Why is Pokhara the best place to hang out? Quoted as the “City Of Lakes”‚ Pokhara is absolutely a piece of heaven. Tourists generally visit Pokhara to view the spectacular Himalayan ranges‚ for boating‚ adventure sports‚ trekking and many more. Located 200km far from Kathmandu‚ Pokhara is peaceful and green‚ unlike Kathmandu. Based at the foot of Annapurna mountain‚ Pokhara is the gateway to Annapurna Base Camp (ABC) and Upper Mustang. It is not difficult to reach Pokhara as there are several
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Regional Agricultural Research Station‚ Lumle (RARS‚ Lumle) was founded initially as Lumle Agricultural Training Centre in 1968. It was responsible for the training of retiring personnel from the Gurkha Regiments of the British Army‚ in improved agricultural technologies‚ which could be implemented by them on returning to their villages in the hill districts of Nepal. In 1975‚ funding for the Centre was transferred to the United Kingdom (UK) Government’s Overseas Development Administration (ODA)
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The countries in South Asia‚ while enjoying their own peculiarities‚ share common culture and ways of life. The norms and values‚ mainly of Hinduism‚ Islam‚ Buddhism and Sikhism‚ are deeply rooted in South Asian societies. Though the numbers of followers of these religious and cultural mainstays vary from country to country‚ their presence and influence in local arts‚ cultures and traditions are distinctly visible in every country and society in the region. Nepal‚ too‚ has its unique geography‚ history
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Nepal Nepal‚ officially Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal is a landlocked Himalayan country located in South Asia between tow boulders China and India. It has eight of the world’s 14 tallest mountains‚ including the top of the world‚ Mount Everest. The country seems a dot in the globe‚ however‚ an altitude is ranging 60 m. to 8848 m. above the sea level between 129 km. distance. Sixty-five percent people rely on agriculture. Nepali is an official language in the multi-linguistic‚ multi-religious
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Every soldier is a hero‚ but before that he is a son‚ a father‚ a brother and a husband. In spite of all these responsibilities‚ the greater responsibility that they shoulder is a country’s safety. India has seen many wars in the past century. Indian soldiers were part of World War 1 & 2 before Independence. India has fought wars with Pakistan 4 times since the partition and once with China and during these wars we lost a lot of good men. The achievements of some soldiers deserve a special mention
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girl‚ an orphan called Sai‚ living with her Cambridge-educated Anglophile grandfather‚ a retired judge‚ in the town of Kalimpong on the Indian side of the Himalayas. Sai is romantically involved with her math tutor‚ Gyan‚ the descendant of a Nepali Gurkha mercenary‚ but he eventually recoils from her obvious privilege and falls in with a group of ethnic Nepalese insurgents. In a parallel narrative‚ we are shown the life of Biju‚ the son of Sai’s grandfather’s cook‚ who belongs to the "shadow class"
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The First War of Indian Independence or The Great Revolt of 1857: The Indian soldiers in the East India Company’s army rebelled against the British in 1857. The English historians have painted this revolt as a mutiny of the sepoys. But the Indian historians describe it as the First war of Indian Independence. It is also known as the Great Revolt of 1857. Lord Canning was the Governor-General of India at that time. The causes of the Great Revolt were many. They may be classified as political‚ administrative
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The history of Nepal The history of Nepal is characterized by its isolated position in the Himalayas and its two neighbors‚ India and China. Due to the arrival of disparate settler groups from outside through the ages‚ it is now a multi-ethnic‚ multi-cultural‚ multi-lingual country. Its population is predominantly Hindu with significant presence of Buddhists‚ who were in majority at one time in the past. Central Nepal was split in three kingdoms from the 15th to 18th century‚ when it was unified
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According to a small selection of biographies and autobiographies of British and Indian WWII veterans‚ there were important commonalities in the backgrounds of the soldiers and commonalities along with some differences for motivations to enlist. There were commonalities in their background in the selections because both British and Indians had many different classes in their society enlist. The commonalties in motivations to enlist stem from the less wealthy British and Indian soldiers mostly joining
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Mughal Era In 1526‚ Babur‚ a Timurid descendant of Timur and Genghis Khan from Fergana Valley(modern day Uzbekistan)‚ swept across theKhyber Pass and established the Mughal Empire‚ covering modern day Afghanistan‚ Pakistan‚ India and Bangladesh.[79] However‚ his son Humayun was defeated by the Afghan warrior Sher Shah Suri in the year 1540‚ and Humayun was forced to retreat to Kabul. After Sher Shah’s death‚ his son Islam Shah Suri and the Hindu king Samrat Hem Chandra Vikramaditya‚ who had won
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