यस्तो देखियो स्वयम्भूबाट सुपर मून By Salokya, on March 19th, 2011

१८ वर्षपछि पहिलो पटक देखिन लागेको अरु बेलाभन्दा चम्किलो र ठूलो आकारको विशेष जून (सुपर मून) हेर्न स्वयम्भू पुगेको थिएँ। चन्द्रमा उदाउँदै गर्दा ठूलो देखिने हो, अझ उदाउँदै गरेको चन्द्रमाको अगाडि पहाड वा अरु केही चिज पर्‍यो भने चन्द्रमा निकै ठूलो देखिन्छ। तर चन्द्रमा उदाउने समय साँझ ५:५७ मा बादल लागेकोले चन्द्रमा नै देखिएन। धेरै बेरसम्म पनि चन्द्रमा नदेखिएपछि निराश भएको थिएँ। ६ बजेर ४४ मिनेटमा बल्ल चन्द्रमा बादलको घुम्टो उघार्दै देखिन थाल्यो। अहो, स्वयम्भूमा चन्द्रमा पर्खेर बसिरहेकाहरु सबै रमाए, खुसीले चिच्याए।


लोडसेडिङले अँध्यारो भएको उपत्यका र आकाशमा उज्यालो जून।



यो ठीक ६ बजेर ४४ मिनेट जाँदा बादलुको घुम्टो उघार्दै चियाउँदै गरेको जून।

के होला यो ?

By Salokya, on March 17th, 2011

जापानमा सुनामीको बेला खिचिएका लाइभ दृश्यमा केही अनौठा कुरा देखिएका छन्। इन्टरनेटमा युएफओ अर्थात् अर्को ग्रहका प्राणी आएको भन्दै हल्ला मच्चिएको छ। तर यो के हो, कसैले निश्चित रुपमा भन्न सक्ने स्थिति छैन। के होला त यो ? भिडियो हेर्नुस्-

जापानमा सुनामीको बेला खिचिएका लाइभ दृश्यमा केही अनौठा कुरा देखिएका छन्। इन्टरनेटमा युएफओ अर्थात् अर्को ग्रहका प्राणी आएको भन्दै हल्ला मच्चिएको छ। तर यो के हो, कसैले निश्चित रुपमा भन्न सक्ने स्थिति छैन। के होला त यो ? भिडियो हेर्नुस्-
http://www.mysansar.com/archives/2011/03/id/17768

अब मोबाइल सिमकार्ड मै फेसबुक TUESDAY, 15 FEBRUARY 2011 12:10

रामचन्द्र भट्ट, बार्सिलोना (स्पेन), फागुन ३ – तपाईसँग सस्तो मोबाइल सेट छ भनेपनि अब फेसबुक चलाउन मिल्ने प्रविधि आएको छ। फेसबुकको एप्लिकेसनलाई मोबाइलको सिमकार्डमै राखेर अब जुनसुकै मोबाइलबाट पनि यसलाई चलाउन सकिने प्रविधिको प्रदर्शन यहाँ सुरु भएको मोबाइल वर्ल्ड कंग्रेसमा गरिएको छ।

'हामी फेसबुकलाई अब सिमकार्डमै राख्ने प्रविधि विकास गर्न सफल भएका छौं,' फ्रान्सेली कम्पनी जेमाल्टोका उपाध्यक्ष (डिजिटल) डिर्क डोरेले भने। जेमाल्टोले फेसबुकसँगको सहकार्यमा यो सेवा परीक्षणको रुपमा सुरु गरिसकेको छ। जसरी अहिले सिमकार्ड लिएपछि निश्चित नम्बर त्यसैमा सेभ गर्न सकिन्छ फेसबुक पनि त्यसैगरी त्यही हुन्छ। जेमाल्टो सिमकार्ड बनाउने कम्पनी हो।

फेसबुकको विश्वभर बढ्दो लोकप्रियताले गर्दा यो कम्पनीले सिमकार्डमै फेसबुक एप्लिकेसन भएको प्रविधि ल्याएको हो। मोबाइलबाट फेसबुक चलाउन अहिलेसम्म इन्टरनेट सुविधा भएको सेट या मोबाइलमै फेसबुक एप्लिकेसन हुन पर्थ्यो। 'यो प्रविधि अब सिमकार्डमै हामीले राखेका छौं, यसबाट जतिसुकै सस्तो सेटबाट पनि फेसबुकको स्टाटस अपडेट गर्न, साथीहरुको स्टाटसमा कमेन्ट गर्नमात्र नभई सन्देश समेत पठाउन सकिन्छ,' उनले भने।

यो सेवा लिनको लागि जेमाल्टोकै सिमकार्ड मोबाइल टेलिफोन कम्पनीहरुले लिनु भने पर्छ। 'फेसबुकको लोकप्रियतालाई हामीले अब सिमकार्डमै राखेर जतिसुकै सस्तो सेटबाट पनि चलाउन सकिने प्रविधि ल्याएका हौं,' डारेले भने।

यो सुविधा लिनको लागि मोबाइल टेलिफोन कम्पनी र जेमाल्टोबीच सम्झौता हुन भने जरुरी छ। जुन जुन मोबाइल टेलिफोन सेवा प्रदायकले सिमकार्डमै फेसबुक राख्न आग्रह गर्छन उनीहरुलाई यो सुविधा दिन तयार भएको जेमाल्टोले जनाएको छ। सिमकार्डमै भएको फेसबुकले गर्दा कोही साथीको फेसबुक स्टाटसमा कमेन्ट गरेपछि एसएमएसको रुपमा उसकोमा सन्देश पुग्छ र के कमेन्ट गरेको छ भन्ने पनि दखिन्छ।

नयाँ प्रविधि भएकोले यो सेवाप्रति अहिले विश्वभरिका मोबाइल टेलिफोन सेवा प्रदायकहरुले निकै चासो दिएका छन्। फेसबुकको वालबाट सन्देश पठाउन पनि सकिन्छ। 'एसएमएसभन्दा यो निकै सजिलो र सस्तो पनि पर्छ,' जेमाल्टोका अधिकारीहरुले दावी गरेका छन्।

यो प्रविधि नेपालमा आउन भने समय लाग्न सक्छ। मोबाइल टेलिफोन सेवा प्रदायक एनसेल र नेपाल टेलिकमले यो प्रविधि ल्याएर आफ्ना उपभोक्तालाई मोबाइल इन्टरनेट (जिपिआरएस, थ्रीजी) बिना पनि फेसबुक चलाउने सुविधा दिनसक्छन्।

अहिले मोबाइल टेलिफोनबाट फेसबुक चलाउनेहरु संसारभरि बढेका छन्। यसले गर्दा मोबाइल सेटमै फेसबुकको एप्लिकेसनलाई राख्न समेत ठूला कम्पनीहरुले प्रतिस्पर्धा गरिरहेका छन्। जहाँ मोबाइल इन्टरनेट सेवा महंगो छ त्यस्तो देशमा सिमकार्डमै फेसबुक सेवा भएको सेवा निकै लोकप्रिय र सजिलो हुने दावी जेमाल्टोको छ।

चार्ल्स शोभराज पनि अनुसन्धानको घेरामा, प्रहरी पुग्नुअघि नै बोडेबाट दुई सहयोगी फरार THURSDAY, 10 MARCH 2011 14:48

युनुस अन्सारीलाई गोली हानेको अभियोगमा पक्राउ परेका जस्जीत सिंहले एक महिनादेखि केन्द्रीय कारागारका बन्दी चार्ल्स शोभराजलाई भेट्ने गरेको प्रहरी अनुसन्धानबाट खुलेको नागरिकन्युजकर्मी केपी ढुंगानाले जनाएका छन्। माघ २२ गते भारतको लखनउबाट काठमाडौँ आएका सिंहले नियमित रुपमा शोभराजलाई भेट्ने गरेको र आज पनि शोभराजलाई भेट्ने बहानामा कारागारभित्र प्रवेश गरी अन्सारीलाई गोली हानेको खुलेको एआईजी अर्जुनजंग शाहीले बताए। शाहीका अनुसार घटनाका सम्बन्धमा शोभराजको संलग्नताबारे समेत अनुसन्धान सुरु गरिएको छ। 

  प्रहरीका अनुसार सिंह पक्राउ परे लगत्तै बोडे वडा नम्बर २ को एक घरमा अभियुक्तहरुको डेरा रहेको खुलेपछि प्रहरी कोठामा पुगेको थियो। तर प्रहरी पुग्नुअघि नै सिंहका सहयोगी सुरेश द्विवेदी र रामु द्विवेदी फरार भइसकेका थिए। अपराध महाशाखका अनुसार दुवै भारतको लखनउका हुन्। प्रहरीले फरार दुवै अभियुक्त बारे जानकारी दिनेलाई ५० हजार पुरस्कारको घोषणा गरेको छ।

एआईजी शाहीले केन्द्रीय कारागारको सुरक्षामा लापरवाही देखिएकाले ड्युटीमा खटिएका तीन जना प्रहरीलाई निलम्बन गरी अनुसन्धान सुरु गरेको बताए। उनका अनुसार प्रहरी सहायक निरीक्षक लक्ष्मण भण्डारी, सिपाही मनोजकुमार कार्की र तिलकराम चौधरीलाई निलम्बन गरिएको छ। यी तीनै जना प्रहरी सिंह कारागार प्रवेश गर्दा चेकिङमा थिए। प्रहरीले कारागारको सुरक्षाको जिम्मेवारी रहेको डीएसपी लगायतका अन्य प्रहरी अधिकृतलाई भने अनुसन्धान र कारबाहीको दायरामा ल्याएको छ।

प्रहरीले पक्राउ परेका सिंहलाई महानगरीय प्रहरी अपराध महाशाखाको हिरासतमा राखेर अनुसन्धान सुरु गरेको छ।

गोली हान्ने भारतीय नागरिक जज्जीत सिंह, 'हतियार गुप्ताङ्गमा लुकाएर लगियो'
महानगरीय प्रहरी आयुक्तको कार्यालयले युनुस अन्सारीमाथि भएको गोली प्रहारको विषयमा जानकारी दिन आयोजित पत्रकार सम्मेलनमा गोली हान्ने अभियुक्त जज्जीत सिंहलाई सार्वजनिक गरेको छ। प्रहरीको सुरक्षा घेरा तोडेर युनुससम्म पुग्ने भारतीय नागरिक सिंह अर्का कैदी चार्ल्स सोभराजलाई भेट्ने निहुँमा आएको आयुक्त अर्जुनजंग शाहीले जानकारी दिए। उनका अनुसार अभियुक्त सिंहले पेस्तोल गुप्ताङ्गमा लुकाएर भित्र लगेको अनुसन्धानले देखाएको छ। उनले भारतमा चार हत्या गरिसकेको प्रारम्भिक अनुसन्धानमा देखिएको छ, आयुक्त शाहीले भने, कलंकीको एउटा घरमा बसेर सिंह र अन्य दुई जनाले योजना बनाएका थिए।

केन्द्रीय कारागारका दुई प्रहरी जवान निलम्बित
महानगरीय प्रहरी आयुक्त कार्यालयले सुरक्षा चेकिङमा त्रुटी गरेको अभियोगमा केन्द्रीय कारागरको सुरक्षामा खटिएका दुई जना प्रहरीलाई निलम्बन गरेको छ। आयुक्त कार्यालयका प्रवक्ता माधव नेपालले आगन्तुकको चेकिङमा खटिएका दुई जना प्रहरी जवानलाई निलम्बन गरी अनुसन्धान सुरु गरिएको बताए। निलम्बित जवानको नाम खुल्न  नसकेको नागरिकन्युजकर्मी केपी ढुंगानाले बताए।

प्रहरीले थाल्यो एआईजीको नेतृत्वमा छानबिन 
प्रहरी प्रधान कार्यालयले कार्यविभागका प्रमुख एआईजी रवीन्द्रप्रताप शाहको नेतृत्वमा उच्चस्तरीय छानबिन समिति गठन गरेको छ। प्रहरी प्रवक्ता नवराज ढकालका अनुसार समितिमा सशस्त्र निर्देशनालयका डीआईजी परशुराम खत्री र आयुक्त कार्यालयका एसएसपी माधव जोशी सदस्य छन्।

ढकालका अनुसार प्रहरीले संगठित सञ्जाल र केन्द्रीय कारागारमा भएको सुरक्षा त्रुटीको विषयमा अनुसन्धान गरिरहेको छ। उनले भने, 'अनुसन्धान प्रगतिउन्मुख छ, बेलुकासम्ममा धेरै जानकारी खुल्न सक्छ। जानकारी पूर्ण भएपछि पत्रकार सम्मेलन गरी दिनेछौँ।'

Bryan Adam’s Night in Kathmandu, Nepal

Bryan Adams is flying to London from Nepal today for his performance here on 22nd of February for City Rocks, the first major rock concert ever to be held in the City of London. I am not attending this London’s concert and that’s not exciting for me in anyway. What’s exciting is the last 24 hours that Bryan Adams spent in the kingdom of Himalayas, Nepal.

Bryan Adams leaves Kathmandu nearly after 24 hours of his visit and a power-packed 120 minutes of live performance last night in Kathmandu, Nepal. For those in Kathmandu, it should have been an awesome night. Bryan Adams will always be remembered in Nepal for years to come for being the first westerner to play in Nepal. Even Bryan Adams himself is proud of that. Indeed a night to remember!

See the screenshot of his official website after the performance in Kathmandu. (I can’t imagine his homepage being better than this; Katmandu, Nepal Ka ka ka ka ka Katmandu!)

Bryan Adams started with Bob Segar’s Kathmandu, although a perfect choice, it was really unexpected when everyone was waiting to sing along with his tunes. A major highlight of the show and also a song that was enjoyed to the fullest by the audience was “summer of ’69”. Watch the video below of the live performance to see how people went crazy over the singer’s husky voice and urged him to sing it once again.

And then he continued with (Everything I Do) I Do It for You, one of my best B-man’s music from movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Bryan in his two hours of performance continued with his other hits including Straight From the Heart, I’m Ready, 18 till I Die, Cloud # 9, Back to You, and The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You.

With his powerful performance, Bryan Adams not only entertained the whole Kathmandu but also demonstrated he was as powerful as his songs even on stage with his live performances. Bryan Adams is undoubtedly one of the Rock legends and his live performances that includes somewhere around 120 concerts a year around the globe have established him as one of the world’s best rock singers of our time.

People from every walk of life attended the show. It was not just the youngsters and rock stars of Kathmandu, bankers and other professionals also attended the show. Along with Anil Shah, CEO of Megabank and Radhesh Pant, chief of Kumari Bank; there was one luckier banker who attended the show. Brinda Singh, an executive with the Bank of Kathmandu and surprisingly who happens to be the struggling singer turned banker, steals the Bryan Adam’s show as she was chosen among 20,000 cheering fans to croon ‘When you are gone’ along with the singer. This made the event more interesting on one hand and on other helped Brinda singh for overnight popularity. (She was there on all national dailies today and some channels of Nepal, watch the video below!).

The concert will definitely grow up Bryan Adams fan base in Nepal and lot of Nepalis will remember his songs in days to come. The 20k crowd behaved at their best and it should have been the most organized concerts with such a huge crowd. “We became friends tonight,” Bryan Adams said adding he had never thought he’d be performing in Nepal while writing or composing the songs he sang Saturday night.

Bryan Adam’s tweet that came along with the photo taken by him (on the top) also suggests how amazing the concert was.

“Tonight from the stage…Katmandu, Nepal, you were amazing”

And as Times of India reports “Democracy Day in Nepal this year seems to have a new hero. And no, it’s not the country’s new Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal.”

Not everything was as cool as we saw it though. Bryan Adams concert should be hugely successful one and each of us deserves some credit for making to it so. But at the same time, if you got some time to listen to our very own Nepali issues, you will be bit of disappointed to have realized it. Earlier rumours of Nepali Bands (that consisted of 1974 AD, Namaste, Raju Lama (Mongolian Heart), Ishwore Gurung (Namaste), and Robin Tamang (Robin And The New Revolution) performing for free for the Bryan Adams concert left everyone questioning about their standards. That may not be true enough (I hope so) but after looking at views of some important personalities attending the event, I doubt if it worked all that well on the Nepali side.

Notably, Malvika Subba on her Facebook Page writes “Through mismanagement, politics, lack of dressing room for Nepali artists and chaos, the BA concert took place. I hosted but there was no excitement until Brian dài turned up.”

Asish Syangden of Radio Kantipur tweets “hamro nepali bands haru ko halat backstage at Bryan Adams Concert. On the floor” along with the below photo.

Samriddhi Rai on her Facebook writes “Sitting down and clapping while the 3 year kiddo sings our national anthem: Dinesh DC what’s wrong with you? You have become the most hated person in my facebook and I am sure you are also most hated by the 20,000 people who witnessed u too” (Watch out her column on FR!DAY weekly about Bryan Adams story)

Anyway let me not dive into pessimistic things. I am still proud that Bryan Adams Concert finally happened in Nepal.

Fears of security and even a possible stampede prevailed before the event in the city and the case was made livelier as the singer’s concert of Delhi got cancelled on grounds of security. If it were to go along with all those cynics, the event was seemingly impossible. Yet, Bryan Adams concert in Nepal being a hugely successful event proved that we were more into sceptics and to the positive aspect, we are capable of hosting events as such. As the show was also related to one of the important events of the country, i.e. Tourism year of Nepal 2011, the success should also be cheered by our tourism authorities as they believed the show would send out the message to the world that Nepal was a safe destination to most of them.

Fine Bryan Adams won’t help us for our Tourism Year publicity but Bryan’s popularity cannot be simply ignored. One of the Rock legends, he has thousands of fans and followers. A successful event as such has helped us to raise the bar of our entertainment industry and this will lure some other popular artists to opt for something similar in future. And as Bryan says hopefully ‘May this first become a way to many other bands to come and perform here,’

The Bryan-Twitter Effect:

Being a social media fan my post won’t be complete if don’t talk about twitter here. Twitter, unsurprisingly became an effective social media tool for Bryan Adam’s concert. Like most of the popular celebrities, Bryan also made twitter one of the effective tools to communicate with the Nepali fans. His arrival tweets, experience tweets and tweets replying to some of the Nepali fans helped lot many out of the country (like me) and those unable to attend the concert to be connected with the concert. Some journalists attending the event (@wagle @rajneeshb) and other bloggers and tweeples covering the event even though they were not present at the event made the overall twitter experience really incredible! Hopefully this will also inspire a lot Nepalis to join the twitter culture. (BTW if you are joining twitter or are already there, please follow @nepaliblogger)

To be honest, I am not a Bryan Adams fan and I doubt even if just a good percentage of those 20k attendees of Bryan Adams’ concert were fan before his concert yesterday. (I know most of those attendants should have turned into fans of Bryan Adams after his performance yesterday) However thankful I may be for his big concert in Nepal, I am not going for his performance here in London. In a different note for Nepali’s living in London; if you happen to be Bryan Adams fan (from long ago or just because he was the first one to have performed in our country) you can catch him on 22nd of this month at City Rocks, the first major rock concert ever to be held in the City of London and dubbed as a landmark occasion in London’s social calendar.

Before leaving the venue in Nepal, Bryan Adams reportedly said that he will be coming Nepal again to visit different places of the country and this time people will hardly notice about his arrival. Thank you Bryan, Thank you so much for performing in Nepal; we love you, we Love Nepal!

Bryan Adams in Nepal Gallery

Bryan Adams in Nepal Videos

Here’s one special video taken from Byran Adams itself from the stage. Nepal looks amazing!



Images via Nagarik News, Facebook, Twitter; Videos via Youtube

Krishna Prasad Bhattarai – Illustrious career [Gallery]

| Mar 05, 2011 | 

Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Nepal’s ex prime minister and founding leader of Nepali Congress died at age of 87 while undergoing treatment at Norvic International Hospital in Kathmandu on Friday night at 11.26 pm.

Here’s his Illustrious career gallery.

An overview of Illustrious career of Krishna Prasad Bhattarai.

• In his youth, Bhattarai was a journalist. He was one of the first foreign journalists to interview the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the then USSR, Khrushchev.
• During the political movement of 1950 to overthrow the Rana autocracy, initiated by the Bairgania Conference of the Nepali Congress on 26–27 September 1950, he was in charge of armed group Congress Mukti Sena fighting in Gorkha district.
• After the first parliamentary election of 1959, at the age of 36, he became Speaker of lower house of parliament, though he was not an elected member. After the coup of 1960, Bhattarai was held without trial for eight years at the Sundarijal Military detention Camp.
• Bhattarai was nominated as the officiating President of the Nepali Congress on February 12, 1976 by then party supremo Jananayak BP Koirala.
• Bhattarai was the Prime Minister of the Interim Government after the successful movement of 1990.
• He was elected President of the Nepali Congress by the Eighth National Conference of the Nepali Congress, held in January 1992.
• He was prime minister when constitution (1990) of Nepal was promulgated and successfully held the first multi-party election in 30 years.
• He again served as Prime Minister from May 1999 to March 2000.
• Bhattarai was life-long bachelor.
• His position supporting the monarchy and inactivity in political movement that brought down the government headed by then king Gyanendra, made him increasingly irrelevant than controversial.

Adieu Krishna Prasad Bhattarai!