Baskota felicitated

KATHMANDU: To mark the 50th birth anniversary of national talent late Rupak Raj Sharma, a special felicitation programme was held at the Rupak Memorial Foundation, Satdobato on January 28. Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives Keshar Bahadur Bista...

Travel Abroad 28 Jan, 2006

MOVIE REVIEW: Pour some Rang into your life

Rang De Basanti (Drama)• Director: Rakyesh Mehra • Cast: Aamir Khan, Siddharth, Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Kunal, Soha Ali Khan, Alice Patten, Waheeda Rehman, Atul Kulkarni, Om Puri• Showing at Jai Nepal, KumariKathmandu:We’ve fired enough of...

Travel Abroad 28 Jan, 2006

MOVIE REVIEW: Pour some Rang into your life

Rang De Basanti (Drama)• Director: Rakyesh Mehra • Cast: Aamir Khan, Siddharth, Madhavan, Sharman Joshi, Kunal, Soha Ali Khan, Alice Patten, Waheeda Rehman, Atul Kulkarni, Om Puri• Showing at Jai Nepal, KumariKathmandu:We’ve fired enough of...

Travel Abroad 28 Jan, 2006

Baskota felicitated

KATHMANDU: To mark the 50th birth anniversary of national talent late Rupak Raj Sharma, a special felicitation programme was held at the Rupak Memorial Foundation, Satdobato on January 28. Minister for Agriculture and Cooperatives Keshar Bahadur Bista...

Travel Abroad 28 Jan, 2006

A star has set

Kathmandu:January 22 was a sad day for the Nepali music lovers as singing legend Tara Devi passed away due to a stroke at the age of 61.She was rushed to the hospital but at around 10:30 pm the previous night. She had been suffering from the Parkinsons...

Travel Abroad 23 Jan, 2006

Only melody remains

On January 22, Nepalis with teary eyes paid their last homage to the “melody queen” of the country — Tara Devi — who died of a stroke at the age of 61. She was suffering from the agonising Parkinson’s disease for the last seven years. A huge...

23 Jan, 2006

BIZ BRIEFS

EU Airlines’ blacklist STRASBOURG: The European Commission gave its green light to bolster the powers of the EU’s air safety agency and create a blacklist of unsafe airlines, after a ‘tragic summer’ of deadly plane crashes. EU transport...

16 Nov, 2005

Plane crash in Indonesia leaves 147 dead

Medan, September 5:The Boeing 737-200 shook violently seconds after take-off, veered to the left and slammed onto a busy street in Indonesia’s third-largest city, bursting into flames. At least 147 people died, many of them on the ground. But up to...

Women 06 Sep, 2005

Investigators hunt for clues to plane crash

Medan, September 6:Investigators hunted for clues today as to why an Indonesian jetliner crashed seconds after takeoff, shifting through body parts and bits of flesh as they worked, as weeping families looked for loved ones among dozens of charred...

Women 06 Sep, 2005

SNIPPETS

Mild quake hits B’desh DHAKA: A mild earthquake registering 3.1 on the Richter scale jolted southeastern Bangladesh on Saturday, officials said. There were no reports of any casualties or damage. The tremor, lasting nine seconds, was felt in the port...

Women 01 Aug, 2005

SNIPPETS

Firing mishapSRINAGAR: A police officer’s rifle went off accidentally on Thursday and killed a colleague in Indian-controlled Kashmir, and a passer-by was fatally shot by paramilitary soldiers who mistakenly thought they were under attack, police...

Women 21 Jul, 2005

All about safety

With the object of enhancing safety of the passengers travelling by air and to avoid fatal accidents, the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) has introduced, for the first time, a “breathalyser” test on the pilots at the Tribhuwan...

09 May, 2005