Nepal News Archives

Rajapaksa, who is on a three-day official visit of Nepal, also inspected the Lankan pilgrims guest house built in Lumbini.

By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Oct 30 : Ahead of their announced blockade of government offices, the Kathmandu valley and Nepal's only international airport, the republic's former Maoist guerrillas Friday asked neighbour India not to intervene, saying it was an internal matter of Nepal.

Bangladesh News.Net Friday 30th October, 2009 India is considering granting passage to trucks from Nepal going to Bangladesh, media reports said.

A group of Maoists attacked Nepali Congress leaders including former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and Parliament member Gagan Thapa in Chitawan district in Nepal.

KATHMANDU: A two-year-old girl was killed and partially eaten by a tiger in central Nepal, bringing the toll of children killed to six even as an international summit started in the capital Tuesday bringing experts together to discuss strategies to save the big cats from extinction.

KATHMANDU: Nepal is seriously engaged in taking the on-going peace process to a positive conclusion, writing a new democratic Constitution within the stipulated time-frame, and meeting the rising aspirations of the Nepalese people.

The government has picked up cross border crime as its main agenda for the dialogue, which in its second edition is going to take place in Kathmandu, informed sources at the Home Ministry.

United Nations Mission in Nepal Chief Karen Landgren called on Unified Communist Party of Nepal Chairman Prachanda at the latter's residence in the capital Kathmandu on Sunday.

The party has said that it is in support of giving all executive power to the cabinet headed by a prime minister who obtains at least 51 percent of votes directly from the people.

Tiger skin trade in China exposed By Jody Bourton Earth News reporter Page last updated at 12:51 GMT, Friday, 23 October 2009 An undercover investigation has revealed the continued trade in tiger skins in China.

Government officials said that the Commerce Ministers from Nepal and India will put ink on the revised treaty amid a function on Tuesday.

Nepal's former Maoist guerrillas Friday extended the 24-hour ultimatum they had slapped on the coalition government, saying they would start fresh protests if their demands were not addressed by Nov 1. The central committee of the formerly outlawed party began a council of war at the party office in Kathmandu Friday to finalise a new protest ...

CHITWAN: Nepali Congress Vice President Ram Chandra Poudel on Thursday said relations of NC leaders with Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal have gone sour after his decision to promote Sujata Koirala to deputy prime minister.

The deceased are Santosh Gupta of Dhamboji, Bipun Khetan of Surkhet Road and Rabi Kishor Agrawal of Bageshwori Tole, according to Pradip Gupta, deputy general secretary of Nepalgunj Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Bhutanese refugee women look out from their bamboo hut at the Beldangi II refugee camp, some 300km south-east of Kathmandu Chandrakhar Adhikari does not know whether he will ever see his two brothers again.

In this picture taken on September 27, 2009, bystanders watch as soldiers prepare to sacrifice a buffalo on the ninth day of Dashain Festival in Kathmandu Every five years a temple in southern Nepal plays host to an extraordinary religious festival in which hundreds of thousands of animals are sacrificed to the Hindu goddess of power Gadhimai.

KATHMANDU: Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal "Prachanda" said his weeklong visit to China was important in improving relations between the two countries.

A map of Jammu& Kashmir, showing the LoC. IANS KATHMANDU: Besides issuing separate visas to Indian passport holders from Jammu and Kashmir, China is also projecting the disputed territory as an independent country in other ways.

One of the foremost Irish-language poets is expected to have his work removed from the school curriculum in the wake of a tangled sexual controversy.

He wished all Nepalis peace, prosperity and happiness. In a message of greetings released by the Office of the President Sunday, President Dr Yadav said we have been involving in a great campaign of making new constitution for three years.

Nepali Congress vice-president Prakash Man Singh , Central Committee member Suprabha Ghimire and NC youth leader Gagan Thapa with other NCA leaders at a tea reception hosted by NC Kathmandu constituency - 4 on the occasion of Tihar, Chhath and Nepal Sambat at Chabahil on Friday, Oct 16 09.

The prime minister reached Mustang to observe Nepal-China border and security situation in the district, according to his Press Advisor, Bishnu Rijal.

Kathmandu, Oct 16 Want to buy exquisite, original art at an affordable price? Visit Nepal , just an hour's journey from India, where the art market, once depressed due to 12 years of violence and political turmoil, is now seeking to invite the world and be linked to global developments.

KATHMANDU: The UN will cut food aid to thousands of refugees from Bhutan living in camps in Nepal for the first time in 18 years because of severe food and funding shortages, the World Food Programme said yesterday.

Recent floods and landslides in different districts in mid and far-western regions of Nepal have caused damages to 195 irrigation projects and crops in more than 16,000 hectares of land, according to the government.

Via RepAoblica : Swine flu appears among masses . Excerpt: H1N1 Influenza--otherwise known as swine flu--has now appeared among the masses, the Health Ministry said organizing a press conference Thursday.

Khagendra Thapa Magar, right, celebrates his 18th birthday in Pokhara some 110km west of Kathmandu yesterday Khagendra Thapa Magar from Nepal, thought to be the world's smallest living man at just 22 inches , has turned 18 and now hopes to be officially recognised for his record size.

A temple seen in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu. Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Oct 14 The man trying to cross into India through the Kakarbhitta border check post in eastern Nepal's Jhapa district caught the attention of police though he presented a valid passport.

To counter China's great push to build railway links in South Asia, the Indian Railways has come up with a plan to build links with Nepal and Bhutan.

May 2006: Khagendra Thapamagar, who was 14 in this file photo, listens to the radio in Kathmandu, Nepal.

KATHMANDU: For the first time in Nepal's history, its former royal family has been slapped with a law suit by a common law wife, who is now seeking her share of property.

Chief of the Army Staff Chhatra Man Sing Gurung has said that the Army will accept the decision of the government based on the recommendation made by the Special Committee for the Supervision, Integration and Rehabilitation of Maoist combatants which is headed by the Prime Minister.

It has been learnt that the Nepali side has proposed joint-secretary level meeting of the two countries for November 4-5 in Kathmandu.

Kathmandu, 10 Oct: Amid Maoists' agitation aimed at dislodging him from power, Premier Mr Madhav Kumar Nepal has challenged them to form government by proving majority in Parliament instead of pursuing politics of deceit and rejected their charge that his administration was a 'puppet' installed with 'foreign' support.

Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Maoist cadres clashed with police as they tried to obstruct the Prime Minister's convoy in Pokhara when he arrived there to inaugurate the 3rd general convention of Higher Secondary School Teachers Association on Friday.

This week's flooding in the western regions of Nepal further demonstrates the urgent need for action to reduce disaster risk As the flood toll in Nepal rose beyond 50 people and thousands were marooned in the western region, the UN late on Thursday said it was sending a special envoy to announce a disaster reduction plan.

In the past, when the Nepal government fought the Maoists, it obtained arms from India at a high subsidy.

The annual Surya Nepal KathmanduJazz Festival, or popularly known as "Jazzmandu," starts here from Thursday.

Landslides triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 34 people in various parts of western Nepal, government officials said Wednesday.

At least 36 people were killed in western parts of the country on Tuesday due to landslides and floods triggered by incessant rain since the last couple of days, China's Xinhua news agency said quotung The Kathmandu Post's reports on Wednesday.

AT least 45 people have been killed by landslides and flash floods triggered by torrential rains in remote western Nepal, officials said.

Floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains have killed at least 34 people in western Nepal, officials say.

Unseasonably heavy rains in western Nepal left a trail of destruction Tuesday, killing at least 36 people and injuring several others, official said.

National Democratic Front of Bodoland , an underground armed outfit active in North-east India, has shot dead eight Nepali speaking persons along with two persons of the indigenous community and two Assamese in Sonitpur, Assam, India, Kantipur daily reported.

A two-day international workshop on climate change and its impact on Asian agriculture began here in Kathmandu Monday.

Nepali Congress President Girija Prasad Koirala, who had originally proposed the mechanism immediately after the formation of the government five months ago, reiterated the need of such a mechanism again.

Nepal's new constitution, which is expected to be promulgated in May 2010 and cement the peace negotiations that ended a 10-year civil insurgency that left over 16,000 dead, is fast becoming a mirage, with the country's major parties remaining at loggerheads.

NEPAL is to deploy armed police along its northern border with Tibet, the country's home minister has said, days after nearly 80 Tibetans were arrested in the capital Kathmandu.

Kathmandu, Nepal, Oct 1, 2009 .- At least 23 people were killed in the eastern Nepal when the three-story bamboo structure in which they were sleeping collapsed.

For the first time in its history, Nepal will form a Border Security Force to patrol its northernmost tip of the border it shares with Tibet in a bid to prevent anti-China activities by Tibetan dissidents, Nepal's Home Minister Bhim Rawal said.

KATHMANDU: Sixty-one years after he died, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhia s dream of self-reliance lives on in Nepal.

Nepal arrested more than two dozen Tibetan exiles in Kathmandu on Thursday in a bid to prevent anti-China protests as China observed the 60th anniversary of its founding.