New Delhi: Literature, the soul of cultural exchange, is giving conventional diplomacy a run for its space in South Asia with the mushrooming literary festivals that are provoking, discussing and building new bridges across cultures. Five major literature festivals - the Jaipur Literature Festival, Mountain Echoes in Bhutan, the Kathmandu Literary Yatra, the Galle Literary Festival in Sri lanka and the Karachi Literature Festival - which have been showcasing literature...
10:45 AM, May 28, 2012
Kathmandu: The bodies of 13 Indian pilgrims who died in a plane crash in northern Nepal will be handed over to their relatives on Tuesday after the process of postmortem is completed. The bodies were airlifted to Kathmandu on Monday, according to Agni Air staff. The Indians were among 15 persons who were killed when a small plane with 21 people on board crashed in northern Nepal on Monday after...
11:15 AM, May 15, 2012
Nepal Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has ordered an inquiry into the plane crash. ...
08:14 AM, May 15, 2012
Kathmandu: Indian child artist Taruni Sachdev was among those who died in the Nepal plane crash on Monday. The 14-year-old had a cameo in the Amitabh Bachchan-starrer 'Paa' and acted in numerous southern language films. She had also featured in over 50 commercials, including one with Karishma Kapoor. Taruni's mother who was accompanying her on the flight also died in the crash. Thirteen Indians among 15 people died in the...
07:57 AM, May 15, 2012
Kathmandu: At least three people were killed and seven others injured on Monday in a bomb attack in the Nepalese capital where a number of government offices, including that of the Prime Minister, are located. Three people were killed when the bomb exploded on a road between the office of Nepal Oil Corporation and Kathmandu District Court at Singhdubar. Seven people also injured in the attack. The site of the...
04:55 PM, Feb 27, 2012
Kathmandu: A 72-year-old Nepalese man who is about the size of a toddler on Sunday became the world's shortest person ever recorded. A doctor and Guinness World Records official measured Chandra Bahadur Dangi to confirm his height of 21.5 inches (54.6 centimeters). Guinness official Craig Glenday presented Dangi with two certificates for being the world's shortest living man and the world's shortest person recorded in Guinness' 57-year history. "I am...
09:20 AM, Feb 27, 2012
Kathmandu: Seeking strengthening of Indo-Nepal ties, top political leaders in Kathmandu on Wednesday underlined the need for reviewing the 1950 peace and friendship treaty with India in order to make it relevant in the present global scenario. Participating in an interaction in the Nepalese capital on the eve of India's Republic Day, Nepali Congress leader Narayan Khadka said that Nepal should adopt appropriate policies to get benefit from the two...
04:42 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Kathmandu: The UK on Thursday pledged full support to Nepal's peace process and offered an aid of 20 million pounds to conclude the reconciliation efforts in the country. In a meeting held in Kathmandu with Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai, UK's Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell pledged assistance of 20 million pounds (NRs 2.5 billion) and also extended his country's full support for the ongoing peace process. Mitchell...
08:58 PM, Jan 19, 2012
Chennai: A plane crash in Bisankunarayan village, a few miles away from Kathmandu on Sunday has left all 19 people on board dead. Among the dead, ten passengers were Indians and eight of them were members of the Builders Association of India hailing from Trichy in Tamil Nadu. Central board member Goutaman said, "Our Builders Association conference was taking place in New Delhi. Eight employees had gone to take part...
09:24 PM, Sep 25, 2011
Kathmandu: The bomb disposal team of the Nepal Army has not found any bomb on the Spice Jet flight, which was searched at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu. The search was conducted inside the flight following a bomb scare. The authorities in Nepal suspected a bomb inside the Spice Jet flight. The bomb disposal team of Nepal Army was rushed to airport to conduct a search inside the aircraft....
12:38 PM, Sep 25, 2011
Kathmandu: The passenger plane carrying 19 people that went missing in Nepal crashed in Kathmandu on Sunday, killing all the people onboard. Out of the 16 tourists, 10 were Indians, said Apoorva Srivastava, the spokesperson of the Indian Embassy in Nepal. She also said that the Nepalese government has deployed two helicopters to carry out rescue operations and to bring back the bodies. She said that the weather was perfectly...
09:24 AM, Sep 25, 2011
New Delhi: At least 28 people have lost their lives and over 100 injured after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit Sikkim on Sunday evening. Authorities fear the toll could rise further. The exact extent of damages is yet to be assessed as relief and rescue is yet to reach affected areas. Out of the 28 dead, 19 are from Sikkim, two from Bihar and five in West Bengal. Two Army...
10:15 AM, Sep 19, 2011
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: The first public lesbian wedding in Nepal, held this week under the aegis of the republic's gay rights icon Sunil Babu Pant, has inspired the gay communities in India's West Bengal and Kerala to seek help to host the two states' first public gay rallies next month. Pant, who is also Nepal's only openly gay member of parliament, founded the Blue Diamond Society (BDS) in 2002 to spearhead the...
04:57 PM, Jun 22, 2011
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