Mounting pressure on King Gyanendra to abdicate, the Maoists have asked the monarch to vacate his palace immediately or face stern action including banishment, a demand which the Nepali Congress of Prime Minister G P Koirala has refused to endorse.
“As the country has already become a republic through the Parliament declaration, King Gyanendra should immediately […]
NEPAL’S parliament has voted in favour of abolishing the centuries-old monarchy and turning the Himalayan nation into a republic.
Speaker Subash Nembwang said more than two-thirds of parliament had voted in favour of amending an interim constitution to end the monarchy after an agreement by the main political parties had been reached during the week.
The vote […]
Nepal’s former communist rebels said Sunday they were set to rejoin the government in a move that would end the Himalayan nation’s political crisis three months after the ex-guerrillas walked out of a ruling coalition.
The former rebels, widely known as the Maoists, said they decided to rejoin the interim coalition after the country’s seven main […]
Rescuers searched for a third day as 26 people remained missing after the collapse of a bridge spanning the Bheri River in western Nepal, police said.
Sixteen bodies have been recovered — the majority of them of women and children.
“Today we will search for the missing in the river with rafts,” police superintendent Bahadur Jang Malla […]
Fifteen persons were killed, 33 injured and over 100 went missing when a suspension bridge at Suwaghat over Bheri River, linking Mehelkuna and Dahachaur, collapsed today.
The bridge was overcrowded with pilgrims and collapsed when pilgrims who were heading to attend the annual poornima fair in Suwaghat were passing the bridge at around 2 pm today. […]
Leading the “Mechi-Mahakali Awareness Campaign”, the YCL (Young Communist League) cadres have arrived in the district of Banke, Saturday, December 22, 2007. The YCL, a Nepal-Maoist youth affiliate, has led the campaign with the goal of creating awareness among the mass for the preservation of nationalism and the establishment of a republican order.The contingent of […]
With its political parties failing to provide good governance and hold elections, and the Maoists continuing with violence despite signing a peace pact, Nepal’s gay community has emerged as the only winners of the year that saw the country suffering from a series of dismal failures.
The most remarkable gain for the homosexual, lesbian and transgender […]
It was not third time lucky for Charles Sobhraj, once the master of New Delhi’s Tihar Jail, whose final appeal in the only murder case that sent him to prison for life in a career in crime spanning nearly two decades and several countries, once again ended inconclusively on Wednesday.
The 63-year-old, who had been hoping […]
Nepal’s government may agree in principle to abolish the monarchy in a deal to resolve a political deadlock with Maoist former rebels, but implement the decision only after fresh elections, a top minister said on Friday.
The Maoists quit the government in September demanding an immediate end to monarchy, a move that forced an indefinite postponement […]
The 22nd anniversary of the signing of the charter for establishing the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) is being celebrated throughout the SAARC region Saturday.
According to SAARC Secretariat based in the Nepali capital Kathmandu, the charter was signed during the first-ever summit meeting of the heads of state or government held in Dhaka, […]
