ICYMI: Here are our top stories from Tuesday, August 27
Here are some of the top stories from The Kathmandu Post (August 27, 2019). Coca-Cola recently launched its jigri campaign to promote 250ml bottles in Nepal. Screengrab via YouTube
Here are some of the top stories from The Kathmandu Post (August 27, 2019).
Coca-Cola wanted consumers to be ‘best friend’ with its new product. Not everyone is amused
Earlier this month, Nepali instagram was littered with videos, where nearly a dozen celebrities and influencers made a big fuss about not being able to find their best friend, colloquially referring to them as “jigri”. A week later, the big reveal came in the form of a tiny Coke bottle. The celebrities, delighted to be reunited with their jigri, guzzle down the 250ml beverage, smile at the camera and ask others to join the guy with the new Coke’s “refreshing taste.”
The beverage giant was able to create the intended buzz about its new offering by mobilising all the celebrity power Nepali Instagram had to offer. But in the two weeks since the new bottle launch, criticism against Coca-Cola Nepal and the celebrities endorsing it has also been accumulating on social media.
Tiger numbers are growing and now they are frequently coming out of Bardiya National Park
Ramkali Shahi and her two friends were attacked by a tiger from Bardiya National Park on Thursday. The trio had gone to a forest adjoining the park to collect fodder for their cattle. Shahi, a resident of Geruwa Municipality-4, was mauled to death by the tiger, while two of her friends managed to flee the scene.
Three days after the incident, another tiger from the same park strayed into a human settlement in Dumreni of Thakurbaba Municipality. The male Royal Bengal tiger fatally attacked Pahariya Tharu, 70, who was feeding pigs in his backyard.
The recent tiger attacks have left people living around Bardiya National Park scared.
The cosplay subculture has arrived and it’s here to stay
In September 2016, Rohit Shrestha dressed himself as Ryuk—a character from the famous manga series Death Note—for the Com Con Nepal cosplay competition. In order to play the character, revered by manga fans like him, he searched for the costume online, but he couldn’t find one—not even anything that closely resembled what he was looking for.
He then bought clothing fabric from a local shop and stitched the costume himself, following tutorials on YouTube. By the time the costume was completed, with all the necessary props, he had spent Rs30,000.
Nepal and India are unlikely to meet the 2022 deadline for completing bilateral boundary work
Nepal and India are set to miss the 2022 deadline for completing the bilateral boundary work. The deadline was set by the highest-level joint technical body entrusted with the construction, restoration and repairing of boundary pillars, including the clearance of ‘no-man’s land’.
Initially, a meeting of Survey Officials’ Committee in Dehradun in December 2015 had agreed to complete the remaining works, except in Susta and Kalapani, the most contentious border points between Nepal and India, within four years—by 2019. The fourth meeting of the Nepal-India Boundary Working Group, held again in Dehradun two years later, had decided to complete the work by 2022, citing a lack of adequate progress in the fieldwork.
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