New Delhi: Indian envoy to Nepal Rakesh Sood is to be recalled from Kathmandu. Sources say that External Affair Ministry is unhappy with the performance of Sood. Sood has been envoy for 2 years and 8 months. Sources say Sood is set to be replaced by MEA special secretary Jayant Prasad, who was formerly India's ambassador in Kabul. Highly placed MEA sources claim the government is unhappy with Sood's performance....
12:20 AM, Dec 10, 2010
Kathmandu: Nepal has the highest mountain in the world and now, the Himalayan republic is going to win another jumbo distinction when it holds the world's "biggest" beauty pageant -- for elephants. From Dec 26, Nepal's "Elephant Land", the hot and fertile Terai plains in the south, will hold the three-day Chitwan Elephant Festival where the gentle giants will take part in a football tourney, sprint and catwalk to the...
05:50 PM, Dec 09, 2010
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: Nearly three decades ago, when Jeff Greenwald fell in love with a doctor in Greece, he had no inkling his karma would lead him to Nepal and make him an acclaimed author who would also suffer a ban for his outspoken criticism of Nepal's then all-powerful royal family. The 56-year-old American author and intrepid traveller is now returning to Nepal with a new book - his sixth - and...
06:29 PM, Dec 06, 2010
Kathmandu: Nepalese lawmakers failed to end the uncertainty over the election of a new prime minister on Monday as Nepali Congress leader Ram Chandra Poudyal, the sole candidate for the top post, failed to get anywhere near a majority in the unprecedented 15th run-off poll. Poudyal, 65, who is adamant over not quitting the prime ministerial race, secured 96 votes while two lawmakers voted against him in the 601-member Constituent...
04:52 PM, Nov 01, 2010
Kathmandu: After failing to win the prime ministerial race seven times in a row, Nepal's opposition Maoist party said on Friday it was withdrawing its chief and former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda from the eighth vote scheduled for September 26. "We reached the decision at a meeting this morning with Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and the leaders of his Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist (UML)," Maoist...
01:46 PM, Sep 17, 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
Kathmandu: Muslims in Nepal on Friday joined the raging worldwide debate over an American pastor's plan to burn copies of the Quran to mark 9/11 terror attack anniversary, and warned the action could pit Muslims against Christians and trigger a "third world war over religion". "We condemn the announcement of Florida pastor Terry Jones that he would burn copies of the Quran on September 11, the ninth anniversary of the...
03:46 PM, Sep 10, 2010
United Nations: The growing distrust between rival political parties in Nepal has paralysed the fragile peace process and could threaten long-term peace, top UN envoy to the Himalayan nation has warned. In a briefing to the Security Council, head of UN peacekeeping force in Nepal (UNMIN) Karin Landgren described the situation as "discouraging picture of the state of Nepal's peace process, and of the failure of the political parties to...
03:46 PM, Sep 08, 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
Kathmandu: Indian ayurvedic giant Dabur India's Nepal unit, Dabur Nepal, is under a virulent smear campaign by a section of Nepal's disgruntled media, finally causing the Indian Embassy in Nepal to express concern. Though a few other Indian joint ventures in Nepal, including PepsiCo, have also faced attacks by some newspapers and television channels in the recent past, Dabur, one of Nepal's biggest revenue earners, has been the subject of...
07:55 PM, Aug 27, 2010
Kathmandu: All 14 passengers, including six foreigners, aboard a private aircraft were killed as the plane crashed near Kathmandu on Tuesday. The flight by domestic airline Agni Air headed towards northern Nepal was carrying 11 passengers, including four American women, an Irish and a Japanese tourist, and three Nepali crew members. Gyan Kumar Thakur, an eyewitness in Shikharpur village where the crash occurred around 7.30 a.m., said the aircraft was...
09:50 AM, Aug 24, 2010
Kathmandu: An 86-year-old former soldier, who married 32 times, has inspired the current commercial hit
Kanyadaan in Nepal with his 31st wife's son making it and acting in it as well. Shovit Basnet, a veteran in the Nepali film industry with 20 films to his credit, is now basking in the curiosity value of
Kanyadaan, his latest directorial venture that is drawing crowds because of an unusual phenomenon. For the...
12:28 PM, Aug 13, 2010
The UN decision, poles apart from the judgment handed down on last Friday by Nepal's Supreme Court, comes from the Human Rights Committee. ...
01:37 PM, Aug 05, 2010
Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj killed American tourist Connie Jo Bronzich in 1975. ...
03:39 PM, Jul 30, 2010
Sobhraj was convicted by the Kathmandu district court in 2004 for the murder of an American tourist Connie Jo Bronzich in Nepal. ...
08:30 AM, Jul 30, 2010
Sobhraj was convicted by the Kathmandu district court in 2004 for the murder of an American tourist in Nepal. ...
07:44 AM, Jul 14, 2010
Sita Tamang was once a child soldier who rubbed shoulders with top UN officials. ...
01:08 PM, Jul 05, 2010
The Opposition Maoists have been demanding his ouster in parliament and on the streets for some time. ...
06:28 PM, Jun 30, 2010
