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Cooker Coffee, the famous caffeinated drink that is believed to have its origins at Traffic Chowk, Butwal, is now available at Aloknagar, Minbhawan in Kathmandu. Cooker Coffee by Daddy’s Kitchen, located on the corridor road towards Lalitpur from behind VS Niketan School (please use Google map), serves Traffic Chowk’s famous cooker coffee and a host of other delicacies.

Cooker Coffee has both indoor and outdoor seating and as the road its in is relatively new and less busy, it adds to the calmness of the establishment. The moderately priced multi-cuisine restaurant is open from breakfast till dinner and serves Kathmandu’s favorite fast foods with some of its own additions too. But the main attraction, without a doubt, is cooker coffee. You will love watching it being made and drinking it. 

Cooker Coffee, Aloknagar, Minbhawan
Chef’s special:
Chicken Samosa
Chicken Quesadilla
Daddy’s Delight Burger
Opening: 7am to 9pm 
Cards: Accepted
Reservations: 9823087825

Ten teens who participated in a month-long filmmaking workshop organized by Kipalaya Productions under Plan International's 'Girls Get Equal' campaign have produced a film each in two weeks after a month of learning the craft. On September 10, the films were screened by the Film Development Board.

The training, titled 'Women Make Films', was supported by Oscar International College and the Film Development Board. The average length of each film was five minutes. The one-month workshop, held from July 19 to August 19, aimed to break stereotypes about women and increase their participation in filmmaking. 

Ashruti Tripathi, Pradhanya Yonjan, Angela Chaudhary, Pushpa Joshi, Purnima Maharjan, Ambika Bhandari, Asmita Lawati, Shreesha Kunwar, Mira Khadka, and Jyoti Belbase participated in the workshop. Trainer Rajan Kathet said the workshop has also helped the teens develop social skills. 

Located at Lazimpat, the Salon de Kathmandu Café & Bistro is more like a private home with a beautiful garden than a restaurant. Its owners call it “an oasis in the busy city” and we trust them. Located in a quiet neighborhood near the Radisson Hotel, Salon de Kathmandu is an elegant establishment that not only serves you good food but also offers you the best ambience.

The restaurant is open for breakfast to dinner and serves mostly continental cuisine in its tastefully designed indoors and lush outdoor garden. Salon de Kathmandu also has its own parking, which is a big plus since public parking spaces are so rare in Kathmandu. And although the pricing might seem on the steeper side, the food, ambience and service make it worth it.

Salon de Kathmandu, Lazimpat
Meal for 2: Rs 2500
Opening: 8:30 am to 10 pm
Cards: Accepted
Chef’s specials: Fried Chicken Teriyaki Rice Bowl
Korean BBQ Pork Steak
Fried Snack Platter
01-4411820  

Online payment service provider company Khalti Digital Wallet, in partnership with Japanese Language Proficiency Test (JLPT), has introduced a new service to make JLPT online application form fee payment easy through the Khalti app. This service was implemented after an agreement was signed between the President of JALTAN Purna Kaji Prajapati and Khalti’s Business Development Manager Jonaam Bhurtel.

The JLPT exam consists of five levels. They are; N1, N2, N3, N4, and N5. Applicants can choose the appropriate level among all levels. To pay its fee online with Khalti, one has to visit JLPT’s official website and select Khalti as a payment option. 

Bottlers Nepal (Terai) Limited (BNTL)—the authorized bottling partner of The Coca Cola Company for Nepal—has been awarded the first position for the Best Presented Annual Report (BPA) 2020 under General Sector (Others) category in an event organized by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nepal (ICAN). The award was presented to BNTL for its outstanding presentation, detailed disclosure, and transparency of information presented in the annual accounts for the fiscal year 2076/77.

Bottlers Nepal Ltd (BNL) had also been recognized as the First Runner-up by ICAN in the same category last year. Corporate governance and compliance are something that BNTL has inherited as its DNA from its internal process and proven system,  the company says. “BNTL believes that it is critical to building trust with all the stakeholders including customers, suppliers, and shareholders. The BPA Award for 2020 is a testimony of the corporate governance and compliance practices followed each year by both BNL and BNTL”.

The award was presented by Madan Sharma, President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nepal (ICAN) to Rajeev Tandon, country finance manager, and Ashok Mandal, finance controller of Bottlers Nepal Limited at a function held by ICAN.

Teletalk Pvt Ltd, the authorized distributor of Nokia phones in Nepal, has opened a Nokia phone care center at Tamrakar Complex, New Road, Kathmandu. Increasing demand for Nokia products from customers has motivated the company to open this care center to provide one-stop technical support, says Teletalk. “The care center will provide all the services related to repair and maintenance of Nokia smartphones. The service center is backed by well-trained professional technicians which also assures availability of genuine spare parts with exceptional customer service,” Pratik Jalan, director of Teletalk says.

Teletalk also recently launched the Nokia G10, Nokia G20, and Nokia C20 smartphones in Nepal. Feature phones such as the Nokia 5310, Nokia 3310, Nokia 150 and others which are reasonably priced are also easily available for purchase throughout the country.

Popular actors Saugat Malla, Anmol KC, and Pushpa Khadka are gearing up for their roles in the upcoming action thriller ‘X9’.  This is the first time the three stars will be seen on screen together and the team was seen preparing for their roles in the gym together.

All three actors are training for their roles in the Golden Hills Pictures’ film that is being marketed as “Nepal’s biggest action-thriller”. The directorial team has rented a gym hall in Kathmandu for the actors to train for at least three hours a day. A personal trainer for the trio has also been hired. According to director Mukunda Bhatta, training will continue for four months—and will be extended if expected results are not seen.

Triveni Group’s Ghorahi Cement headed by Parushottam Lal Shanghai is yet to pay Rs 1 billion in electricity bills, according to the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA).

Ram Chandra Shanghai, the promotor of Ghorahi Cement, a company under the Triveni Group, is currently the Associate Vice President of the Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

Triveni Spinning Mills, another large-scale factory operated by the Shangai’s Triveni Group, is also yet to pay Rs 650 million to NEA.

Ram Chandra Shanghai has been trying to evade a total of Rs 1.65 billion outstanding for both these companies. Ghorahi Cement’s chairman Purushottam Lal Shanghai, Ram Chandra’s eldest brother, allegedly decided not to pay the Rs 1 billion following advice from his brother Ram Chandra.

After Sahil Agrawal's Jagdamba Steels, Triveni Group has the most arrears outstanding with the NEA. However, after gaining power by becoming the vice president of FNCCI, Ram Chandra is using his reach to avoid clearing the arrears.

Earlier, Ghorahi Cement was also found to have stolen limestone from a mine owned by Rolpa Cement Industry. It was later revealed that Ghorahi—which had been producing and selling cement under the names Sagarmatha and Sagarmatha Gold—had taken 9,000 tipper loads of limestone from the said quarry. Shanghai had registered a mine called Rolpa Limestone Industry to excavate limestone from Rolpa Cement’s mine.