
Kathmandu: The darkest day in Nepal's history that saw King Birendra and nine family members killed in the Narayanhity Palace has been studiously avoided by writers and filmmakers, including Bollywood icon Dev Anand. Nine years later, the first "stone" has been cast into that "pool of silence" with a Nepali theatre activist taking the royal massacre head-on. Yubaraj Ghimire, a 30-year-old theatre activist from eastern Nepal, has stitched together incidents...

02:23 PM, Dec 09, 2010
Kathmandu: Ahead of the key polls for Nepal's new Premier, Maoists have landed in a controversy as a wiretap alleged that the party had sought Rs 50 crore from China to "buy" lawmakers to get its supremo Prachanda elected to the coveted post after five rounds of voting failed to produce a winner. In a telephonic conversation, the tape of which was leaked to the media in Kathmandu, Unified CPN-Maoists'...

03:16 PM, Sep 04, 2010

Sita Tamang was once a child soldier who rubbed shoulders with top UN officials. ...

01:08 PM, Jul 05, 2010

The Maoists have demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal. ...

02:21 PM, May 02, 2010

Temple insiders, including Nepalis want the Indian priests to be restored. ...

02:28 AM, Jan 06, 2009

Foreign Minister accuses Maoist govt of politicizing religious affair. ...

02:46 PM, Jan 04, 2009

Prachanda says the 21st century communist is not dogmatic and that India's Maoists have not evolved with the times. ...

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