Nepal News

India-Nepal trade pacts to be signed next week

India and Nepal will sign a revised trade treaty and an agreement to control unauthorised trade from a third country in Kathmandu next week, nearly two months after the two neighbours initialled the pacts during Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal's official visit to New Delhi in August.6:02 PM on October 21

China says it's not at loggerheads with India

Despite media reports about a new cold war growing between South Asian giants India and China over territory, Beijing says it is not at loggerheads with New Delhi but would seek better ties so that Asia can take the reins of world leadership from the US.4:08 AM on October 21

Nepal's ex-king gets a festive reprieve

Stripped of his crown and compelled to leave his ancestral palace, Nepal's last king Gyanendra however had a reprieve this festive season with the apex court in the country preventing a bid to make him vacate his current home.10:02 PM on October 20

China says it's not at loggerheads with India

Despite media reports of growing border tension between India and China, Beijing says it is not at loggerheads with New Delhi but would seek better ties so that Asia can take the reins of world leadership from the US.8:08 PM on October 20

China projects Kashmir as a separate country

Besides issuing separate visas to Indian passport holders from Jammu and Kashmir, China is also projecting the disputed territory as an independent country in other ways.6:02 PM on October 20

China projecting Kashmir as a separate country?

Besides issuing separate visas to Indian passport holders from Jammu and Kashmir, an issue that has irked New Delhi, China is now showing the state as if it is an independent country.4:08 PM on October 20

Rights abuse reports surface on Nepal's festival of lights

As Nepal Friday began celebrating its five-day festival of lights, the merry-making was marred by human rights groups resurrecting tales of unpunished killings and torture and accusing the coalition government of failing to provide justice.1:20 AM on October 20

World's 'most wanted' criminals making Nepal their home

The man trying to cross into India through the Kakarbhitta border check post in eastern Nepal's Jhapa district caught the attention of police though he presented a valid passport.3:30 PM on October 14

Last male bastion - panipuri vendor - falls in Nepal

After an armed revolution transformed the world's only Hindu kingdom Nepal into a secular republic, now a pair of entrepreneurs have quietly ushered in a socio-cultural revolution - with girls selling panipuri.11:01 AM on October 14

Nepal court admits first case against former royals

For the first time in Nepal's history, its former royal family has been slapped with a law suit by a common law wife, who is now seeking her share of property.12:31 PM on October 13

Koirala's daughter becomes Nepal's deputy PM

The political complexities in Nepal are set to take a new turn with the new government of Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Monday deciding to appoint the daughter of former premier Girija Prasad Koirala as its second deputy prime minister.6:31 PM on October 12

Nepal Muslims criticise government's Haj 'ban'

After protests by Buddhist monks against the Nepal government's alleged intervention in their religion, now the Muslim community is in an uproar over the bid to control the number of devotees making the annual pilgrimage - Haj - to Saudi Arabia's holy city Mecca, warning to take to streets in protest.3:00 PM on October 12

Nepal's child soldier release plan in disarray

The new Nepal government's plan to rehabilitate Maoist child soldiers and other ineligible fighters is heading towards an impasse with the former guerrillas refusing to free them till their demands are met.1:30 PM on October 12

Prachanda on China visit for better ties

While his party has kept parliament paralysed for nearly four months and refused to release child soldiers despite repeated urgings by the government and the international community, the chief of Nepal's former Maoist guerrillas, Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, will be embarking on a week-long China visit Sunday to better ties.2:30 PM on October 10

Nepal Maoists disapprove of Nobel for German author

Nepal's former Maoist guerrillas have denounced the award of the 2009 Nobel Prize in literature to German author Herta Mueller by the Swedish Academy Thursday, saying it reflected the institution's growing bias towards the communists.4:00 PM on October 09