Kathmandu, 11 April 2018 Shrinkhala Khatiwada has been crowned ‘Miss Nepal World 2018’. She was crowned with the title at the beauty pageant grand finale held in Kathmandu on Wednesday, April 11. Along with Miss Nepal World, Khatiwada also won two more titles — Miss Beautiful Hair and Yamaha Miss Fascino. She will represent Nepal in the upcoming Miss World Pageant. Meanwhile, Ronali Amatya, Priya Sigdel, and Manita Devkota won the titles of Miss Nepal International, Miss Nepal Earth, and Miss Nepal Universe respectively The Hidden Treasure made the event a grand success! All four winners won a cash prize of Rs 1,00,000 each. Meanwhile, Khatiwada also received Yamaha Fascino Scooter, Colors S11 phone, and tickets from Turkish and Thai Airlines. The winners will represent Nepal in various pageants around the world — Sigdel will participate in Miss Earth in the Philippines, and Devkota will compete for Miss Universe in China. Other title winners included — Sayara Lama (Miss Friendship), Mahima Singh (Miss Photogenic), Laxmi Poudel (Miss Punctual), Ashma Dhungana (Miss Intellectual), Megha Shrestha (Miss Athlete), Aastha Saakha (Miss Confident) and Sandhya Adhikari (Miss Popular Choice). A total of 25 ladies from across the nation were selected for the final race in the competition.
We are really excited to announce that Sparrow SMS has completed amazing eight years of its journey today. We feel it was just yesterday when we introduced Sparrow SMS in the market. It was initiated by Janaki Technology in 2010, with the tagline ‘Power of Text’ with an aim to provide easy access to information to every individual of Nepal. When we started, we were quite skeptic if people would even use bulk SMS technology. Back then people did not have access to internet and information. But, mobile penetration did the magic, which turned our dream of providing important information via SMS into reality. Coming this far, Sparrow SMS has grown as the market leader in mobile messaging, and now powers mobile campaigns for some of the most well-known brands in Nepal. In 2014, Sparrow SMS was honored with mBillionth Award South Asia for the service, Labor Permit, that provided migrant workers in Nepal with information about their status of labor permit and actual details of processing cost, thus stopping brokers who used to give fake information on recruitment leading to trafficking. In the devastating earthquake of 2015, Sparrow SMS team came up with an online app portal through which people could offer and ask for help via SMS, which could be mapped in Google Map. With this mapped informations, volunteers could dispatch relief distribution programs accordingly. Elated by such amazing reception, Amit Agrawal, CEO of Sparrow SMS shared, “We wanted to bring easy access to information to everyone in Nepal, be it a remote mountain or a small village in Terai. What keeps us alive is stories from millions of users who use Sparrow SMS. This adds meaning to our everyday work and our purpose of making a difference and impacting lives of people in Nepal keeps us motivated to work even harder in days to come. Today as we celebrate our 8th Anniversary, we are obliged to all our users, friends & family, supporters and well-wishers and everyone who believed in us and have been by our side in our journey – without your involvement and support, we would not have reached where we are today.” Sparrow SMS provides daily crucial information and alerts to public via SMS in Nepal. Some of our crucial services are National Exam Results, Safe Migration Labor Permit Status, Election Updates, Human trafficking Vulnerability SMS reporting, SMS Based Disaster Response Management System, Blood donors search, SMS Based Livestock Management & Reporting System, Health Report, Agro-Market Info, etc. Sparrow SMS currently receives more than 20 million Inbound SMS per year. We are extremely overwhelmed by such an amazing support from users in both rural and urban areas. Coincidentally, March 20 is also World Sparrow Day, World Happiness Day and today we also officially celebrate the start of Spring, a season of new beginnings. We wish you all World Sparrow Day, World Happiness Day, and a happy and fun Spring! Expecting a similar type of love and support in the days to come!
To vote for your favorite contestant: Type MN <space> Contestant Number and send it to 33001 The twenty-third edition of Nepal’s most prestigious beauty pageant organized by The Hidden Treasure (THT) – Miss Nepal 2018, has opened up its applications for enthusiastic young Nepali women. The audition had started for Miss Nepal 2018 in Kathmandu on February 19, 2018. As per THT, the pageant experience is a lifetime opportunity for the young enthusiastic women and to become the role models for the upcoming youths. Each SMS vote is important! Through weekly lucky draw, one voter will get the invitation for the Grand Finale. The talent round is on Chaitra 13, 2074 (March 27, 2018). Twenty-five contestants has been selected for the final round and will participate in seven weeks of comprehensive training from specialists such as choreographer Rachana Gurung Sharma and photographer Raj Bhai Suwal, and among others. Four women from all over the country will be nominated from the grand finale to represent the country at international pageants such as Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss Earth, and Miss International. The grand finale is scheduled for April 11, 2018, at Hotel De Annapurna, in Kathmandu. To vote for your favorite contestant: Type MN <space> Contestant Number and send it to 33001
To vote for your favorite CEO, Type CEO <space> CEO Code and SMS it to 33001 For more visit: https://nepalceosummit.com/ceopopularchoice/ Business Plus Television and CEO Club Nepal in collaboration and association with Government of Nepal, Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Commerce and Industry, FNCCI, CNI, NCC and MAN proudly presents Nepal CEO Summit and Award – 2018, going to be held on 14th March, 2018 at Hotel Soaltee, Kathmandu – Nepal. Sparrow SMS is glad to be the Official SMS Partner for the CEO Summit and Award – 2018. The event is an acknowledgement and appreciation of the leaders who introduce innovation and lead the change. CEOs, GMs, MDs, Chairpersons and personalities with executive roles in the businesses are the nominees for the awards. The following are the names of nominee with their CEO Code for the Category “Popular CEO of the Year – Public Choice” Name of Nominee, Designation & Company Name CEO CODE Ajay Sumargi, ChairmanMuktishree Group of Companies 1 Anil Shah, Deputy CEO Nabil Bank 2 Anuj Agrawal, MD Vishal Group 3 Binod Chaudhary, Chairman CG Group 4 Biswas Dhakal, CEO F1 Soft 5 Chandra Dhakal, Chairman IME group 6 Gagan Pradhan, Owner Himalyan Java 7 Kamini Rajbhandari, MD Nepal Telecom 8 Kulman Ghishing, MD Nepal Electricity Authority 9 Min Bahadur Gurung, Chairman Bhatbhateni Supermarket 10 Padma Jyoti, Chairman Jyoti Group of Companies 11 Pradeep Kumar Shrestha, MD Panchkanya Group 12 Rajendra Khetan, Chairman Khetan Group 13 Shekhar Golcha, Executive director Golcha Organization 14 Sugat Ratna Kanshakar, CEO Nepal Airlines 15 Upendra Mahato, Chairman Medicity Hospital 16 Nepal CEO Summit and Award-2018 is a Hi-Level event of business leaders and professionals, a single largest event in Nepal for businesspersons and professionals of South Asia to acknowledge, honor and celebrate the achievement and contribution they have made for the nation and industries. The aim of the event is to provide a platform to the South Asia’s top Business Visionaries, Industrialists, Business Icons, CEOs, Business Managers and Investors to discourse, evaluate and reflect on bringing up all national, regional and global business scenarios, achievements and dream together for a nobler future. This historic international business event is 1st edition of its series. The Summit is carefully designed to support business executives on their ongoing journey of business excellence as renowned business leaders, industry giants and entrepreneurs. We wish the Organizers all the best for the event and all the nominees too! To vote for your favorite CEO, Type CEO <space> CEO Code and SMS it to 33001 For more visit: https://nepalceosummit.com/ceopopularchoice/