Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday spoke to his Nepal counterpart K.P. Sharma Oli and expressed shock over the killing of a youth from Bihar in police firing in the Himalayan nation. Modi condemned the “unfortunate killing” and requested for details of the incident from Nepal. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Nepal PM K.P. […]
Nepal on Wednesday signed a MoU with Petro China in order to import all kinds of fuel from China, ending a long-held monopoly of buying fuel from the Indian Oil Corp (IOC). Nepal Oil Corp (NOC) and Petro China signed the pact in Beijing following an unofficial trade and fuel embargo from India against Nepal […]
Barely three weeks after a democratic federal constitution was promulgated in Nepal, Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli was on Monday sworn-in as the new prime minister heading an eight-member cabinet. President Ram Baran Yadav administered the oaths of office and secrecy to Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist) chairman Oli and his cabinet colleagues at […]
Nepal is inching towards a majority-based government after the Nepali Congress (NC) failed to garner enough support from other political parties to form a consensus-based government Sunday. A last ditch effort to form a consensus-based government with support of all 29 political parties in the house ended Sunday after the Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist […]
On the occasion of its 65th Republic Day, India Sunday gifted 20 ambulances and four buses to hospitals and charitable institutions in Nepal. At a public function held at the Indian embassy here, India’s Ambassdor Ranjit Rae hoisted the Tricolour and read out the message of President Pranab Mukherjee that stressed India’s support to peace, […]
The chairman of the Interim Election Council of Nepal, Khil Raj Regmi, Saturday evening summoned the first meeting of the Constituent Assembly Jan 22, ending a month-long row over who would call the meeting. The government decided to call the meeting 56 days after elections to the Constituent Assembly were held Nov 19. Nepal’s Constituent […]
Lashkar-e-Taiba bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda claimed Saturday that the Delhi Police did not arrest him in India but picked him up in Nepal. Tunda gave this information to Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Amit Bansal while seeking the court’s direction to the police to furnish the details of the 16 blast cases pending against him. According […]
Six Indians from Kolkata were killed when the jeep they were travelling in plunged into the Marsyangdi river in Nepal’s Tanahun district, some 150 km west of capital Kathmandu Tuesday night, police said. Five others, including the driver, who sustained serious injuries, are undergoing treatment in Kathmandu. The jeep was on way from the popular […]
Nepal’s anti-corruption body Monday ordered 35,000 government staff to pay cash penalty of Nepalese Rs.5,000 ($52) each for not submitting their property details, officials said. To make sure that the bureaucrats are not making money by foul means, the Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) requires government employees to make their property details […]