Kolkata: The border with the neighbouring countries in West Bengal will be sealed three days ahead of the assembly polls to ensure free and fair elections in the state. "Border guards have been asked to seal the entire stretch between the state and its neighbouring countries three days ahead of the six-phase poll in the districts concerned," Chief Secretary Samar Ghosh said in Kolkata on Tuesday. "The state administration on...
02:31 PM, Mar 30, 2011
New Delhi: People people living with HIV/AIDS want to send the government a strong message. More than four lakh people on life-saving anti-retroviral drugs in India could lose access to the affordable medicines. If a proposed Free Trade Agreement with the European Union goes through. Daisy David who is living with HIV said, "Right now they have access to free ARV, they cannot afford to buy costly drugs." While annual...
08:18 AM, Mar 08, 2011
Indo-Nepal border (UP): The sale of un-verified SIM cards has been a constant cause for concern for our security agencies. But IBN-7 exposes how pre-activated SIM cards are being openly sold in the markets across the Indo-Nepal border for as little as Rs 30. At Rupaidiha town in Uttar Pradesh at the India-Nepal border, hundreds of people travel back and forth every day to buy ration and other basics. But...
08:02 AM, Mar 07, 2011
Kathmandu: When New Delhi resident Ketaki Gupta visited Nepal on her honeymoon this year, the bubbly copywriter and her sales executive husband Nitin dutifully visited popular tourist destination Pokhara city, the casinos, and the hallowed Pashupatinath temple, as recommended by their travel agent. "It's after I went back home and met a chance traveller from Nepal that I came to know about Nepal's 'Taj Mahal'," the 28-year-old bewails. "Why weren't...
10:45 AM, Feb 15, 2011
Mumbai: Gokul Nepali was barely 19 and just three months into his marriage when he was killed in the German bakery bomb blast. Now, a year later his family based in Nepal is still awaiting justice. While the centre has released the compensation amount of two lakh rupees, they are yet to receive the promised compensation of five lakh rupees from the Maharashtra government. Gokul's brother-in-law, Deependra Nepali said, "We...
07:00 AM, Feb 13, 2011
Washington: US Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Maria Otero will visit India, Bhutan and Nepal this week to discuss bilateral issues and look into the situation of refugees in the region, the State Department has said. During her trip to southern India and New Delhi, Otero will discuss bilateral coordination on global issues, visit Tibetan refugee settlements, explore cooperation to strengthen elections organisations and consult on regional disaster...
11:41 AM, Feb 08, 2011
Kathmandu: Though a seven-month-old political vacuum ended on Sunday with Nepal's new Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal taking oath of office and secrecy, the swearing-in was marred by disputes over power-sharing and anger by his own party men as well as former allies over a secret deal that became public. Khanal, who broke away from his party's ruling ally, the Nepali Congress, and struck a deal with the opposition Maoists...
03:57 PM, Feb 06, 2011
Kathmandu: Nepal's Parliament elected a Moderate Communist Leader as Prime Minister on Thursday, ending a political stalemate which the United Nations had warned could risk a peace process in the republic. Jhalnath Khanal, Chief of the Communist UML party, was elected Prime Minister with the support of Maoist former rebels, who dominate parliament, following seven months without an effective government in the Himalayan nation. The election raises hopes for a...
10:15 AM, Feb 04, 2011
New Delhi: The Chinese foreign ministry has rejected spying charges against three Chinese nationals who were arrested on the Indo-Nepal border on Monday. The trio including a woman was caught taking photographs of the Sashastra Seema Bal paramilitary force at a checkpost on the Indo-Nepal border. The three claimed they had arrived in a vehicle till the border, parked it there and then entered Indian territory on foot. The Chinese...
09:51 AM, Jan 21, 2011
Kathmandu: After Richard Gere, Sting, Cher and Leonardo DiCaprio, it is now the turn of international celebrity Bryan Adams to keep a date with Nepal, the land of Mt Everest. Three days after he winds up his five-city tour in India, Canadian rock star Bryan Adams has been roped in by a Kathmandu organisation for a live concert in Kathmandu Feb 19. The "Everything I do, I do it for...
01:50 PM, Dec 30, 2010
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: Four young Indian women and the owner of a hotel, also an Indian, have been arrested in Nepal for indulging in obscene acts and disturbing the peace. The five were arrested from a hotel in southern Nepal along the Indo-Nepal border on Christmas eve, Inspector Bhim Bahadur Bogati told IANS. "We received a tip-off that obscene dances were being held at the Shekhar Hotel in Birgunj," Bogati said. "When...
06:46 PM, Dec 27, 2010
Kathmandu: Four years after the Hindu kingdom of Nepal became a secular republic where Christians no longer face state persecution, guess who is making an epic journey here this Christmas? It's good old Santa Claus. Santa Claus has exchanged his reindeer-drawn sleigh for a boat, tractor, rickshaw and all the other indigenous contraptions that ply on Nepal's roads and lakes, and his sack contains unusual gifts: an artificial leg, a...
11:20 AM, Dec 22, 2010
Chicago: Children in rural Nepal whose mothers were given iron and folic acid supplements during pregnancy were smarter, more organized and had better fine motor skills than children whose mothers did not get them, US researchers said on Tuesday. They said ensuring that pregnant women get this basic prenatal care could have a big effect on the educational futures of children who live in poor communities where iron deficiency is...
09:34 AM, Dec 22, 2010
Kathmandu: Tees Maar Khan, the "great" Indian criminal, the likes of whom are born only once in a blue moon, and who "steals, cheats and cons with amazing audacity" has struck again - this time in Nepal. When Nepali film director Dev Kumar Shrestha announced his new film, the first supernatural thriller in Nepal, would be released on Christmas eve, he was not deterred by the thought of theatre-goers being...
08:28 PM, Dec 21, 2010
Kathmandu: Indian Army Chief General VK Singh reached Kathmandu on Monday on a four-day official visit to Nepal where he will be decorated with the honorary rank of General of the Nepal Army, signifying the close relationship between the two militaries. General Singh will be conferred the honorary rank of General of the Nepal Army on December 22 by President Ram Baran Yadav, who is the Supreme Commander of the...
06:43 PM, Dec 20, 2010
Washington: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is closer to being a high-tech terrorist, even as the US is yet to determine the type of charges to be framed against him, Vice-President Joe Biden said on Sunday. "I would argue that it's closer to being a high-tech terrorist than the Pentagon papers," Biden told the NBC News in an interview. "This guy (Assange) has done things that have damaged and put in...
09:39 AM, Dec 20, 2010
Kathmandu: Amid stepped up pressure on the government to curb anti-Beijing protests by Tibetans in Nepal, China has used its financial muscle to pay off Nepal Police to arrest members of the exiled community, according to secret US cables published by WikiLeaks. Cables released by the whistle-blower website show an unnamed source of the US Embassy in New Delhi repeatedly claiming that "Chinese government rewards Nepali forces by providing financial...
08:45 AM, Dec 20, 2010
Kathmandu: India, China and Nepal have agreed on a landmark plan for the conservation and sustainable development of the landscape of sacred mountain Kailash, which spreads across the three countries. Representatives from China, India, and Nepal have endorsed a draft Regional Cooperation Framework for conservation and sustainable development of the Kailash landscape at a workshop on the outskirts of the capital. The Kailash-Mansarovar Landscape covers the area linked culturally and...
11:30 PM, Dec 19, 2010
Kathmandu: Bands played joyously, Brahmins chanted mantras and women showered flowers as Nepal on Friday celebrated a "marriage made in heaven" thousands of years ago and forming one of its earliest social links with India. The temple town Janakpur in southern Nepal along the Indo-Nepal border, where Hindu epic Ramayana comes alive this time every year, is witnessing the replay of marriage of Ram, the Hindu icon and exemplary king...
04:50 PM, Dec 10, 2010
