Nepal News

Unique Nepali Calendar The Nepali calendar called Bikram Sambhat is approximately 67 years and 8.5 months ahead of the Gregorian calendar. The Nepali New Year is celebrated in mid-April.   Slaughtering cows is illegal As a national animal of the country and considered ‘holy’, the slaughtering of cows is illegal in Nepal. It is not…

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The new Nepali Ambassador,  His Excellency Mr Gyan Chandra Acharya and his wife were invited to visit the Queen.  A coach and horses were sent to fetch them which they were impressed with but found it rather cold and were frozen stiff on their arrival!!!

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June sees the start of the monsoon period, bringing rain, heat and humidity and unfortunately diarrhoea and mosquitos!!The monsoon sweeps up from the Bay of Bengal across Bangladesh and north-eastern India, and up through Nepal.The monsoon is a blessing and a curse at the same time.   The rains are essential for rice planting. It would…

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