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Kathmandu InfoKathmandu is said to have been founded by king Gun Kamdev in AD 723. According to legend, the area was a lake in the past, but the Hindu god Manjushri cut open a hill to the south and allowed the water to flow out, making the region habitable. The origin of the present name is unclear, but one of the more likely theories is that it was named after Kastha-Mandap ("temple of wood" in Sanskrit), after a pagoda carved from the single tree on the order of King Lakshmi Narasingha Malla in 1596.Present The old city is noted for its many Buddhist and Hindu temples and palaces, most dating from the 17th century. Many of these landmarks have been damaged by earthquakes and pollution. Seven UNESCO World Heritage Sites are in this valley. Stone carving in Kathmandu streetKathmandu has been popular with western tourists since the 1960s when it became a key stop on the hippie trail. ArticlesCapital has dirtiest air? WB denies saying so BY KIRAN CHAPAGAIN KATHMANDU, Dec 30 - The World Bank Nepal Office today refuted a recent news report putting Kathmandu on the top of the 17 Asian cities with the dirtiest air, saying that the World Bank did not come up with any report like that, and that the fact was "misrepresented" by the press. A senior World Bank official here today said that the Associated Press (AP) report datelined December 18 and filed from Manila, the Philippines, which was carried by several international media, "misrepresented" what was said and presented at a workshop on Better Air Quality. "The press picked up the pollution data presented at the workshop out of context and made its own judgement," Asif Faiz, World Bank’s Acting Country Representative to Nepal, told The Kathmandu Post."The AP report misrepresented what the presenters at the conference, including what Christopher Hoban, Acting Country Director of the World Bank in the Philippines, said during the conference," he said. Faiz further said that the organiser of the workshop, the Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities (CAI-Asia), an Asian Development Bank-supported project has informed the Bank that it will soon write to concerned media organizations for correction of the misinterpreted news report. Aside from the American news agency, AP, the Asian Wall Street Journal also ran the report, which created a furore in Nepal. Kathmandu’s Mayor Keshav Sthapit last week sought explanations and publicly announced that he would sue the Bank.The Bank has also refuted the media using it as the source of information for the report saying, "The media reference to a World Bank report as the source of information is not correct." The pollution levels of PM (fine dust particles) of Asian cities were presented in graphs at the said workshop to show that mega cities in developing countries had their PM levels several times higher than the WHO guidelines, which was not meant to make any comparison, Faiz clarified. "The benchmarking report on Air Quality Management CIA-Asia does not have the intention to rank cities according to pollution levels," reads an email sent to Faiz by Cornie Huizenga, an official with CAI-Asia at the ADB headquarters in Manila. "We do not believe that it is desirable and feasible to do so." 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 70 71 | | 73 | 74 | 75 | 76 | 77 | 78 | 79 | 80 | 82 | 83 | 84 | 85 | 86 | 87 | 88 | 89 | 90 91 | 92 | 93 | 94 | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 |