Samba goes global as foreign dancers bring Rio Carnival home

Paraiso de Tuiuti has been a cradle of Carnival culture for people in the working-class area near downtown Rio de Janeiro for over 60 years. But the dancer herself is an import. Jessica Hahn-Chaplin hails from Bristol, England.

VNY 2020: Milestone in tourism development

The beginning of this calendar year has seen the commencement of Visit Nepal Year (VNY) 2020 which is the third and latest in the series of Visit Nepal Year and Nepal Tourism Year campaigns. The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation had initially planned to start tourism year some two and half years ago in FY 2017/18 but the plan had to be postponed due to delay in the construction and upgrading of roads, reconstruction and renovation of historical monuments of art and architecture, maintenance...

The complicated business of saving elephant tourism

An initiative to turn a poor village in Nepal into a high-end destination, if successful, will shine a light not only on how the future of elephant tourism can be, but on the wider, never-ending quest of how best to spread tourism dollars to remote communities.

Khiji Demba Ultra Marathon 2020 to promote Okhaldunga tourism

11 In a bid to highlight a variety of tourist attractions the Okhaldhunga district offers, a 42-km Khiji Demba Ultra Marathon 2020 is going to be organised in Khiji Demba Rural Municipality of the district on March 2.

Rose sales up ahead of Valentine’s Day

the demand for and import of rose is higher ahead of Valentine's Day than at other times. 

Seven nabbed over Nagarjun explosion

The bomb had gone off at the main gate of Dhakal’s house

Brothers murder sister's lover, 2 of 3 arrested

Mohammad was found with the girl by her brothers at around 11pm when they came searching for their sister as she was missing from the house until midnight.

Ad blocking takes off on mobile phones, a challenge for publishers

The number of people using ad-blocking technology on mobile browsers has surged to 527 million, an increase of 64% over the last three years, according to a report published Thursday. Combined with ad blocking on personal computers, that means a total of 763 million devices were running ad blockers in the fourth quarter of 2019, the report said.

Facebook, Google use leads to more diverse news consumption

Turning conventional wisdom on its head, researchers have found that use of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, or search engine Google actually results in more visits to news sites and a greater variety of news sites visited.

China’s smartphone giants reportedly unite to challenge Google’s Play Store

Huawei, Xiaomi, and BBK’s Oppo and Vivo are working together on a platform that will allow developers outside of China to upload their apps to all of the respective app stores simultaneously, Reuters reports.