The Nepali Congress is a social democratic political party in Nepal and the largest party in the country. The party has 870,106 members as of the party's 14th general convention in December 2021 making them the largest party by membership in Nepal.
Ravi Kishan Shukla, popularly known as Ravi Kishan, is an Indian actor, politician, film producer and television personality. He currently serves as Member of parliament, Lok Sabha from Gorakhpur. His film works are predominantly in Bhojpuri and Hindi cinema, as well as Telugu cinema. He has also appeared in a few Kannada and Tamil films.
Throughout the year, different organizations host pride parades in Nepal. Blue Diamond Society, an LGBT rights organization, in 2010 organized Gai Jatra Gay March, with most participants on masks to prevent being identified by suspected homophobic people. In recent years, many pride parades in different times of the years have been organized. Due to criticism of Blue Diamond Society for organizing pride parade in Gaijatra festival many organizations deviated into new rallies All the parades by Blue Diamond Society have coincided with the Gaijatra festival. The parades end with a candle-light vigil in memories of those who died in the past year, promoting equality for all.
Nepali Tara is a Nepali reality television series that debuted on NTV in 2005. The show is a talent contest to decide the best new singer in Nepal based on viewer voting and participation. It's loosely based on British TV series Pop Idol, but is independently produced and is not a licensed adaptation. The first season was conceived by Brazesh Khanal and executed by Neelbarahi Films Studio 4, as the production house, aired in Nepal television. It became immensely popular with the Nepali Television audience. The packaging of the program was unique
Rabi Lamichhane is a Nepali politician and former journalist. He is a member of the House of Representatives from Chitwan 2 since 28 April 2023, having previously represented the constituency from December 2022 to January 2023. He also briefly served as the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs between December 2022 to January 2023.
Nepal Idol is a Nepali reality television singing competition that is part of the Idols franchise created and owned by FremantleMedia. Nepal Idol 2017 is the first season of Idol Franchise in Nepal which aired on AP1 TV.
Buddha Lama is Nepalese singer, actor, dancer and model who rose to fame after winning the title and becoming the first winner of Nepalese TV series Nepal Idol. Since winning Nepal Idol, he has become a teen idol. Lama holds the title for Nepal Idol winner for the season one with Nishan Bhattarai as runner up and Partap Das as second runner up. Buddha Lama is runner-up of Nepal’s first session of Dancing with the stars.
Rohit Kumar Paudel is a Nepalese cricketer and current captain of the Nepal national cricket team. He made his List A debut for Nepal in the 2018 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament on 8 February 2018. He was inspired to play cricket, after Nepal played in the ICC T20 World Cup in Bangladesh. In January 2019, he became the youngest male cricketer to score an international half-century. The record was broken in February 2020, by his team-mate Kushal Malla. He is also all time highest run scorer of Nepal in ODI format and first Nepalese player to score 1000 runs in ODI cricket. Rohit Paudel was named captain of the Nepal cricket team in November 2022.
Shrinkhala Khatiwada is a Nepalese model and Miss Nepal World 2018. She represented Nepal in Miss World 2018. She also became the second Nepali after Ishani Shrestha to win Beauty with a Purpose Award. She was in the Top 12 of Miss World 2018.
The Voice of Nepal is the Nepalese format of the international TV singing reality series called The Voice. The show usually have four different coaches (judges), which eventually form a four different team after the selection event called the Blind Audition. Each team has to go through the battle round where contestants are paired with one another within the same team and only half of the total selected contestants from the blind audition are selected for the knockout round. During the knockout round, based on The Voice format, only the best and strongest contestants who their respective coach consider the best overall are selected by their coaches. They also have the sole right to do this on his or her own and take them to the live round. During the live round event, through a series of voting episodes, only one contestant with the most popular vote will advance to the grand finale. The first season of the voice of Nepal was won by CD Vijaya Adhikari from Team Deep, season 2 was won by Ram Limbu from Team Pramod and season 3 was won by Kiran Gajmer from Team Pramod. The Grand Finale of season 1 was held on 14 December 2018 in Quatar stadium, the second season's Grand finale was held at Taragaon Open Field Chuchchepati Kathmandu on 7 December 2019 and the third season's Grand Finale was held in The Voice Studio, Dhumbarahi. The voice of Nepal was bought by Himalaya Television.
Prashna Shakya is a Nepali pop singer. In 2003, Hits FM awarded her Best Pop Performance Female.
Pramod Kharel is a Nepalese singer. He is a versatile singer of the Nepali music industry. He has recorded more than 2000 songs of different genres. He is a coach in The Voice of Nepal Season 1 (2018), 2 (2019), 3 (2020-2021) & 4 (2022).
CD Vijaya Adhikari is a Nepali singer and a music composer. He is the winner of The Voice of Nepal Season One. He also participated in an environmental song titled "Melancholy", sung by 365 Nepali Artists, which set a Guinness World Records in entitled "Most Vocal Solos in a Song Recording". The song was conceptualized, written, composed and directed by Environmentalist Nipesh DHAKA.
Anushka Shrestha is a Nepalese beauty pageant title holder who was crowned Miss World Nepal 2019 on 9 May 2019. Shrestha also won Miss Nepal Oceania 2018. She was crowned by her predecessor Shrinkhala Khatiwada.
Nepal POMSOGIESC Pride Parade, known as Nepal Pride Parade in short, is organized on every second Saturday of June. The Pride March is organized by Queer Youth Group in collaboration with Queer Rights Collective. Since 2020, Campaign for Change has also been involved. This Pride March marked establishment of first independent Pride Parade in Nepal.
Surendra Prasad Singh was a Nepalese judge who served as 9th Chief Justice of Nepal, in office from 26 September 1995 to 14 February 1997. He was appointed by the then-king of Nepal, Birendra.
The People's Socialist Party, Nepal, also known as Janata Samajbadi Party is the sixth-largest political party in Nepal. Since the 2022 local election, the party has been limited to stand only as the third largest party of Madhesh Province after the Nepali Congress and CPN (UML) respectively. Recently the party faced multiple splits under Mahantha Thakur, Baburam Bhattarai, Mahendra Ray Yadav and Resham Lal Chaudhary.
Sajja Chaulagain is Nepalese singer who won the title and became the first female winner of Nepalese TV series Nepal Idol. Winner for the season three with Prabin Bedwal as runner up and Kiran Kumar Bhujel as second runner up. Chaulagain was born at Pathari of Morang district. She is the lead vocalist of The Loading Band. Sajja Chaulagain is the daughter of Tanka Bahadur Chaulagain and Geeta Chaulagain.
The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Socialist) (Nepali: नेपाल कम्युनिष्ट पार्टी (एकीकृत-समाजवादी), romanized: Nēpāla kamyuniṣṭa pārṭī (Ēkīkr̥ta-Samājavādī)), abbreviated as CPN (Unified Socialist) is a political party in Nepal led by former Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal. As of March 2022, the party had voted in favour of Dahal government and is an important ally in the governing coalition.
Bharat Mani Paudel is a Nepali standup comedian. He was born in the Fungling municipality of Taplejung, Nepal. He was a winner of Comedy Champion Season 2.
