In a latest study, Nauru tops the list of countries with the greatest percentage of overweight people, with an alarming 94.5% of its adult population (ages 15+) classified as such, based on the most recent estimates by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Nepal ranked 189, 6th from the bottom, with 8.5% of the population overweight. […]

Nepal has registered itself as the newest republic in the world with a recent declaration to convert the kingdom to a federal democratic republic. Now onward the king is considered an ordinary citizen.
The first sitting of the Constituent Assembly (CA) unanimously declared Nepal a republic late on Wednesday night, with only four votes against the […]

Two new records were set by two Nepali mountaineers on the top of Mt. Everest.
The first record was set by Appa Sherpa, 48, who climbed the highest peak for the 18th time.
The second record was set by a 76 year old (turning 77 in a few days) senior Min Bahadur Serchan. Sherchan has broken the […]

With an aim to set a new world record for the longest illustration, a noted Nepali artist has created a 130-metre-long acrylic painting, taking less than 13 hours for the job.
Kiran Manandhar, 51, created the painting titled `Abako Nepal` or the `Nepal of today` on April 25, 2008 at the 190-year-old structure `Dharahara`, known as […]

Actress Megan Fox, 21, was named the world’s sexiest woman by FHM Online’s annual online poll. Fox, actress in last year’s hit movie “Transformers”, grabbed the title from last year’s sexiest women Jessica Alba, who dropped to No. 3 in the 2008 list of 100 Sexiest Women in the World.
Fox debuted on the list […]

Average height of Nepali male is 5′4″ and women are usually shorter than their opposite sex.
But a girl from Siraha, Urmila Kumari Chaudhari, 17, is 80 kg in weight and 7′ 1″ tall. The height has caused a lot of problem in her day-to-day life.
It is not official but she might be the […]

India’s Tata Motors on Thursday unveiled its much anticipated $2,500 car, an ultra-cheap price tag that brings car ownership into the reach of tens of millions of people. But critics worry the car could overwhelm the country’s roads and create an environmental nightmare.
Company Chairman Ratan Tata, introducing the Nano during India’s main auto show, drove […]

As a child I used to skip stones on a nearby pond but never thought such a thing can be a sport and one can break records. But after seeing the video (posted below) I have to admit it sure is incredible.

A Pennsylvania man cast a stone that skipped on water a whopping 51 times, […]

Hotel Udaya Samudra in India has plans to roll out a 50-foot sandwich to beat the world record on the World Food Day, October 16th.
According to the news source, the current Guiness World Record for the tallest sandwich is 42 feet set by O’Brien’s Irish Sandwich bar of Ireland on April 25, 2003.
The official […]

A team of researchers and climbers, curious about how the body responds to low-oxygen conditions, have reached the summit of Mount Everest to take blood sample.

The group didn’t quite manage its goal of taking blood samples on the peak. “We decided that taking an arterial blood sample on the summit itself was too dangerous,” team […]