Nepal’s fragile peace process has come to a standstill after progress towards end of 2011. Now Nepali Congress, the country’s oldest party, wants international intervention to put it back on track.
Sixty-five-year old Shyam Sundar Gupta should have been busy this Wednesday posing for photos with family members, friends and relatives for the family album. Instead he was getting clicked by news photographers and posing for the police cameraman.
Less than a month after postponing his trip, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao made a sudden stopover in Nepal on Saturday on way to a six-day visit to the Middle East.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao is schedule to arrive at 11 am for a five-hour visit before flying to Qatar. High security alert is issued and extra-security forces have been mobilised for the visit.
A wild elephant rampaged through a village in southeastern Nepal today trampling three people to death, police said.
Nepal's troubled peace process that saw some headway towards last quarter of 2011 has got stuck in New Year.
If winds of change had not swept Nepal six years ago, the country would have celebrated the 290th birth anniversary of its founding father Prithvi Narayan Shah on Wednesday and his descendent Gyanendra Shah would have presided over the festivities.
Tourism is Nepal’s golden goose. The country has been named as one of the best countries for adventure destination (National Geographic) and one of the 50 places to see before you die (BBC Holiday).
Tuesday was a bad day in office for Nepal's prime minister Baburam Bhattarai and constituent assembly speaker Subhas Nembang. The country's supreme court rejected their petitions seeking review of an earlier order passed last month.
With less than five months left to adopt a new constitution, Nepal's political parties are engaged in a debate over what form of government should the country have. Utpal Parashar reports.
With less than five months left to adopt a new constitution, Nepal’s political parties are engaged in a debate over what form of government should the country have. Utpal Parashar reports.
Nepal’s Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Bijay Kumar Gachchadhar embarked on a six-day China trip on Sunday.
A survey released by Berlin-based Transparency International in Kathmandu showed bribery has become so endemic that south Asia is second only to Africa as the corruption hotspot of the world.
Interested in taking part in a treasure hunt? If yes, here’s your chance to earn a reward for this Christmas and New Year festivities. But there’s a catch. There’s no map to follow clues and no guarantee how much you can expect to win, if you manage to trace the ‘hidden fortune’.
Protesters shut down a central Nepal district and life was disrupted in parts of the capital over the killing of a Nepali Congress' youth wing leader in a prison brawl.