The best get awarded

Himalayan News ServiceKathmandu:Deepesh Kishore Bhattarai’s “K Ma Timro Sathi Banna Sakchu” swept the 6th Annual Image Award 2060 in six categories. The mega event organised at the Birendra International Convention Centre on May 8 handed out 23...

Travel Abroad 08 May, 2004

Numafung at Singapore Movie Festival

Himalayan News Service Kathmandu: Nepali film Numafung, which has already won two international awards, participated in the 17th Singapore Movie Festival which started on April 15. Three hundred movies from 35 countries including Numafung from Nepal...

Travel Abroad 17 Apr, 2004

TIME OUT

Robert still hopeful PARIS: Laurent Robert said in an interview on Friday he’s still hopeful that his sparkling form for Newcastle United will earn him a recall to the French national team in time for Euro 2004. “It’s not because I haven’t been...

16 Apr, 2004

George Michael rebukes Madonna

LONDON: Now it also seems that British pop legend George Michael has rebuked Madonna for staging her famous onstage kiss with Britney Spears, to sell more copies of her album. The bizarre episode, when the pop diva smooched with Britney and Christina...

Travel Abroad 14 Apr, 2004

Post-partum bleeding leading cause of maternal mortality

Himalayan News ServiceKathmandu, April 10:Severe bleeding is the single most important cause of maternal mortality accounting for one-third of maternal deaths worldwide. In Nepal, it accounts for 46.3 per cent of maternal mortality. "Some...

Horoscopes 11 Apr, 2004

Detonating a Dynamite

The GuardianLondon:Anyone want a Wine Gum?” hollers Ms Dynamite with a muscular swish of her pony tail. “Green? Red? Yella, yella, yella?” We are in a recording studio in south London where the 22-year-old R&B star scoffs sweets and has her...

Travel Abroad 07 Apr, 2004

Diaz and Myers win the hearts of kids

HOLLYWOOD: Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz, who won the hearts of kids everywhere as the voices of the love-struck ogre and princess in the animated film ‘Shrek’, were hosts of 17th annual Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards on April 3, which came...

Travel Abroad 04 Apr, 2004

Is Shahid a narcissist?

Subhash K JhaMumbai:Bollywood’s new leading man Shahid Kapoor says his boyish looks make it difficult to find actresses to pair him with, and that’s one reason why he’s doing two releases with Kareena Kapoor You starred in the first hit of 2003...

Travel Abroad 04 Apr, 2004

She loved being Lucy

The GuardianEven in 1951, when ‘I Love Lucy’ made its TV debut, Lucille Ball looked like a parody of the 50s woman.John Waters, the director of Hairspray, has claimed Lucy as a gay icon: “At last, a female impersonator who dyed her hair orange,...

Travel Abroad 03 Apr, 2004

Gufsuf

Rambha on TV bandwagonMUMBAI: Now it is Rambha’s turn to shift to TV. Rambha lost all her hard-earned money when she produced the film Three Roses. To make things worse, she has even incurred heavy debt. She has also made unnecessary enemies while...

Travel Abroad 29 Mar, 2004

Stuff that ‘friends’ are made of

A cat, large, grey and devilish, a Machiavellian glint in his yellow-irised eyes, and a mouse, small, brown, cherubic yet cheeky, chase each other around a kitchen, demolishing the ice box, ironing board, plate rail, a whole sink full of dishes and...

Travel Abroad 26 Mar, 2004

Shuvatara honours women, students

Himalayan News ServiceKathmandu:Shuvatara School organised its 14th annual prize distribution day at Royal Nepal Academy, Kamaladi on March 21. The programme was marked by honouring the 10 most influential women in Nepal -- Usha Nepal, Sailaja Acharya,...

Travel Abroad 22 Mar, 2004