kathmandu.

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.

Bertram Smythies

Smythies father took up a contract post of Forest Advisor to the Maharaja of Nepal and moved to Kathmandu after 1940 and stayed on till 1947.

Bhanubhakta Acharya

One of his writings is well known for its colorful, flowing praise of Kathmandu valley and its inhabitants.But he has been a lost identity.

Charles Duchaussois

It was 1969 at the zenith of the hippie movement, from Marseille to Beirut, from Istanbul to Baghdad, taking long detours in India, by boat, on foot, in car, Charles bit by bit got closer to Kathmandu, the height of drugs and hippies.

Chobhar caves

Chobhar caves are an extensive network of natural caves near the village of Chobhar, which is located 9 km southwest of Kathmandu, Nepal.

Coronations in Asia

The royals next rode on elephants through the streets of Kathmandu, together with other distinguished guests.

Curry Without Worry

The charity serves free dinner to mostly impoverished persons on Tuesday afternoons from kiosks that simultaneously operate in San Francisco and Kathmandu.

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.

Deepa Panta was born to Bishnu Kumar Panta and Bhawani Panta in 1986 at Prasuti Griha Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal as a first child of her parents.

Domain Central

Domain Central also has a large number of outlet and discount retailers including the furniture retailers Nick Scali Furniture, Far Pavilions, Bazaar Furniture Traders, Bedshed, Sleepcity, Snooze and Sleepys; lifestyle retailers BCF, Tackleworld, BNG Sports and Kathmandu and fashion retailers Barkins, Millers and Tarocash.

Dorje Shugden controversy

As further evidence of their view they state the example of Phelgye Ling monastery that was transformed to a Gelug monastery by the 5th Dalai Lama, who gave the monastery a statue (about 20 cm high) of Dorje Shugden riding on a black horse, which still exists in the monastery in Kathmandu.

E.Quals

Alongside preparations for the London show, the band has continuously been active in the underground scene in Kathmandu.

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.

F.C. De Kampioenen

Later on, it seems Oscar converted to Hare Krishna and now lives in Kathmandu.

Facundo Arana

He reached the base camp at 5,364 metres (17,598 ft) but the Altitude sickness made him stop climbing for a few days, during his second attempt Arana's illness progressed to high altitude pulmonary HAPE and cerebral HACE edema which led to Arana's emergency evacuation to Kathmandu.

Gaijatra

Gaijatra, the festival of cows, (gai means cow and jatra means festival in Nepali: गाईजात्रा, and Nepal Bhasa: सापारु) is celebrated in Nepal, mainly in Kathmandu valley by the Newar and Tharu community.

Ganesh Lal Shrestha

Bhimphedi, located 35 km to the southwest of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, is a market town on the old trade route linking India and Tibet.

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.

Global Observation Research Initiative in Alpine Environments

The idea to monitor alpine plant communities was first discussed in 1996 during a workshop in Kathmandu.

Goodbye Kathmandu

This movie portrays the story of struggle to migrate to live in the capital city of Nepal i.e. Kathmandu.

Hans T. Bakker

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

Joint Himalayan Committee

On 2 June, four days after the successful ascent, Hunt sent a runner to 'carry messages to Namche Bazar, to go thence by the good offices of the Indian wireless station to Kathmandu.

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.

Kalidas Shrestha

Shrestha was born at Kathmandu to father Govinda Das Shrestha and mother Mangal Kumari Shrestha.

KAT Centre

The KAT Centre’s goals are to create a healthy, sustainable street dog population, reduce animal cruelty, and eliminate rabies, around Kathmandu, Nepal.

Mangal Raj Joshi

Dr. Joshi died in Kathmandu on 2 March 2005 from a combination of kidney problems and a heart attack, according to his son, Dr. Badri Raj Joshi, B.A., M.S.C. (Predictive Astrology), Ph.D., PGA.

Motiram Bhatta

Motiram Bhatta (1866 - 1896 A.D.) or (1923 - 1953 B.S.) a Nepalese Poet, known as an era in Nepali literature was born in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Muzaffarpur district

Mark Twain, while on way to Kathmandu, stayed in the local Muzaffarpur Club and relished this beautiful East Indian City.

Nanavira Thera

Most of the editorial work connected with Ñāṇavīra Thera's writings was performed by Sāmanera Bodhesako (Robert Smith), who died in Kathmandu in 1988.

Nepal Fashion Week

From 2009 onwards the fashion week has been held annually in the capital city of Kathmandu.

Nepathya

His songs encompass all of Nepal and is not limited to Kathmandu Valley.

Nobody Told Me

The lyrics make reference to "a little yellow idol to the north of Kathmandu" which is similar to a line from J. Milton Hayes' poem entitled The Green Eye of the Yellow God.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

After graduating from university with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering, he went to London and Kathmandu, Nepal, to decide what to do in life.

Panch Kedar

A further supporting fact mentioned in this regard is that the emblem used in Kedarnath temple dome is the same as displayed in the Pashupathinath temple dome in Kathmandu.

It is also believed that the fore portions of Shiva appeared at Pashupatinath, Kathmandu — the capital of Nepal.

Pashupatastra

Pashupatastra is the weapon of PashupatiNath, the most important of all Shiva temples, located in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Philip Sugden

During his thirty-five-year career, Sugden’s work has been exhibited in over one-hundred solo shows internationally including New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Washington D.C., Melbourne, and Kathmandu.

Shamsuddin Ilyas Shah

He advanced as far as the capital Kathmandu following the Dudh Koshi river, destroyed the Swayambhunath temple there and returned with a huge booty.He is said to have destroyed the Lichchhavi palaces of Managriha and Kailashkuta.

Shechen Monastery

The monastery in Nepal was founded in 1980 near the great stupa of Boudhanath, just northeast of Kathmandu, and is known as Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery.

Shivmangal Singh Suman

Suman worked as the Vice Chancellor of Vikram University (Ujjain) during 1968-78; the Vice-President of Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan, Lucknow; Press & Cultural Attache, Indian Embassy, Kathmandu (Nepal) during 1956-61; and the President, Association of Indian Universities (New Delhi) during 1977-78.

St. Xavier's High School, Patna

In 1949, the vice-chancellor of Patna University asked Fr Moran, who also served on the senate of the university, to supervise exams in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sunita Dulal

She then achieved her Bachelor Degree in Humanities from Padma Kanya Campus, Kathmandu, Nepal.

Sunita Dulal (Nepalese: सुनिता दुलाल) is a prominent Nepalese folk singer from Kathmandu, Nepal.

Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center

TBRC also has international offices at the E. Gene Smith Library at Southwest University for Nationalities in Chengdu, China, and in scanning centers in New Delhi, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal.

Young Communist League, Nepal

Another Central Committee member, Chandra Bahadur Thapa a.k.a. Comrade Sagar, who is in charge of YCL’s Kathmandu region, is a former ‘battalion commander’ of the Dinesh-Ramji Samiti Brigade.

At its first national convention in the capital Kathmandu in February 2007, which was inaugurated by the CPN-Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal a.k.a. Prachanda, the YCL formed a 45-member new Central Committee with Ganeshman Pun as its Chairman, Uma Bhujel as its Vice-chairman, Dileep Kumar Prajapati as General Secretary, R. P. Sharma as Secretary and Bhagwat Baduwal as Treasurer.

Ziziphus incurva

It is found from 900 meters to 16000 meters altitude in eastern Nepal including Kathmandu valley.


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.

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.

Alexander Evgenievich Ponomarev

International Symposium in the Urals (1989), in Nepal (Kathmandu), Tibet (Lhasa, 2000), on Lake - (artists Francisco Infante-Arana and Nonna Goryunova, Vladimir Nasedkin, Tatiana Badanina, Tishkov, Leonid, Shaburov, Alexander E., Porto, Ivan B., Chernyshev, Aristarchus A., Vladislav Yefimov, Batynkov, Konstantin, Olga Chernysheva)

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.

Francisco Infante-Arana

International Symposium in the Urals (1989), in Nepal (Kathmandu), Tibet (Lhasa, 2000), on Lake - (artists Francisco Infante-Arana and Nonna Goryunova, Alexander Evgenievich Ponomarev, Vladimir Nasedkin, Tatiana Badanina, Tishkov, Leonid, Shaburov, Alexander E., Porto, Ivan B., Chernyshev, Aristarchus A., Vladislav Yefimov, Batynkov, Konstantin, Olga Chernysheva)

Gauri Pradhan

He has studied Masters in Business Administration (MBA) and Bachelors in Law from Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu.

Kathmandu Engineering College

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

Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust

KVPT was founded in 1991 by architectural historian Eduard Sekler, then team leader of the UNESCO Campaign to Safeguard the Cultural Heritage of the Kathmandu Valley, and is run by a team of Nepali architects and craftspeople in Patan, working closely with the Government of Nepal, Department of Archaeology.

Linguistic rights

On 1 June 1999, the Supreme Court forbade Kathmandu Metropolitan City from giving official recognition to Nepal Bhasa, and Rajbiraj Municipality and Dhanusa District Development Committee from recognizing Maithili.

Lukla

Weather permitting, twin-engined Dornier and Twin Otters make frequent daylight flights between Lukla and Kathmandu.

Marshall D. Moran

As member of the Patna University Senate Moran had to visit regularly Kathmandu in order to supervise exams at the Trichandra College.

Narayangarh, Chitwan

Narayangarh (also Narayangadh or Narayanghat) (Nepali: नारायणगढ or नारायणघाट) is a part of the city of Bharatpur in Chitwan District in the central part of Nepal, 146 km due west of Kathmandu, and 136 km from Pokhara, at the Narayani River where it leaves the Mahabharat Range.

Nepal Internet Exchange

NPIX Maintains two IX locations in Kathmandu valley, one in Jawalakhel, Lalitpur district and another in Putalisadak, Kathmandu district.

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.

Ram Chandra Pokhrel

Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mt. Everest and Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa in Kathmandu.

Ramesh Kharel

Once moving to Birgunj in Parsa District, he has continued the strong policing he was known for in Kathmandu.

Ramesh Parsad Kharel has served as the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) in Pokhara, Kathmandu, and Birgunj.

Shakti

A commonly accepted list of Shakti peethas and their famous temple complexes includes: Jwalaji (Himachal), Tara Tarini (Berhampur, Orissa), Katyayani (Chattarpur, Delhi), Kamakhya (Assam), Kali at Kalighat (Kolkata, West Bengal), Naina Devi (Himachal), Guhyeshwari Temple Devi (Kathmandu, Nepal), Vishalakshi Temple (Varanasi).

Sino-Nepal Friendship Bridge

From the bridge on the Nepalese side, Kodari in Sindhulpalchok District, the Arniko Rajmarg (abbreviated ARM; rajmarg means highway) links to Kathmandu.

Sino-Nepalese War

When Prithvi Narayan Shah of the Gorkha Kingdom launched an economic blockade on the Kathmandu Valley during his unification campaign, Jaya Prakash Malla of Kathmandu faced an economic crisis which he tried to alleviate by minting low quality coins mixed with copper.

Sudarshan Mahasthavir

His play Juju Jaya Prakash, on the last king of Kathmandu Jaya Prakash Malla, was awarded the Shrestha Sirapa in 1958.

Terai Television

It has the headquartar outside of Kathmandu Valley, in Birgunj, which falls in Terai region of Nepal.

The ISIS Group

The ISIS Foundation began operations in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, and Humla, a remote region in the north-west of Nepal, in 1998.

Theodore Frederic Fairhurst

Later the same year he went to Nepal and succeeded to hike alone for 32 days over several hundred kilometers from Kathmandu to the Khumbu Glacier at the foot of Mount Everest.