Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Jawalakhel means "rice throwing field" in Nepal Bhasa. The name is derived from the large open field at the town's center where cooked rice is offered during an annual religious festival. The field is the venue of Bhoto Jātrā, the festival of the display of the sacred vest, which is the most important cultural event held in Jawalakhel.
The Central Zoo (Nepali: सदर चिडियाखाना) is a 6-hectare (15-acre) zoo in Jawalakhel, Nepal. It is home to some 969 animals in 109 species, and is operated by the National Trust for Nature Conservation (NTNC). Although it was originally a private zoo, it was opened to the public in 1956.
The Jawalakhel Zoo was built on the grounds of Jawalakhel Durbar by General Maheswar Shamshere Rana at the behest of his grandfather Juddha Shamshere. It was a private zoo later made into the only national zoo in Nepal.
Jawalakhel YC, also known as Jawalakhel Youth Club, is a Nepali professional football club from Jawalakhel, Lalitpur, Nepal. [3] They play in the Nepalese first division, the Martyr's Memorial A-Division League .
St. Xavier's School was established by the Jesuit missionary Marshall D. Moran.Fresh from the newly acquired democratic political system after a century long system of familial rule by the "Ranas", Nepal was beginning to open up to the world and the incumbent king of Nepal, Tribhuwan Bir Bikram Shah, is said to have personally invited Moran, who at that time was working in Patna, India, to ...
Lalitpur District (Nepali: ललितपुर जिल्ला Listen ⓘ, in Bagmati Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal.The district, with Lalitpur as its district headquarters, covers an area of 396.92 km 2 (153.25 sq mi) and has a population (2001) of 337,785.
The 2024 KP Oli Cup was the second edition of the KP Oli Cup, the domestic football tournament in Nepal.This year, a total of 10 teams participated in the competition. [1] ...
After the two chariots arrive in Jawalakhel, astrologers choose an auspicious date to hold the Bhoto Jatra festival. On the appointed day in the presence of the head of state, a government official climbs on to the chariot and holds up a jewel-studded black vest from the four sides of the chariot so that all the people gathered around can have ...