Bands played to a dwindling crowd of Earthlings late Saturday at one remaining festival spawned by a “Storm Area 51” internet craze in the remote Nevada desert.

“Topi pasals that were once rare have now evolved in the market because of the  people following the topi fashion”, says Kamala Pradhan. Pradhan has been running a topi pasal at the heart of Bhaktapur for over five decades.

DANG, May 23: ‘Smart city’ was a buzzword during the local level elections a year ago. Political parties and candidates told voters that they would leave no stone unturned to turn their constituencies into smart cities. That means, people who were struggling for even basic services would have access to luxuries of life in their own localities. Locals of Dang were promised so by their leaders.

KATHMANDU, August 29: The ruling Nepali Congress (NC) and its key ally in government, the CPN (Maoist Center), are said to be on the same page on a number of issues, including constitution amendment. This is said to have brought the Maoist Center closer to the NC, severing its ties with the main opposition party, the CPN-UML in August, 2016.

Genre films essentially ask the audience, "Do you still want to believe this?" Popularity is the audience answering, "Yes". Change in genre occurs when the audience says, "That's too infantile a form of what we believe. Show us something more complicated,” as per Leo Braudy in his book ‘The World in a Frame: What We See in Films’.

JAJARKOT, Oct 14: One thing that hurts elderly Sher Bahadur Khatri of Khagenkot VDC-6 here is the gradual decline of traditional folk culture and practices during the Dashain festivities in the district.