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 Important Personalities
 Important Days and slogas
  Best Picture Drama: The Power of Dog
 Best Picture Musical Comedy: West Side Story
 Best Actress: Nicole Kidman for Being the Ricardos
Golden Globe
 Best Actor: Will Smith for King Richards
Awards  Academy Awards (Oscar Award) is going to be organized: 94th
Oscars, 27 march in Dolby Theatre, Hollywood
Nobel Prizes
  1st time: 1901
 Physics: Rongten (X Ray)
 Chemistry: Von Hoff
Nobel Prize  Literature: Shaelie Pradhumn
 Peace: Jean Henry Dunant (red Cross) and Frederick Passe
 1st women: Marie Curie (Madam Curie) for Radioactivity
Nobel Prize
  Q and A
Nobel Prize  From 1901; Economics from 1868
  Bitcoin Created in 2009
 Based on Block chain Technology
 Based on ideas set by Satoshi Nakamoto (Japan)
 Venezuela introduced its own digital currency Petro 2018 Feb 20
Crypto  Facebook introduced its own digital currency: Libra
Currency
 IMF uses SDR (Special Drawing Rights)
 El Salvador becomes first country to use bitcoin as legal tender
 Nepal Rastra Bank has declared Bitcoin and other
cryptocurrencies as illegal forms of financial tender on Shrawan
29, 2074
 SN Country Date Capital

173 Democratic 2022 Feb 11 Dili

Republic of Timor (Magh 28)
Leste (191st UN
Diplomatic member)
Relations of 172 Barbados 2021 Dec 8 Bridgetown

Nepal
171 Sierra Leone 2021 June 29 Freetown
  PM Cup T20 National Cricket 2078: APF Club won by beating Police
Sports
International  Araniko International Awards: Hari Adhikari, 2 lakhs, NRN
language, literature, culture and heritage community
Awards

Award: To, sum, by

National  Best Partnership Forest prize: Sawaiya Community Forest, Parsa
Awards
  UN Year Ocean for Sustainable Development: 2021-2030
Various  UN Decade on Environmental Restoration: 2021-2030
  Online System in Land Revenue Offices (Malpot Karyalaya)
 First Women Deputy Governor in Nepal Ratra Bank: Neelam
Timsina Dhungana
 Secretariat for South Asian Olympic Council: to be opened in
Various Nepal
  By Central Statistical Department: 2078 Magh 12
 Popn of Nepal: 2 crore 91 lakh 92 thousand 480
 Population growth: 26 lakhs 97 thousand 9 hundred 76 (10.18%)
 Population growth rate: 0.93% (lowest in 80 years)
 Gender Ratio: 0.959 (~ 0.96) No. of male/No. of Female
Census 2078
 Nepali in foreign countries: 21 lakh 60 thousand 4 hundred 78
 Province:
 Madhesh Province
 Karnali Province

 Population Density: 198

  Local Bodies
 Rural Municipalities
 Baijanathpur, Banke
 Narpabhumi, Manang ( 442)

 Geography
 Terai 53.66 (From 50.27, +3.9%)
 Hill 40.25 (from 43.01, -6.41%)
 Himalayan 6.09 (from 6.73 , -10.50%)
Census 2078  Family density: 4.32
 Terai: 4.65
 Hill: 3.95
 Terai: 4.65
 In Province, lowest Gandaki (3.66), highest Madhesh (5.15)
 District wise, lowest Dolakha (3.41) highest Rautahat, Bara and
Kapilvastu (5.50)
  Pradesh 1: 17.03 %
 Madhesh Pradesh: 20.99 %
 Bagmati Pradesh: 20.84 %
 Gandaki Pradesh: 8.49 %
Provicial Data  Lumbini Pradesh: 17.55%
 Karnali Pradesh: 5.81%
 Sudurpaschim Pradesh: 9.28
 2,3,5,1,7,4,6
  Most Populated
 Kathmandu
 Morang
 Rupandehi
 Jhapa
 Sunsari

 Least Populated
District Wise  Manang
 Mustang
 Dolpa
 Rasuwa
 Humla

 Highest population growth: Bhaktapur

 Negative growth: 32
  Municipality
 Largest: Kathmandu
 Smallest: Thulibheri, Dolpa
Local Bodies
 Rural Municipality
(Population)  Largest: Baijanath, Banke
 Smallest: Narpabhumi, Manang
Sports
  Feb4- Feb 20, 2022
 Beijing China
 Motto: Together for Shared Future
 1st Gold: Norwegian Cross country Skier:- Therese Johaug
Winter  US, UK, Australia and Canada: Diplomatic Rejection

Olympics  Japan: No diplomatic rejection, but no players sent

 Every 4 years
 2018: PyeongChang (Korea)
 2026: Italy
 Winner RunnerUp
Mens Raphael Nadal (Spain) Daniil Medvedev
(Russia)
Womens Ashleigh Barty Danielle Collins (US)
(Australia)

Tennis • Nadal Wins 21st Grand slam (Highest by any individual

Australian •
•
Beats Federer and Djokovic who won 20 each)
King of Clay court
Open • Won 1st Grand Slam in 2009
• 35 years old
20th  Won by APF
Aaha Rara  APF won it for the first time

GoldCup  Defeated Manag Marsyangdi in Tie breaker (4-5)

  La liga: Athletico Madrid
 Premier League: Manchester City
 Serie A: Inter Milan
 Ligue 1: LOSC Lille
 Champions League: Chelsea
 Copa America: Argentina beating Brazil
Football
 Player of the tournament in Copa America: Lionel Messi
 Cricket coach of Nepal: Pubudu Dasanaike (Srilanka born
Canadian)
 Cricket Captain of Nepal: Sandeep Lamichhane
 Football coach of Nepal: Abdullah Almutari
  Ballon D’or: Messi (Argentina/PSG)
 Ballon D’or Feminin: Alexia Putellas (Spain/Barcelona)
 Kopa Trophy: Pedri (Spain/Barcelona)
Individual  Yashin Trophy: Gianluigi Donnarumma (Italy/PSG)
Awards  The best FIFA mens player: Robert Lewandowski (Poland)

(Football)  FIFA best female player: Alexia Putellas

 Best Manager: Thomas Tuchel
 Nepali Women’s Volleyball team wins AVC Central Zone Volleyball
Senior Women’s Challenge Cup by defeating Uzbekistan in the
finals. Nepal is the defending champions of the tournament.
 Sri Lanka won the men’s title defeating hosts Bangladesh

 Nepali cricketer Sita Rana Magar is set to play Fair Break

Invitational 2022, a women’s cricket tournament in Hong Kong
 International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed host countries for
upcoming ICC cricket events
 2024 T20 World Cup: USA and West Indies
 2025 Champions Trophy: Pakistan
 2026 T20 World Cup India and Srilanka
 2027 ODI World Cup: Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa
  33rd Olympics 2024; Paris, France
 34th Olympic Games (Summer) 2030 New York (USA)
 22 FIFA World Cup Football 2022: Qatar
 23rd FIFA World Cup football 2026: USA, Canada and Mexico
Upcoming  17th Eurocup Football 2024: Germany

games  Commonwealth Games 2022: England

 13th ICC World Cup Cricket 2023: India
 14 ICC World Cup Cricket 2027: S. Africa, Zimbabwe, Namibia
 20th Asian Games 2026: Aichi-Nagoya (Japan)
 21 Asian Games 2030: Qatar
  extended its "Person of the Year" brand to include "Hero of the
Time Year,"
magazine  awarded the 2021 title to vaccine scientists who developed the
COVID-19 vaccine
"Heroes of the
 Four scientists, Kizzmekia Corbett, Barney Graham, Katalin
Year 2021" Kariko, and Drew Weissman
Time person of  Elon Musk

the year 2021  the billionaire entrepreneur

  declares Rihanna 'national hero’
Barbados  it becomes newest republic of the world
Awards
  T x 2 Award by Bardiya National park for doubling the tiger
population (Presented in 2nd Tiger Summit in Russia in Sept 2022)
 Rolex Conservation Award 2021: Ecologist Rinzin Phunjok Lama
(Prize money: $200,000 Swiss Francs (CHF) and a Rolex
chronometer )
 Muskan Khatun wins 2021 International Women of Courage award
International (US Embassy)

Awards  Japanese Government Honors Himalaya Sumsher Rana Conferring

“The Order Of The Rising Sun Autumn Imperial Medal”
  Dr. Firdausi Qadri – Vaccine scientist from Bangladesh,
 Muhammad Amjad Saqib-Microfinance pioneer from Pakistan,

Roman  Roberto Balloon – Philipino fisher and community

environmentalist,
Magasassay  Steven Muncie – Humanitarian worker from the United States,
2021  WatchDoc- Indonesian torch bearer for investigative journalism.
  The 2021 Booker Prize for Fiction was awarded to Damon Galgut
for his novel “Promise”. Prize money: £50,000
 International Booker Prize winner is “At Night All Blood Is Black”
by David Diop 50,000 euros
 Grammy Awards 2021
 Record of the year: Everything I Wanted by Billie Eilish
International  Album of the year: “Folklore” by Taylor Swift
 Song of the year: “I Can’t Breathe” by Dernst Emile II, H.E.R. and
Awards Tiara Thomas

 Blue Planet Award

 Prof. Veerabhadran Ramanathan, USA and Prof. Mohan
Munasinghe. Srilanka.
 This prize was established during Rio Earth Summit in 1992 A.D.
 Founded by Asahi Glass foundation (Japan).
 Prize money: 50 million Japanese yen
 OSCARS
 Best picture/movie: Nomadland (Won the most)
 Director: Chloe (“Nomadland”)

UPDATE!
  Coronavirus was identified 1964 Virologist Dr. Almeida at
laboratory Hospital London.
 2019 Dec 31: first case of Covid 19 was reported in Wuhan ( Hubei
Province)
 Respiratory Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)” the name new 11
February 2020.
 2020 January 11: China reported first known death from an illness
caused new coronavirus.
 WHO Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Ethiopia) declared the
COVID 19 novel Coronavirus outbreak a Public Health Emergency of
international concern in March 11
 2020 March 15: Formation of SAARC COvid-19 emergency fund
 Russia becomes the first country in the world to approve a vaccine
for the coronavirus.
 The Gamaleya Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology and
Microbiology developed the Russian vaccine “Sputnik V
 Alpha first seen in UK, Beta in South Africa, Gamma in Brazil, Delta
in India, Omicron in South Africa
  Bhairab Puraskar 2078: Naranath Luitel ( 1,11,111: Bhairab
Puraskar Guthi)
National  Bhairab Bangmaya Puraskar: Cultural anthropologist Tejeshwor
Awards Gwang (“ “ “)
 Bhairab Pratibha Puraskar: Bimal Bhaukaji (55,555)
  Madan Puraskar 2077 is awarded to Bhagiraj Ingnam for his book
Collection of Historical Documents of Limbuwan (Prize money: NPR 4
lacs.)
 Choreographer Bhairav Bahadur Thapa is honoured with the
Jagdamba-Shree award 2077(NPR 4 lacs.)
 Novel “Patthar” authored by Shyam Shah and novel
“Kadam”authored by Ananta Waglemreceived Pahichanpuraskar 2078
(NPr. 4,02,002)
 Santosh Shah wins Masterchef: The Professionals Rematch 2021
 Padmashree Sahitya Puraskar 2077 : novelist Keshab Dahal for his
National novel “Mokshabhumi”.

Awards  Padmashree Sadhana Samman 2077 :Bhajan Shiromani “Bhakta Raj

Acharya”. Pratisthan (presented by the Khemlal-Harikala Lamichhane
Samaaj Kalyan Prize, 3lakhs)
 Eminent writer of Nepali language Lil Bahadur Chhetri conferred
Padma Shri award, 2021
 his major works include Basain (1957), Brahmaputra Ko Chheu Chhao
Atripta , Dobato.
Important Personalities
  92 Edward O. Wilson, a biologist studying , insects and human
nature died on 26” December 2021.
 Ant-man
E.O. Wilson  Coined term Biodiversity
 Wilson won Pulitzer Prizes for his 1978 book “On Human Nature,”
  Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace prize laureate in 1984
who helped end apartheid in South Africa, has died aged 90 (2021
Dec 26)
 India’s ‘Flying Sikh’ dies from Covid Popularly known as “the Flying
Personalities Sikh”,
 Bappi Lahri (Indian Singer): 15th feb, 2022
 Taranath Sharma (Tana): 15th feb, 2022 (Falgun 3)
  Death: 2022 Feb 6
 92 years of Age
Lata  30,000+ songs
Mangeskar  Filmfare, Padhma Bhusan, Padhma Bibhusan, Rajib Gandhi Award
 Nepali Songs: Bachunjelilai, Aakashma Tirmir Taara, Jun Baatoma,
etc)
  Feb 23, 2022 (Falgun 11)
Jayanand  Folk Song singer, actor and director
Lama  Songs like Kalkatte kaiyo, chui chui chuikaney jutta
Important Days
  Customs Day: Jan 26
International
 Slogan: Scaling Up Customs Digital Transformation by Embracing
Days a Data Culture and Building a Data Ecosystem
  Nepal India Train Agreement (Birgunj/Biratnagar to Kolkata/
Hardia: 2078 Ashar 25 (July 9, 2021)
Chronological  Nepal Telecom’s Voice Over Long Term Evolution (VOLTE) : 2078
Date Magh 22
  SAG Game: 5 Cities of Pakistan
 Kami Rita Sherpa scales Mt. Everest for record 25th time Nepalese
climber Kami Rita Sherpa scaled Mount Everest for the 25th time
on 7th May, 2021 (2078) Baishakh 24).
 Hong Kong mountaineer Tsang Yin-hung has recorded the world’s
fastest ascent of Everest by woman. Tsang, 44, scaled the
8,848.86-metre (29,031 feet) mountain in a record time of 25
hours and 50 minutes
himalaya  Nirmal Purja makes history by climbing all 14 peaks above 8,000
meters in 190 days
 mission as “Project Posssible”
 10 strong team reached the peak of the world’s second tallest
mountain on January 16 afte hours of slogging through the
mountain high altitude ‘death zone”.
  Community Seed Bank: Machhapuchhre Village Municipality,
Kaski
 World Capital of Architecture: Rio de Jenerio , Brazil (by UNESCO)
 Auto Village: In Butwal
 Peagasus: Spy Software
 Statue of Satya Mohan Joshi to be placed in France understanding
Tipan Taapan to build a statue of Satya Mohan Joshi,
 . Nepal becomes 2nd largest troops-contributor to UN
Peacekeeping missions: Nepal has become the second largest
troops-contributing country in the United Nations
 Bangladesh is the top contributor while Nepal is followed by India
in third place.
  Abu Dhabi Dialogue (ADD) was held in Dubai from 26 to 27
October, 2021.
 Former USA president Donald Trump launches TRUTH’ social
media platform TRUTH Social
 NMB wins Bank of the Year 2021 Asia and Bank of the Year 2021
Tipan Tapan Nepal by The Banker magazine, London
 AUKUS Agreement:
 AUKUS, also called Aukus is a trilateral security pact signed between
UK, USA and Australia to Counter China
 The agreement was signed on 21” of September, 2021 for the Indo-
Pacific region
  App used for study of birds in Nepal: Chhimeki Chara
 President of Securities board of Nepal: Ramesh Hamal
 Nepal Largest 400 kv substation in: Dhanusha
 First Women Dalit CDO: Sita Pariyar (CDO of Humla)
 Civil service information centre: Civil Service Kitabkhana, Lalitpur

Tipan Taapan  Winter Olympic Winner: Norway (37 medals, 16 gold) followed by
Germany and China
 Highest 3rd wicket partnership in T20: Kushal Bhurtel(4th Nepali
to score century in T20) and Dipendra Singh Airee
 Teams that qualify for T20 world cup: UAE and Ireland
  Social Health Insurance Scheme of the government has been
implemented in all 77 districts
 Mustang becomes the last district to implement Health Insurance
Health program in 2078 Jetha 01
 The program, launched in 2015 (2072 B.S.),
Insurance
 In FY 2071/72, the Government of Nepal had announced to roll out
the scheme in three district (Kailai, Baglung and Illam)
  Nepal aims to achieve full digital transformation by 2030 Digital
Nepal
 Nepal faces ‘Budget Holiday for the very first time 2078 Bhadra
30/2021 September 15
 Rajendra Pandey, the parliamentary party leader of the CPN
(Unified Socialist) of Bagmati
 The first female chief minister of Nepal is Ashta Laxmi Shakya
Domestic (Bagmati Province)

Affairs  Gandaki Pradesh Declared Fully Literate Province – 2078 Ashwin

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 Bagmati Province has been declared literate on 11” Ashwin, 2078
(Kathmandu 55th district)
 Sindhupalchowk was declared the first fully literate district in the
country in 2015 (2071 Asar 02).
 Lalitpur was declared the first total literate district of the country
on 2071 Asar 09
  Sher Bahadur Deuwa elected the new prime minster of Nepal for
fifth time:
Domestic  The government has declared Bir Bhakti Thapa as national
luminary/dignitary on 28 June 2021 (17th)
Affairs  Sagarmath new height 8848.86 m (Dec 08, 2020)
 Rana Tharu: 60” Indigenouse caste on 5th Jetha, 2077
  The new six languages have been added to the list of 123 languages spoken in
Nepal
 Rana Tharu discovered in Kanchanpur,
 Nar Phu discovered in Manang,
 Chum (Syaar) discovered in Gorkha,
 Nubri (Larke) discovered in Gorkha,
 Poike discovered in Dolpa, Serake discovered in Mustang
 MarekhYakkhaa spoken in Dhankuta and Nawa Sherpa spoken in Bhojpur
have been added to the list of new languages spoken in Nepal in 2076/77.
Languages in  So, Total 131
Nepal  Chairman of Language Commission: Lal Dev Awasthi
 Official languages:
 Province 1: Maithili and Limbu
 Madhesh Pradesh: Maithili, Bhojpuri and Bajjika
 Bagmati Province: Tamang and Newar
 Gandaki Province: Magar, Gurung and Bhojpuri
 Lumbini Province: Tharu and Abadhi
 Kamali Province: Magar
 Sudur Paschim Province: Dotyali and Tharu
  The government has provided first e-passport to 102-year-old
Historian Satya Mohan Joshi on 1 Mangsir, 2078 (November 17,
2021).
E passport and  Nepal on 14th Asar, 2078 (28th June, 2021) launched a digital visa
e visa system to replace its 45-year-old hand-written visa regime.
 Nepalese born Portuguese citizen Tenzing Norbu Lama is the first
to receive such visa.
  COP 26: UK and Scotland (31st October to 12 Nivember 2021)
 Major Agenda: to tackle climate emergency
 Nepal: Sher Bdr Deuba
 Paris Climate Agreement: COP 2015
 Nepal is organizing Sagarmatha Sambad, a global dialogue on
Climate Change
 Nepal to achieve net-zero carbon emission by 2045 AD
Environment
 COP 27 is scheduled to be held in Egypt in 2022
 2021 February 19: U.S. Officially rejoins Paris Climate.
 Paris Agreement: 29 Articles
 First country to ratify: Maldives
 Nepal ratified in 24th October, 2016
  The United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan on
August 30, 2021.
 US President Joe Biden declares the end of war in Afghanistan.
Taliban had given ultimatum to America to leave Afghanistan by
August 31, 2021 but the US army left a day before
 The last soldier to leave Afghanistan is Major General Chris
Donahue, commander of the U.S. Army
US in  Ross Wilson is the last American diplomat to leave Afghanistan,
who served as the acting United States Ambassador to
Afghanistan Afghanistan.
 Taliban declare victory in Afghanistan: Taliban leaders declared on
August 16, 2021
 Last part of takeover by Afghanistan: Panjshir Valley (for the first
time)
  Facebook changed its parent company name to “Meta”
 to move past being a scandal-plagued Social Network to its virtual
reality vision for the future.
 on 28 October that the corporate name of the social media
Meta platform will change to “Meta,” to emphasize its “metaverse”
vision
 Mark Zukerberg
  UNGA endorses proposal to graduate Nepal to middle-income
developing country
Nepal’s
 The UNGA passed the proposal on 21 November, 2021
Graduation to  Currently, there are 46 countries on the LDC list, according to the
middle income United Nation Committee for Development Policy (CDP).

states  Nepal was incorporated in the list of LDCs in 1971 A.D

Index Requirement for upgrade Status of Nepal

Per Capita GNI (in US $) >1230 1027
Human Assets Index >66 75
Economic Vulnerability <32 24.2
Index
  biggest ever leak of offshore data exposes financial secrets of rich
and powerful
 On 3 October 2021, the ICIJ released the Pandora Papers to the
media and general public,
 Consisting of nearly 12 million files filling almost 3 terabytes of
data.
Pandora  The International Consortium of Investigative Jour lists (ICIJ)
Papers published an explosive investigation dubbed the Pandora Papers
highlighting how world leaders, personalities and business
executives hid $11.3 trillion (E9.7 trillion) in more than 29,000
offshore companies in countries or territories with favourable
taxation
 The list contains the name of 16 Nepalese people belonging to
different industrial organizations
  : Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Vice President of
Compact Operations, Fatema Z.. Sumar visits Nepal on : 2021
September 09-12
 The Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a bilateral United
States foreign aid Agency
 Established by the U.S. Congress in January 2004 working to
reduce poverty global poverty through Economic growth
 Its headquarter is situated in Washington, D.C., United States of
America.
MCC  The compact signing was done on September 14, 2017 in
Washington DC between Nepal and MCC. The compact signing
was done by the then Finance Minister of Nepal Mr. Gyanendra
Karki and MCC Acting CEO Mr. Jonathan Nash.
 ➤ The Ministry of Finance representing the Government of Nepal
and the Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC) representing the
United States Government Signed a Program Implementation
Agreement on 29th September, 2019.
  Rome, the capital city of Italy, on 30-31 October 2021
16th G20  The G20 or Group of Twenty is an intergovernmental forum
Summit comprising 19 countries and the European Union.

47th G7 summit  G7: from 11 to 13 June 2021 in Cornwall, England

 G7 countries are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK
and USA. @C GF JIUU
  conducted every four years
 begun from December 5
 The previous 2018 tiger census put the population of adult tigers
at 235.
Tiger Census  93 CNP followed by 87 in Bardiya, 21 in Banke, 18 in Parsa and 16 in
2021 Shuklaphanta.
 2010 Global Conference participated by 13 countries (where tigers
are found) held in St Petersburg, Russia, had pledged to double
the population of tigers by 2022
  Sindhuligadhi War museum
 2078 Shrawan 13

War museum  The names of Bansha Raj. Bir Bhadra, Sri Harsha and Bansha
Gurung who defeated the enemy October 1768 are inscribed in the
museum.
  Global Climate Risk Index 2021: 10th
 Biodiversity: 48th (first Brazil, second Indonesia)
 Rule of Law index 2021: 70th
 Global Hunger Index: 73rd
 Global Food security Index: 79th
 Global Peace Index 2021: 85
 World Happiness Index 2021: 87th
Nepal’s  Doing Business Index: 94th

Ranking in the  Sustainable Development Report 2021: 96th

 Global Gender Gap Index 2021: 106
world  World Press Freedom Index 2021: 106
 Henly Passport Index: 110th
 Global Innovation Indicator 2021: 111th
 The Legatum Prosperity Index 2021: 115
 Corruption Perception Index 2021: 117th
 HDI: 142th (0.602)
 World Economic Freedom Index 2021: 157
  Host:Cameroon
 Most Successful team: Egypt
 Final: Senegal (4) Vs Egypt(2) in Penalties
African nation  9 jan to 6 february
of cup  Best player: Sadio Mane (Liverpool/ Senegal)
 Best Goalkeeper: Edouard Mendy (Chelsea/ Senegal)
 Top Scorer: Vincent Aboubarker (Cameroon)
Russia attacked Ukraine on 24 feb 2022
Nirmal purja climbed ketu mt.on feb 2021 has become an ambassador of
global goodwill nepal tourism.