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After a successful consolidation of its territory, despite a humiliating defeat to Chinese Qing Dynasty after a failed invasion of Tibet in the 1790s, Nepal became threatened in the early-nineteenth century by British imperialism and the East India Company. Following the Anglo-Nepalese War (1814–1816), the kingdom retained its independence in the Sugauli Treaty in exchange for territorial concessions equating to a third of the territory then under Nepalese rule, sometimes known as "Greater Nepal". Political instability following the war resulted in the political ascendancy of the Rana dynasty, who beginning with Jung Bahadur became the hereditary Prime Ministers of Nepal from 1843 to 1951, reducing the role of the Shah monarch to that of a figurehead. Rana rule was marked by tyranny, debauchery, economic exploitation and religious persecution.
The mid-twentieth century began an era of moves towards the democratisation of Nepal. The newly independent India would play an important role in supporting King Tribhuhvan, whom the Rana leader Mohan Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana in 1950 had attempted to depose and replace with his infant grandson King Gyanendra, and in supporting a new government consisting largely of the Nepali Congress, effectively ending the rule of the Rana dynasty.
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As a result of the massacre, King Gyanendra returned to the throne. His imposition of direct rule in 2005 provoked a protest movement unifying the Maoist insurgency and pro-democracy activists. He was eventually forced to restore Nepal's House of Representatives, which in 2007 adopted an interim constitution greatly restricting the powers of the Nepalese monarchy. Following an election held the next year, the Nepalese Constituent Assembly formally abolished the kingdom in its first session on 28 May 2008, declaring in its place the establishment of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.
Until the abolition of the monarchy, Nepal was the world's only country to have Hinduism as its state religion; the country is now formally a secular state.
The Poverty Alleviation Fund (PAF) too is focusing on the sector. The fund is holding training camps at several places in the district. According to Bal Bahadur Hamal, facilitator of the fund, the training showcases farming technology and skills. “There were just three farmers who used to cultivate vegetables earlier. But now at least 25 farmers are involved in the sector,” he said.
Look again. The encircled area is where the 'woman' stands, according to UFO Sightings Daily.
In a post titled 'A strange woman walking on Mars? News intriguing images of Mars are discussed on the Internet', the writer elaborates on the vision, writing, "It seems there is a woman standing on top of a cliff, with long hair, wearing a dress, watching the Jeep probe. Just above, it appears an impression that leads to something similar to a manhole with a lever at the top. And next, it is something that looks like a small building or a tent. Logo on your left, there seems to be a painting on the wall (a greeting?)." These points are illustrated with zoomed and highlighted images the apparent shapes.
The 'Woman on Mars' images were to quick to go viral with some speculating about its authenticity while most joked about the unlikeliness of signs of life on Mars, much less humanoid signs.
While the internet debates (and jokes) about the woman who made it to Mars, the whole idea seems to be more like a Rorschach test — 'What can you see in the image'? Some may see a rock protrusion, others a shadow and maybe some will see the apparition. So, what do you see?
