Fasting is not my forte. Unlike Anna Hazare who can go without food for days, my longest fast lasts around nine hours —the time between dinner and my cup of morning tea. But these days I am seriously contemplating of following the Anna Way, for a selfish cause.
It's not common for heads of government to compare their tenures with films. But Nepal's new Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai did just that on Friday.
Nepal prime minister Baburam Bhattarai today embarks on a key visit to New York to attend the UN General Assembly meeting where he is scheduled to meet US President Barack Obama and hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese President Hu Jintao.
If a wife burns the food or demurs to have sex, her husband can beat her. And if she goes out without telling her mother-in-law or doesn't bring in dowry, the mother-in-law can do the same. That is how 62% of Nepali women feel, says a sample survey.
At least five people were killed when a strong 6.8 magnitude earthquake jolted Nepal today. Three people were killed when a high brick wall of the British Embassy in Kathmandu collapsed due to earthquake.
At least five persons were killed and seven others reported injured in the earthquake that rocked most parts of Nepal on Sunday evening.
Utpal Parashar reports.
The UK on Monday deeply regretted the loss of life in the powerful 6.8-magnitude earthquake that killed at least seven people in Nepal as it underlined its commitment “to do everything possible” to help the people and the government to overcome the tragedy.
Seventy years after his death, Rabindranath Tagore is no longer as much a familiar figure in neighbouring Nepal as he was half a century ago when the world celebrated his birth centenary. Utpal Parashar reports.
After foot-in-the-mouth remarks by US officials that stung Asia in the past, now it is the turn of Nepal’s acting Prime Minister to make a political gaffe, saying he prayed quakes would hit the US and other developed nations in future instead of Nepal.
Ending a four year break in dialogue, India and Nepal resumed bilateral talks on security issues in Kathmandu today. Utpal Parashar reports.
Nineteen people including 10 Indians were killed in an air crash at Kotdanda, approximately 20 kilometres from Kathmandu, today.
Utpal Parashar reports.
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A Spicejet flight that was about to leave Kathmandu for New Delhi was grounded on Sunday after a passenger allegedly claimed that a bomb was planted on the aircraft.
A 'disappearing act' by Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda', chairman of Nepal's ruling Maoist party, had led to a bevy of speculations about his whereabouts.
Scores of militant workers, whose hostilities forced ITC’s joint venture in Nepal to shut down its state-of-the-art garments factory in the Terai plains last month, have now begun to emulate Indian civil society activist Anna Hazare, beginning a fast in front of the factory to pressure the authorities to re-start the venture.
Diplomatic cables are in news again. But we are not discussing the latest WikiLeaks cables here. Instead let's focus on a dispatch sent by the US embassy in Kathmandu 52 years ago. This one dealt with Yeti, the Abominable Snowman of the Himalayas.