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DOM DELUISE

Hollywood lost their favorite comedy actor Dom Deluise. Dom Deluise was dead on 4th May at Santa Monica hospital in Los Angeles after a long illness. He was an actor, comedian, chef, film director, television producer and author of many books. He appeared in many famous films, TV shows and Broadway plays and also gave voices for numerous cartoon characters. “The Twelve Chairs,” “Blazing Saddles” and “The Cannonball Run,” are his famous films.

BIOGRAPHY

Comedy actor Dom Deluise was born in Brooklyn, New York as the son of Italian parents Vincenza “Jennie” and John DeLuis. He gained his education from Manhattan’s High School of Performing Arts and from University in Medford, Massachusetts. He is married to actor Carol Arthur and they had 3 sons. Deluise was started his acting career on television in the early 1960s. In 1964, he was a regular performer in the television show “The Entertainers”. He acted with famous American actor Burt Reynolds in many films including “The Cannonball Run” and “Cannonball Run II”, “Smokey and the Bandit II”, “The End” etc. He was also a host of the television show “Candid Camera”. He was a regular actor in famous director Mel Brooks’ movies including “The Twelve Chairs”, “Blazing Saddles”, “Silent Movie”, ” Robin Hood: Men in Tights” etc. He give his pleasant voice for animated features and series including “The Secret of NIMH”, “An American Tail”, “All Dogs Go to Heaven” and other cartoons and related sequels, series, and video games. He is also a singer and sang opera in “Die Fledermaus”with the New York Metropolitan. He is also loved to cook and did many cooking demonstrations on television and wrote several cookbooks including, “Eat This … It’ll Make You Feel Better!” and “Eat This Too!: It’ll Also Make You Feel Better”. He is also the author of children’s books including “Charlie the Caterpillar”, “Goldilocks”, “There’s No Place Like Home” etc. This comedian will always alive in the hearts of all comedy lovers with his pleasant nature.

NEPAL CRISIS

Now the Nepal, a country in South Asia faces a critical situation, because their Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda was resigned due to the conflict between the Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav in the case of army chief General Katawal. Earlier Prachanda removed army chief General Katawal from his post. But the President asked Katuwal to continue on the post. The battle between Prime minister and army chief started earlier in the case of introduction of of former Maoist rebels into the army. On 3rd May, the ruling party of Nepal removed army chief from his post after blaming him of resisting the government’s orders. But the president told the army chief to remain in the post. President called the dismissal order as “unconstitutional and undemocratic”. Prime minister Prachanda opposed President’s decision and he resigned on 4th May. In his resignation speech, Prachanda blamed the political parties which included the opposition as well as his own allies as well as “foreign powers” for the lack of progress made by his eight-month government. Prachanda told that the move by the president is an attack on democracy and the peace process. He also accused the neighboring country India of being behind President’s “unconstitutional” move to block the sacking. Because President belongs to pro-India opposition party Nepali Congress,  but the Indian Government rejected it by saying that India never supported any unconstitutional move in Nepal.

ABOUT NEPAL

Nepal is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is also youngest republic in the world. Kathmandu is the capital of this country and China and India are neighboring countries. Nepal has rich geography, culture, and religions. It is popular for mountaineering, containing some of the highest and most challenging mountains in the world including Mount Everest. Most of the people are Hindus. Nepali, Maithili , Bhojpuri , Tharu , Tamang , Newari/Nepal Bhasa , Magar , Awadhi , Rai , Limbu , and Bajjika are the main languages of Nepal. The Newar community is particularly rich in cultural diversity. They celebrate many festivals and well known for their music and dance. Famous meal of Nepal is “dal-bhat-tarkari”. Since then, the country had been ruled by a dynasty of kings. However, a decade-long People’s Revolution by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) established a federal democratic republic in May 28, 2008 and  Dr. Ram Baran Yadav was elected as the first President of Nepal.