Kathmandu, Oct 21 – Nepal’s diplomatic scale continues to tilt towards Beijing with an unending procession of high-level visits to the Middle Kingdom despite ruling parties and the opposition Maoists maintaining they want to keep equidistance between their giant neighbours, China and India. While Nepal’s peace process remains in the doldrums with the former Maoist [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 21 – Three days after a British tourist fell into a Nepal lake from his boat, police Thursday managed to find his body. Graeme Budge, who had flown to Nepal with his friend William Duncan Monro from Scotland via New Delhi, was declared dead by doctors at the Gandaki regional hospital in Nepal’s [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 21 – Despite Nepal’s ruling parties and the opposition Maoists saying they want to keep equidistance from their two neighbours, India and China, the China scale has begun to grow heavier once again with several high-level official as well as personal visits to the communist republic. While Nepal’s peace process remains in the [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 20 – Dismissing growing speculation since last year that Britain may axe its band of Gurkha soldiers from Nepal due to a funds crunch, the British government said Wednesday that it had no such plans. The British Embassy in Kathmandu, while making public the new British national security strategy and a strategic defence [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 19 – In 1957, when Ms H.S. Oliphant, a retired English headmistress, decided to buy the estate of a former nawab in northern India and start a boarding school for girls, she had no idea of the far-reaching wonders it would produce one day. Next month, an alumna of the Welham Girls’ School [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 19 – A 48-year-old British tourist is feared to have drowned in a Nepal lake after workers failed to find him even a day after his boat accident. The tourist police in Pokhara, a sunny city west of Kathmandu and a favourite tourist destination, told IANS that divers were still searching the waters [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 18 – As its biggest religious festival Dashain, similar to Dussehra in India, ends Monday and Nepal slowly returns to everyday life, crises threaten the nation whose coffers are drying up and time is running out. The finance ministry dropped a bombshell Monday, with top officials saying that the caretaker government faces a [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 15 – A top UN envoy who visited Nepal earlier this month to assess the republic’s halted peace process has expressed doubts if the political parties can decide the fate of the Maoist guerrilla army by mid-January, after which the UN agency supervising it will exit Nepal. B. Lynn Pascoe, UN undersecretary-general for [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 14 – Organisers had a tough time controlling the crowds and photographers at a hotel in Nepal’s picturesque Pokhara city Thursday as local lad and now, a global celebrity, Khagendra Thapa Magar celebrated his 18th birthday and attained adulthood by winning the title for the shortest man in the world. The boy from [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 13 – With just seven months left for the new constitution deadline to expire, Nepal’s opposition Maoist party Wednesday backtracked on its pledge, refusing to let go of its guerrilla army unless it had its say in the formation of a new government. Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, who had pulled out [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 13 – Twenty years ago, Ganesh Jha of India’s Ayodhya town was known as Ram. The 40-year-old is one of the major actors at the Saket Adarsha Ramlila Mandal (SARM) in India’s Uttar Pradesh state that, like hundreds of other mandals or drama groups in India, tours the subcontinent and even abroad during [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 12 – Less than two months after being hit by a plane crash in Nepal that killed all 14 people on board and destroyed the aircraft, National Insurance Company Ltd (NIC), the insurer, is ready to bounce back with a silver lining in the loss. NIC, India’s oldest insurance company, is now seeking [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 12 – The guerrilla army of Nepal’s opposition Maoist party Tuesday denied a report in the Indian media that had claimed that ‘hundreds’ of Indian Maoists were being trained in Nepal. Nanda Kishore Pun, who led the Maoists’ ‘People’s Liberation Army’ (PLA) into a 10-year war against the government before his party signed [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 10 – While Nepal celebrated its biggest religious festival Dashain – symbolising the victory of good over evil – the nation ironically remained gripped by instability and pessimism as the warring political parties failed to elect a new prime minister even after the 12th round of voting Sunday. A 13th round was announced [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 9 – Following the advice that when in Nepal, do as Nepalis do has landed Nordic telecom giant TeliaSonera in the midst of a controversy in the country. At a time animal rights activists have begun a campaign asking for an end to animal sacrifices during Dashain, Nepal’s biggest Hindu festival which sees [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 9 – As he started his dynasty’s ritual worship of Dashain, Nepal’s biggest Hindu festival, the country’s deposed king Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah is still smarting under a fierce sense of injustice, two years after parliament formally declared an end to his 240-year-old monarchy. Royalists, who continue to demand the restoration of monarchy, [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 8 – Two years after Nepal’s parliament officially declared the world’s only Hindu kingdom a secular republic, Nepal’s former princesses will Friday embrace their new status as law-abiding commoners with the inauguration of a charitable trust pledged to social service. Nepal’s last king Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah is inaugurating the Himani Trust, a [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 7 – With the Nepali public getting increasingly frustrated with its politicians, Nepal’s parliament once again failed to elect the country’s new prime minister for the 11th time Thursday – after 100 days of political stalemate. The 12th round of prime ministerial election will be held Sunday. Amidst calls by angry members of [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 7 – Amidst calls by frustrated members of the public to imprison all lawmakers and force them to pay compensation for playing with the nation’s future, Nepal’s parliament held an unprecedented 11th round of prime ministerial election Thursday but failed, just like the earlier rounds. The 12th round of election will now be [...]
Kathmandu, Oct 7 – Nepal’s caretaker Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Thursday wielded the broom in a public area to kick off the Nepal Tourism Year 2011 campaign following Hollywood icon Richard Gere’s tips that he looked for hygiene and security during his trips to Nepal. The campaign, aiming to bring 1 million tourists — [...]
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