Colombo: Defending champions India fought back from a goal down to defeat Nepal 3-1 and retain the Women's SAFF Football Championship here on Sunday. Down by a third-minute goal scored by Nepal's Dipa Adhikari, Supriya Rout Roy restored parity for India five minutes later. Both the teams were locked 1-1 at the interval. India doubled the score in the 64th minute through Bem Bem Devi. Kamala Devi completed the rout...
09:51 AM, Sep 17, 2012
New Delhi: The wet surface at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium had the final say as defending champions India and Nepal played out a goalless draw in the Nehru Cup football tournament here on Tuesday. Needing a win to seal a place in the final for the third time in a row, India showed intent but could never find the much-needed goal against a side that fought bravely after coming off...
10:16 PM, Aug 28, 2012
New Delhi: Closing in on a final berth after a couple of convincing wins, the Indian football team will have to guard against complacency when it takes on tournament whipping boys Nepal in the Nehru Cup here on Tuesday. Under the tutelage of Wim Koevermans, India recorded easy wins over Syria (2-1) and Maldives, who were thrashed 3-0 at the Jawaharlal Nehru stadium. A win against Nepal will certainly ensure...
05:07 PM, Aug 27, 2012
Kathmandu: A Nepali man who was bitten by a cobra snake bit it back and killed the reptile in a tit-for-tat attack, a newspaper said on Thursday. Nepali daily Annapurna Post said Mohamed Salmo Miya chased the snake, which bit him in his rice paddy on Tuesday caught it and bit it until it died. "I could have killed it with a stick but bit it with my teeth instead...
02:20 PM, Aug 23, 2012
Chennai: It was high drama at Central Railway Station on Monday, after a 24-year-old man from Nepal, suspected to be mentally-ill, climbed atop the landmark clock tower and held on to a flagpole-cum-lightning conductor for over five hours. It was around 3 pm when railway officials spotted a man atop the clock tower. After an attempt by police to rescue the man, who locked the latch to the roof, turned...
12:57 PM, Aug 07, 2012
Kathmandu: At least 15 people, including an Indian, were killed when an Indian jeep they were travelling in veered off some 100 meters down the road in western Nepal's Palpa district early in Kathmandu. Earlier reports had said that all those killed were Indians. However, the police later confirmed that the victims included 14 Nepalese and an Indian. The Indian Embassy in Kathmandu also confirmed that only one Indian was...
10:40 AM, Jul 28, 2012
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Friday said development projects in districts adjoining Nepal would be speeded up to benefit people on both sides of the border. "UP has both emotional and social ties with Nepal and these will be further strengthened ... development works in the districts adjoining the neighbouring country would be speeded up to ensure economic progress of people on both the sides," he said....
02:04 AM, Jul 21, 2012
Kathmandu: The bodies of all 39 victims of the Nepal bus accident were recovered on Monday, reports said, with 29 of them being Indians. Authorities were in the process of handing over the bodies to families and relatives. Thirty nine people were killed when an overcrowded bus overturned and plunged into an irrigation canal on the Gandak in a district bordering Uttar Pradesh. Twenty nine of them were said to...
09:48 AM, Jul 16, 2012
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Government on Sunday announced a compensation of Rs one lakh each to the kin of the pilgrims from the state who died in an accident in Nepal when a bus skidded off a road and plunged into a flooded canal. Condoling the death of the pilgrims, who hailed from the state's Maharajganj district, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav announced the financial assistance, an official said. At least 39...
12:30 AM, Jul 16, 2012
Kathmandu: At least 34 Indians were among the 39 pilgrims who were killed on Sunday when tragedy struck their overcrowded bus that skidded off a slippery road and plunged into a swollen canal in southern Nepal. The bus was carrying 100 to 120 Hindu pilgrims, mostly from Uttar Pradesh, to a temple in Nawalparasi district, 150 kilometres west of the capital Kathmandu, police officials in Nawalparasi district. While 39 bodies...
04:39 PM, Jul 15, 2012
Kathmandu: In an unprecedented case, a 37-year-old man in Nepal was sentenced to 170 years in jail for trafficking teenaged girls to Indian brothels. The Sidhupalchowk District Court on Wednesday sentenced Bajir Singh Tamang of Shikharpur village to 170 years in jail after convicting him of selling six teenaged girls to Indian brothels. This is the severest jail term ever served to someone in country's judicial history. The victims who...
11:59 AM, Jul 12, 2012
(Answers must be written in Nepali) Paper I Section A History of the origin and development of Nepali as one of the new Indo-Aryan Languages. Fundamentals of Nepali Grammar and phonology: Nominal forms and categories: Gender, Number, Case, Adjectives, Pronouns, Avyayas Verbal forms and categories: Tense, Aspects, Voice, Roots and Fixes Nepali Swara and Vyanjana Major Dialects of Nepali. Standardisation and Modernisation of Nepali with special reference to language movements...
04:48 PM, Jul 04, 2012
Indian captain MS Dhoni was treated almost at par with royalty when he visited the kingdom. ...
09:42 AM, Jul 03, 2012
Ms Dhoni as their goodwill ambassador, Nepal and its youngsters want to make it big as a cricketing nation. ...
02:23 PM, Jun 29, 2012
Unmukt Chand's team beat Nepal by 81 runs and will play Sri Lanka in the semis at Kuala Lumpur on June 29. ...
05:09 PM, Jun 26, 2012
Kathmandu: Three parties quit Nepal's Maoist-led government on Monday as the Himalayan republic slipped deeper into crisis after the prime minister called elections following the failure to agree on a new constitution aimed at ending years of instability. Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai has called for November 22 elections to resolve the constitutional impasse, sparking a backlash from politicians and Nepalis who have seen the country lurch from one crisis to...
10:55 AM, May 29, 2012
Kathmandu: Nepal's warring political parties said on Sunday they had failed to narrow their differences sufficiently to agree on a new constitution for the Himalayan republic before a midnight deadline, plunging the country into fresh political turmoil. A new constitution was widely seen as crucial to ending the instability that has plagued Nepal since the end of a Maoist-led civil war in 2006 and subsequent overthrow of the monarchy, but...
07:25 AM, May 28, 2012
Kathmandu: Nepal will grant citizenship certificates to LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) community, recognising their sexual orientation for the first time. Nepal's Home Ministry has issued directives to this effect. Now third-gender people will have separate head as "others" in their citizenship certificates, according to Home Ministry spokesperson Shankar Koirala. "We have already issued directives to the Ministry of Law to add the "others" head in all necessary forms, documents...
05:03 PM, May 24, 2012
HYDERABAD: The bodies of two persons from the city, who died in the Nepal plane crash, were brought here on Wednesday night. The deceased are: 67-yearold G Venkatramana, a retired AG Office employee from Padmanabha Nagar in Mehdipatnam, and 32-year-old Mumbai ISKCON temple priest Krishna Chaitanya from Indraprastha Colony near Diamond Point in Secunderabad.Venkatramanas nephew Phani accompanied the bodies.A group of 20 pilgrims from the city, including Venkatramana, his wife...
11:46 AM, May 17, 2012
Mumbai: Even as they reeled from the shock of losing their loved ones, relatives of five of the 13 Indian passengers who died in the Nepal plane crash had to perform the painful task of flying to Kathmandu yesterday, in order to claim the bodies of their relatives. A total of 13 passengers died in the air disaster that took place in the cliffs of Jomson on Monday morning. Of...
11:40 AM, May 17, 2012
