
Kathmandu: Though Nepal police have released the envoy of exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama after detaining him for eight hours, the threat hanging over the Tibetan diaspora deepened with the 55-year-old having to sign an undertaking. Thiley Lama, who is officially known as the volunteer coordinator of the Tibetan Refugee Welfare Office in Kathmandu, formerly part of the office of the Dalai Lama in Nepal, had to sign an undertaking...

01:43 PM, Aug 06, 2011

Kathmandu: A former senior military officer at Nepal's royal palace, who drew flak for the massacre of King Birendra and nine others in 2001, is now rattling new skeletons with his memoir. Gen. Bibek Shah, who rose from being the aide de camp of the king to becoming military secretary in the Narayanhity royal palace in Kathmandu, has opened a can of worms with his book, "Maile dekheko darbar" (The...

01:02 PM, Dec 29, 2010

KATHMANDU: A car said to have been a gift from Adolf Hitler to a Nepali king will be repaired and used to drive visitors around the grounds of a palace museum, a government official said on Thursday. The 1939 Mercedes Benz was presented by the Nazi leader to King Tribhuvan, grandfather of Nepal's last King Gyanendra, deposed two years ago. It has been stored at an old palace garage for...

05:42 PM, Sep 16, 2010

The ex-prince has been living in Singapore since July 2008. ...

01:11 PM, Mar 30, 2009

Narayanhiti palace is now open to the public after officially being turned into a museum. ...

12:24 PM, Feb 28, 2009

The former Nepal king arrived, took a taxi and headed for an undisclosed destination in the Capital. ...

05:44 PM, Feb 26, 2009

He was refused a diplomatic passport by the Maoist government of Nepal. ...

12:55 AM, Feb 26, 2009

Gyanendra was the patron of Pashupatinath temple before he was deposed. ...

01:42 AM, Jan 04, 2009

He will have to shell out over a million dollars as electricity bills within 15 days. ...

06:04 PM, Oct 24, 2008

Prachanda expressed his desire to implement a policy of "equidistance". ...

04:20 PM, Aug 19, 2008

The Constituent Assembly (CA) said that the first President would be elected on Saturday. ...

10:50 PM, Jul 15, 2008

The Nepal royal family's links with Puri are centuries old. ...

07:16 PM, Jul 02, 2008

The Benz was said to have been the first car ever in Kathmandu valley. ...

01:24 PM, Jun 20, 2008

Gyanendra, the last king of Nepal, left the palace last week. ...

04:11 PM, Jun 17, 2008

The museum will showcase the Mercedes Benz gifted by Hitler. ...

09:38 AM, Jun 16, 2008