Kathmandu, March 16 – The death of the world’s smallest man will be mourned by the world’s smallest boy, who is expected to assume the title seven months later.
The death of China-born He Pingping, who died after chest pains in Rome Saturday, is being mourned in Pokhara city in central Nepal, which is also home [...]
Kathmandu, March 16 – A 55-year-old Pakistani woman has been arrested at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu with fake Indian currency worth Rs.3 million, police said.
Mariam Wali Mohammad, apparently travelling alone from Karachi, was nabbed after she arrived at the airport on a Pakistan International Airlines flight and was seeking to emerge from it [...]
Kathmandu, March 15 – One of the many thousands of students appearing for Nepal’s tough school-leaving examinations is Chanira Bajracharya, who is also worshipped in Kathmandu’s neighbouring Lalitpur city as Kumari, the ‘Living Goddess’ of Nepal.
The pre-pubescent girl will appear for the School Leaving Examination from the Bhaswara Higher Secondary School, the Kantipur daily reported.
Chanira [...]
Kathmandu, March 15 – Gold becomes dearer in Nepal from this week to prevent rampant smuggling to India after the Indian government hiked duty on the yellow metal.
Heeding the urging by gold dealers, Nepal’s cabinet Sunday decided to increase customs duty on gold by NRS 340 per 10 gm. The metal will now cost NRS [...]
Kathmandu, March 14 – Harihar Acharya, a disciple of Indian classical dance doyenne Sitara Devi, is charting a new course for Nepal’s film industry by producing the country’s first adult movie.
Acharya, 47, who trained in Kathak with Sitara Devi in Jaipur followed by an eight-year stint at the Delhi Kathak Kendra, is set to launch [...]
Kathmandu, March 13 – Nepal Army chief General Chhatraman Singh Gurung has refused to hire fighters from the opposition Maoist party’s guerrilla army en masse.
Gurung, who became army chief last year after his predecessor, General Rookmangud Katawal, caused the collapse of the Maoist government, told visiting UN Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs B. Lynn Pascoe [...]
Kathmandu, March 13 – With less than 80 days left for the promulgation of a new constitution in Nepal, the nascent republic went on the boil once again Saturday with its Tharu community, believed to be the descendants of the Buddha, going on the warpath.
Eight Tharu organisations have called a shutdown of nearly one-third of [...]
Kathmandu, March 11 – Four months after Nepal came under fire from animal lovers worldwide for holding the biggest animal sacrifice fair in its southern plains, hundreds of people are now flocking to the west to participate in a festival to drink yak’s blood.
Men, women and even children have been heading for Myagdi, a remote [...]
Kathmandu, March 11 – An envoy sent by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to assess Nepal’s fraying peace process has asked the coalition government to rehabilitate the guerrilla army of the Maoists and democratise the national army, warning that Nepal still had two armies though the communist uprising had ended four years ago.
‘The question of [...]
Kathmandu, March 10 – After a series of attacks on high profile people, including the murder of a media magnate and an attempt on Indian managing director of a medical college, Nepal’s Minister of State for Home Affairs Rizvan Ansari Wednesday quit his post.
Ansari’s resignation is thought to have been prompted by internal quarrels in [...]
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