Kathmandu, Nepal News

Fearing a repeat of last year's devastating floods, the Bihar government has requested Nepal to deploy armed security forces on embankments of the Kosi river to ensure that there is no breach, officials here said Friday.

KATHMANDU: Over 100 people have been killed and more than 4,000 affected as Nepal's ancient enemy diarrhoea struck remote districts, reports said.

Kathmandu-based Representative of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Richard Bennett has voiced concern over Nepal government's decision to promote Toran Jung Bahadur Singh from Major General to Lieutenant General.

Former king Gyanendra is being congratulated by his supporters, during his 63rd birthday celebrations at his private residence in Kathmandu, yesterday Nepal's deposed King Gyanendra has said he was "very perturbed" at the lack of progress in establishing peace and prosperity for the people of the Himalayan nation a year after the end of the ...

KATHMANDU: Ahead of the Dalai Lama's 74th birthday Monday, a fresh controversy has erupted in Nepal, home to a sizeable number of Tibetan refugees, after six Nepali lawmakers had an audience with the exiled Tibetan leader in Dharamsala town in north India.

EVERY year, Nepalese rice farmer Ratnakaji Maharjan celebrates the arrival of the monsoon rains by attending a centuries-old festival in this historic town near Kathmandu.

The use of Hindi by a Nepalese minister, also a leader of a Terai-based party, sparked a controversy at a function in Kathmandu as the audience objected to him speaking in the language.

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Kathmandu, July 3 : King of pop Michael Jackson's untimely death last week spurred fresh public interest in him worldwide.

I went because: We have done extensive travel in Southeast Asia but we have never seen the Himalayas, including Mount Everest.

Kathmandu, July 3 : Given only a couple more weeks by the Maoists and unable to table the budget in parliament due to their opposition, Nepal's beleaguered Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Friday expanded his cabinet in a surprise move, inducting two more ministers.

KATHMANDU: The homosexual community in Nepal today hailed the ruling by the Delhi High Court legalising sex between consenting adult homosexuals, calling it a "liberalisation fromBritish colonialism" and hoping that it would lead to similar freedom in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.

Kathmandu, July 2 : Three days after Nepal reported its first cases of swine flu, health officials Thursday said the Influenza A virus has also been detected in two more.

Fretting at the resumption of anti-China protests in Nepal by Tibetan refugees, Beijing has sent a delegation to Kathmandu to seek support from the new government of Nepal to quell them.

The restoration of the intricately carved stone sculpture of the Tusha Hiti and Bhandarkhal Tank at the Patan Royal Palace in Kathmandu, Nepal, is one of eight projects at World Heritage Sites to receive financial support from the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation in 2009.

By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, June 29 : Maoist chief and former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda Monday said the month-old ruling coalition of new premier Madhav Kumar Nepal would fall 'within weeks' and a new national government would be formed.

"My parents are very worried and they are asking me to change my profession." Media workers are increasingly finding themselves caught up in the bitter struggle for power in Nepal after the fall of the Maoist-led government in May.

When the power cuts that frequently plague Nepal were at their worst this winter, one of the biggest frustrations for many people was missing their favourite television soap opera.

The authority said it was issuing the garments to all officials after uncovering widespread corruption at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport.

Kathmandu, June 28 : Five Indian men narrowly escaped being lynched in Nepal Sunday on suspicion of being child lifters after growing public fears over an increase in the number of kidnappings.