Kailash Yatra: Two more Indians fall ill

KATHMANDU - Even as a 54-year-old man, officially the seventh Indian pilgrim to have died while attempting the gruelling Kailash Yatra in Tibet, was cremated in Kathmandu Saturday, two fellow travellers had seizures and were rushed to hospital, pilgrims returning to the Nepal capital said.

Another Indian pilgrim dies during Kailash yatra (Lead)

KATHMANDU - One more Indian pilgrim on the yatra to the holy Mount Kailash in Tibet died Friday, travellers returning to Kathmandu from the gruelling overland journey said.

Another Indian pilgrim dies on Kailash yatra

KATHMANDU - Another Indian pilgrim on the yatra to the holy Mt Kailash in Tibet died Friday, travellers returning to Kathmandu from the gruelling overland journey said.

India satisfied with Koshi repair works

KATHMANDU - India on Thursday said the work carried out by the Indian contractor company commissioned for the reconstruction of flood-breached Koshi embankment is satisfactory.

Nepal former deputy PM passes away

KATHMANDU - Former Deputy Prime Minister and Nepali Congress leader Shailaja Acharya passed away this morning while undergoing treatment at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital in Maharagunj.

US sends envoy to Nepal

KATHMANDU - The new Barack Obama government sent its first envoy to Nepal Friday with US Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert O. Blake arriving here for consultations with the republic’s key political players.

Nepal’s first woman deputy PM dead

KATHMANDU - Shailaja Acharya, the only woman politician in Nepal to have been a deputy prime minister, died here early Friday after a long battle with Alzheimer’s and pneumonia.

Nepal and India to inspect Koshi repair works

KATHMANDU - The Government teams of Nepal and India are to carry out joint inspection of the repair works at the damaged Koshi embankment on Thursday.

Bihar minister inspects Kosi embankment repair in Nepal

KATHMANDU - The Bihar government Thursday sent its Minister of Water Resources Bijendra Prasad Yadav to southern Nepal to inspect the repair of the breached embankment of Himalayan river Kosi known as the “sorrow of Bihar”.

Get acclimatised before Kailash yatra, Nepal tells Indians

KATHMANDU - With the death of six Indian pilgrims during the gruelling overland pilgrimage to Mount Kailash and the Mansarovar lake in Tibet, Nepal’s concerned tourism board Wednesday issued a travel advisory for travellers, asking them to get acclimatised first.

‘Shocking to see 83-year-old woman on her own to Mt Kailash’

KATHMANDU - As details start to come in about the casualties among Indians who went on a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash and the Mansarovar lake, the picture emerges of appalling ignorance about the weather conditions in Tibet and the hardship the land journey entails.

Thirty-three stranded Mansarovar pilgrims evacuated to Nepalganj

KATHMANDU - Thirty-three stranded Indian pilgrims returning from Kailash and Mansarovar have been evacuated to Nepalganj on Wednesday.

UML, Maoists close to end ongoing political deadlock

KATHMANDU - The new CPN (UML) coalition and the CPN (Maoist) have agreed to find a way out of the current political impasse’ by adopting a ‘middle path’ acceptable to all major political forces.

10 Indians killed during Kailash pilgrimage

KATHMANDU - At least 10 Indians were killed while attempting to undertake the pilgrimage to the Mount Kailash in Tibet and the nearby Mansarovar lake, venerated by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains alike.

Indo-Nepal boundary map being finalized

KATHMANDU - Indian Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood said on Tuesday that a joint committee is working towards finalisation of a boundary map between India and Nepal to resolve the border issue that has long been in contention.

Diplomatic tug-of-war over Nepal begins anew

KATHMANDU - As the new government of Nepal Tuesday remained trapped in an impasse even a fortnight after its formation, world concern began to mount with the UN being the first to send its envoy to the Himalayan republic lying under a fresh Maoist siege.

Nepal, India sign MoUs under SAARC cooperation

KATHMANDU - Nepal and India signed four Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) aimed at fostering cooperation under the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC) framework here on Monday.

Nepal Maoists’ insurgent movement no longer ‘People’s War’?

KATHMANDU - After the fall of their eight-month government, Nepal’s Maoist party now faces the prospect of literally losing their ‘People’s War’ as the sustained insurgency staged by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) for 10 years to end monarchy may soon be officially termed an ‘armed conflict’.

Nepal PM to visit India, Egypt

KATHMANDU - Visiting Indian Joint Secretary Satish C. Mehta and Indian Ambassador to Nepal Rakesh Sood met Foreign Secretary Gyan Chandra Acharya on Monday and discussed Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal’s visit to India.

India continues to be under fire in Nepal

KATHMANDU - Rejecting the Indian embassy’s statement that there had been no violation of the international border or attacks on Nepalis by Indian security forces, two separate Nepali teams Monday headed to inspect the reportedly troubled areas even as two petitioners asked the apex court to intervene in the matter.

Nepal reels under shutdown double whammy

KATHMANDU - The 13-day-old Communist government of Nepal reeled under a double whammy Monday with two of its former allies, the Maoists and the Madhesis, calling separate shutdowns that paralysed almost half of the nascent republic’s 75 districts.

Maoists enforce strike, close Hindustan Unilever’s Nepal factory (Lead)

KATHMANDU - Nepal’s former ruling party, the Maoists, Sunday shut down Indian cosmetic giant Hindustan Unilever Ltd’s factory while enforcing a general strike.

Indian trader killed in Nepal

KATHMANDU - A businessman from Gorakhpur town in India was killed in southern Nepal allegedly after a dispute over money with his own Indian partners, police said.

Maoists shut down Hindustan Unilever’s Nepal factory

KATHMANDU - Nepal’s former ruling party, the Maoists, Sunday forced shut down of the Indian cosmetic giant Hindustan Unilever Ltd’s factory in the country.

India denies attacks by its border forces on Nepalis

KATHMANDU - Even as Nepal’s lawmakers Saturday decided to send a team to the western region, where there are growing claims of attacks on villagers by India’s border security force - the Seema Suraksha Bal (SSB), the Indian embassy here denied the allegations.

New Nepal government totters as ally pulls out over deputy PM (Lead)

KATHMANDU - Within 24 hours of inducting eight new members into the cabinet, Nepal’s new coalition government headed by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal was plunged into a fresh crisis Friday with a key ally withdrawing support and expelling its lone member in the council of ministers.

Nepal government totters after new ministers’ entry

KATHMANDU - Within 24 hours of inducting eight new members into the cabinet, Nepal’s new coalition government headed by Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal was plunged into a fresh crisis Friday with a key ally threatening to withdraw support.

Nepal cabinet has eight more ministers

KATHMANDU - Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has expanded his three-member cabinet by inducting one deputy prime minister and seven new ministers including six ministers from Nepali Congress and one from the CPN (ML) here on Thursday.

Nepal PM swears in eight new ministers

KATHMANDU - Ten days after he became Nepal’s new prime minister, replacing Maoist premier Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, communist leader Madhav Kumar Nepal Thursday finally expanded his three-member cabinet with eight new ministers from three more parties.

Rising daughter adds to Nepal’s cabinet chaos

KATHMANDU - She has been likened to India’s Indira Gandhi and Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina.

However, the rise of Sujata Koirala, Nepal’s first daughter, has now added to the chaos confounding the fledgling cabinet of new Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal.