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unusual facts about Katmandu, Nepal



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.

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)

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dimapur

Besides the dominant Naga tribes who comprise about 50% of the city's population, other prominent groups include Dimasas, Bengalis, Assamese, Oriyas, Nepalese, Biharis, Marwaris, Punjabis and also Tamils and Keralites.

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.

Ghe

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

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.

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.

Kamal Bahadur Adhikari

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

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.

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).

Khoa

Khoa (Punjabi: ਖੋਆ, Nepali:खुवा, also khoo-wah) is a dairy product widely used in Nepal, Indian and Pakistani cuisine, made of either dried whole milk or milk thickened by heating in an open iron pan.

Kiran Shamsher Rana

He took on duties outside of Nepal later in life, appointed to a six-year term as a member of Rajya Sabha in 1963 and later serving as the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Nepal to the Court of St. James's from 1973 to 1977.

Kumar Kashyap Mahasthavir

Kumar Kashyap (alternative name: Kumar Bhante) was born in Tansen, Palpa, a district in western Nepal.

Kunde

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

Lepcha people

The Lepcha people are composed of four main distinct communities: the Renjóngmú of Sikkim; the Támsángmú of Kalimpong, Kurseong, and Mirik; the ʔilámmú of Ilam District, Nepal; and the Promú of Samtse and Chukha in southwestern Bhutan.

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.

Makhanalal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism and Communication

It also has campuses in Noida,Meerut Uttar Pradesh (adjoining Delhi) and at Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh supported by a network of 529 study institutes (as on March 31, 2005) throughout India and Nepal.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

St. Xavier's School, Godavari

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

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.

Ziziphus incurva

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


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