Kathmandu: Nepal's Prime Minister Jhalanath Khanal resigned on Sunday pushing the country back into turmoil as political parties scrambled to form a new coalition government and draft a new constitution. Khanal, a moderate communist, was elected six months ago and vowed to carry out the promises made in a 2006 peace deal with Maoist rebels. But political in-fighting blocked his attempts to help thousands of ex-Maoist fighters living in camps,...
08:25 AM, Aug 16, 2011
Kathmandu: When Indian crooner Mamta Sharma's husky voice combined with glamour girl Malaika Arora's pulse-raising gyrations in Bollywood blockbuster "Dabangg", no one doubted that the raunchy song "Munni badnaam hui darling tere liye" would become an all-time hit in the sub-continent. However, few could have guessed that almost a year after the film was released, the "item number" - as a song and dance number is called in the Hindi...
01:17 PM, Jul 29, 2011
Kathmandu: Nepal police on Monday detained over 200 supporters of Baba Ramdev while they were holding a demonstration outside the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu against the crackdown on the yoga guru and his followers in New Delhi. Some of the members of Patanjali Yogpeeth, established by 46-year-old Baba Ramdev, submitted a memorandum to the Indian Embassy officials condemning police action terming it to be against human rights in a democratic...
05:06 PM, Jun 06, 2011
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: The political crisis in Nepal continues as the Parliament failed to elect the Prime Minister even after the sixth round of the prime ministerial elections on Sunday. Both the candidates Maoist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal, popularly known as 'Prachanda', and his rival of Nepali Congress, Ramchandra Poudyal, could not obtain majority in the Constituent Assembly, the Parliament of Nepal in capital Kathmandu. The ongoing constitutional crisis has been continuing...
10:52 AM, Sep 06, 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
The Maoists had refused to vote for the bill to extend the term of the Constituent Assembly till the Prime Minister quit. ...
10:36 AM, May 29, 2010
Maoists put up posters of their leaders wearing shoes depicting Indian flag. ...
11:42 PM, Jan 26, 2010
The strike entered the second day on Monday amidst widespread violence. ...
12:34 PM, Dec 21, 2009
Former Maoist guerrillas want their demands to meet before the deadline. ...
05:37 PM, Oct 28, 2009
Veteran communist leader Madhav Nepal was sworn in by the President. ...
12:36 PM, May 25, 2009
32 politicians from a key ethnic Nepal party will support govt led by CPN-UML. ...
01:38 PM, May 18, 2009
Koirala met Chinese envoy Qui Guohang at his residence on Thursday. ...
08:01 PM, May 14, 2009
Prachanda resigned as prime minister of Nepal last week. ...
03:10 PM, May 11, 2009
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