India suggests high dam over Kosi, invites Nepal ministerKATHMANDU - India’s Water Resources Minister Pawan Kumar Bansal Sunday wound up an inspection of the Kosi river in Nepal, and suggested a high dam as a permanent solution to frequent floods of the river that hit both countries. Indian minister to visit NepalKATHMANDU - Less than a month after India sent its Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon to Nepal, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Water Resources Pawan Kumar Bansal is arriving in Kathmandu on a two-day visit Saturday. Nepal Maoists to oppose government’s policiesKATHMANDU - Though they ended their two-month siege of parliament, Nepal’s former guerrilla party, the Maoists, Friday indicated they would keep up their opposition to the new ruling alliance by rejecting its policies and programmes for the current financial year. Woman kidnapped in Kathmandu, trail leads to IndiaKATHMANDU - Amid increasing incidents of lynchings triggered by suspicions of kidnapping, Nepal police Friday said they had rescued an abducted young woman who was being taken across the border to India. Indians losing millions due to currency ban in NepalKATHMANDU - Delhi-bound Anil Kumar Sharma had a traumatic experience in Nepal during his recent visit. Nepal committed to better ties with IndiaKATHMANDU - The Nepal government said it would seek better ties with neighbours India and China, as it unveiled policies and programmes for the current financial year Thursday. Nepal to probe ex-royals’ assets at home, abroadKATHMANDU - Nepal’s new government Thursday tabled its policies and programmes in parliament, pledging to investigate the properties and assets owned by the former royal family. Indian firm to be called to repaid Kosi barrage in Nepal
Indian held in Nepal for recruiting kids for monasteryKATHMANDU - A 40-year-old Indian has been detained by police for trying to recruit nearly a dozen children from a remote village in northernmost Nepal, touching the border with Tibet. Nepal unfolds its policies and programmesKATHMANDU - Nepal Government will present its policies and programmes in the parliament on Thursday. Royalists celebrate as Nepal’s last king conquers family curseKATHMANDU - Thousands of men, women and children, dressed in their finery, flocked to celebrate Nepal’s last king Gyanendra’s 62nd birthday as drummers rolled out thundering beats and dancers wearing traditional masks leapt up in the air, creating a carnival-like spectacle. Nepal bans anti-China activities but Dalai Lama allowed entryKATHMANDU - Under growing pressure from the Chinese government after six of its lawmakers met exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama in India, Nepal announced a ban on all anti-China and pro-Tibet activities from Monday, celebrated by the Tibetan diaspora worldwide as the 74th birthday of the Nobel laureate. Nepal’s students go on warpathKATHMANDU - Students organisations of two of the largest parties in Nepal’s ruling alliance went on the warpath Sunday, triggering violence, arson and vandalisation in one of the oldest colleges in the capital. Save Mt Everest - with an apple pieKATHMANDU - Want to save Mt Everest, the universal symbol of grandeur, toughness and adventure? Then eat an apple pie. Nepal PM expands cabinet under siegeKATHMANDU - 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. 7 killed in Nepal’s Viagra warKATHMANDU - Six people have been arrested after a turf war over what is known as Nepal’s `herbal Viagra’ erupted in a remote northern district, resulting in the death of seven villagers, police said Friday. 13 Indians, 12 Nepalis feared killed in Qatar ship capsizeKATHMANDU - Twenty-nine people, including 13 Indians and 12 Nepalis, are feared to have perished in a ship capsize off Doha Port in Qatar after searches for survivors since Tuesday yielded only five bodies. Prachanda hopes for formation of new Maoist-led government in NepalKATHMANDU - Former Nepal Prime Minister and Unified CPN (Maoist) Chairman Prachanda has claimed that a new government under the leadership of his party would be formed within next one-and-half months. China frets at new Tibetan protests in NepalKATHMANDU - 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. Nepal’s beleaguered envoys ‘talk’ through the lensKATHMANDU - They have been under continuous fire from the Maoists as well as royalists and nationalists for allegedly overstepping their roles and intervening in the internal matters of Nepal. Now the two beleaguered diplomats - Indian Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood and his American counterpart Nancy J. Powell - have decided to reveal that they were truly more than ambassadors and shoot back. Nepal’s last king to celebrate his birthday - with a wedding bashKATHMANDU - He may no longer be the all-powerful king who was obeyed unquestioningly by his subjects who regarded him to be an incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu, but Nepal’s last king Gyanendra will still celebrate his birthday next week with a lavish party. Indian arrested from Kathmandu airportKATHMANDU - An Indian man was arrested from Nepal’s sole international airport in Kathmandu Tuesday. According to police, Anil Kumar Sharma, who checked in at the Tribhuvan International Airport in the morning to catch an Indian Airlines flight to New Delhi, was arrested after security forces found 140 currency notes of the denomination of Rs.1,000 each from his hand bag. Manipal group enters Nepal’s school sectorKATHMANDU - After the Manipal Education and Medical Group and global online tutoring company TutorVista came together last year to launch Manipal K-12 Education that aims to provide technology supports to schools, the venture is now poised to enter Nepal’s education sector in a big way. Nepal government would fall within weeks: PrachandaKATHMANDU - 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. Indian Maoists criticise Prachanda for betraying the revolutionKATHMANDU - Banned by the Indian government a week ago and facing redoubled security action in several Indian states, India’s Maoist party has now criticised its former ally, the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), accusing its chief and former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda of betraying the revolutionary cause. Nepal Maoist Politburo resumes meetingKATHMANDU - Unified CPN (Maoist) Chairman Prachanda has started furnishing answers to the questions raised by the politburo members of the party on Monday. New Nepal PM in fresh army controversyKATHMANDU - Almost two months after Nepal’s Maoist government became embroiled in a row with the army and was ousted from power, the republic’s new Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal now finds himself dragged into yet another controversy involving both the army and the Maoist guerrilla forces. Five Indians narrowly escape lynching in NepalKATHMANDU - 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. They instead ended up in police custody. Nepal Maoist-UML meeting on House stalemate inconclusiveKATHMANDU - Leaders of the main opposition Unified CPN (Maoist) and the ruling CPN (UML) met in a bid to reach an understanding to break the deadlock in parliament, but they could not arrive at any conclusion. Pakistan foreign secretary to visit NepalKATHMANDU - Less than a week after India sent its Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon to Kathmandu to discuss border problems with Nepal’s new government as well as the halted peace process, Pakistan is sending its foreign secretary here for talks. |
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KATHMANDU - Indian wagon-maker Jessop and Company Ltd will be asked to undertake an unusual project in Nepal: repair the nearly five-decade old barrage on the Kosi river that has been flooding southern Nepal and India’s Bihar state with chilling regularity.
