Kathmandu, Nepal News

Kathmandu: Six years after he was arrested in Nepal for the murder of an American tourist during the hippie era of the 70s and slammed with life imprisonment, the country's most talked-about prisoner Charles Sobhraj and his fairytale love story with a young Nepali woman 44 years his junior is now going to inspire a film by a Nepali director.

Decades of deforestation had taken their toll, stripping away the topsoil, affecting vital underground water sources and threatening to bring disaster to a community entirely dependent on farming for its livelihood.

The spectacular Himalayan nation was the second new destination in under a week for the airline, after it commenced flights to Bahrain on Sunday.

Nepalese Army Staff Chief General Chhatra Man Singh Gurung, left, shakes hands with Indian Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor in New Delhi yesterday India and Nepal sought to give fresh impetus to their bilateral military ties as Nepalese Army chief General Chhatra Man Singh Gurung yesterday received the honorary rank of General of the Indian Army, ...

Copenhagen, Dec 14 Around 1.3 billion people in India, the rest of South Asia and China are at imminent risk of water shortage due to climate change, according to the UN.

The Nepali government must ensure that an army major accused of torturing a 15-year-old Nepalese girl, to death, is arrested immediately and transferred to a civilian court for trial, Amnesty International said on Monday.

Better known as the 'Monkey Temple', Swayambhunath attracts swarms of tourists, traders and the infamous holy monkeys that clamber over shrines, swing on multi-coloured prayer flags and scale the mammoth staircase.

The Nepal Army did not hand over army Major Niranjan Basnet, one of the accused in the murder of Maina Sunuwar, to Kavre Distric Police/Court today as promised.

Military police in Nepal have arrested an army major for the murder of a girl of 15 during the Maoist insurgency in what may prove to be a landmark case.

KATHMANDU: The Nepal Government has permitted Kingfisher Airlines to start air service between Nepal and India.

Kathmandu Maoists protesters forced virtual shutdown of the Pepsi bottling plant owned by India's Ravi Jaipuria Group, demanding pay hike, in an re-emergence of threats to Indian owned industry.

The U.S. restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken entered the Nepalese market last Wednesday, along with Pizza Hut.

Tika Bista, a journalist from Rukum, receives treatment at the Kathmandu Model Hospital Thursday, Dec 10 09.

Tajikistan News.Net Wednesday 9th December, 2009 New Delhi, Dec 9 : The Asian Centre for Human Rights , a Delhi based regional human rights organization on Wednesday expressed deep concern over India's decision to resume military supply and training to the Nepal Army following the Joint secretary level talks in Kathmandu from December 4. India cut ...

Attacks on a woman journalist and a TV news crew in two separate incidents within five days have again brought into focus the threat posed to journalists in Nepal.

In the early 19th century, Rana Prime Minister Juddha Shumsher built a road in central Kathmandu and named it the New Road.

Journalist Tika Bista, who was thrashed to unconsciousness by an unidentified persons in Rukum yesterday, has been airlifted to Kathmandu for treatment, Wednesday.

Jet Airways, India's prestigious international airlines, has commenced Mumbai-Kathmandu-Mumbai flights from Wednesday.

United Arab Emirates: 31 minutes ago Etihad Airways has announced it will increase its Abu Dhabi-Kathmandu services from four to seven flights per week from January 2010.

NEPAL'S opposition Maoists on Sunday called a nationwide general strike to protest against the deaths of party activists in a clash with police, further raising tensions in the Himalayan nation.