July 21, 2010 Melbourne: A Nepalese belonging to royal family has been accused of raping a woman who was sleeping in her Sydney house while the accused came to deliver a takeaway Indian meal. The 21-year-old Amit Hamal appeared in a local court yesterday following charges of having sexual relations with the woman without her consent on July 16. Hamal's bail was denied and the case was adjourned till July ... Read More

Saturday May 29, 2010, Kathmandu Nepal's Prime Minister agreed to resign after the former communist rebels supported his proposal to extend the term of parliament so it can draft a new constitution to end years of civil war and strife. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal told reporters early on Saturday he would resign soon, but did not elaborate. "We have gained more time which we need to utilise ... Read More

Kathmandu, May 17: The Unified CPN (Maoist) has decided to promulgate a Constitution drafted by the party from the streets on May 29. A politburo meeting of the party held at party headquarters on Sunday decided to promulgate its Constitution unilaterally if a consensus is not forged before the Constituent Assembly's (CA) term expires. They decided not to vote for CA term extension if new government under Maoist-leadership is not formed. ... Read More

Apr 18, 2010 KATHMANDU: Ahead of the summit of the SAARC heads of state in Bhutan, where the eight South Asian member countries are expected to discuss regional cooperation, the bad blood between nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan continues, causing the Pak delegation to make a detour through Nepal. Though Nepal and Bhutan do not share a border while India does, yet, following the time-honoured tradition since Indo-Pak feuds escalated in ... Read More

April 12, 2010 Apparently under pressure from Maoists and other parties, the Nepal government has decided to scrap a controversial order that allowed printing of Machine Readable Passport from an Indian government security press. After a cabinet meeting, Communication Minister and government spokesman Shanker Pokharel told reporters yesterday that the government has decided to withdraw the decision to print the passport in an Indian security press. The Nepal government had recently decided to ... Read More

Tuesday, March 30, 2010 New Delhi: China’s last minute bid to beat India to get an order from Nepal for machine-readable passports (MRPs) has been thwarted by the Himalayan country’s prime minister (PM). But the move means Madhav Nepal will have to face a parliamentary accounts panel for questioning. Nepal’s cabinet decided to give the contract to the Nashik-based Security Printing and Minting Corporation of India, a public sector company, which ... Read More

April 1 bodes to be no laughing matter for Nepal with the fledgling republic heading for a passport disaster as the ruling parties continue to bicker over a bid by an Indian company to print new passports. As per the norms of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), Nepal needs to switch over to the more progressive machine-readable passports by April 1. If the government fails to make the leap, it ... Read More

Over 50,000 Nepalis still remain displaced despite the end of the armed conflict in 2006 5 March 2010 – The top United Nations political official is heading to India next week, followed by a visit to Nepal to discuss the country’s stalled peace process, it was announced today. Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs B. Lynn Pascoe will be in India on 9 March for a one-day meeting with Government officials for discussions on ... Read More

New Delhi Tuesday, Mar. 02, 2010 Nepal may be most famous for its majestic Himalayan peaks, but much of the country is a vast stretch of plains, the terai, that have long been underdeveloped and largely ignored by the two powers on either side. No longer. India has just launched a plan to spend $361 million over the next several years on roads and rail links in the ... Read More

Nepal’s former Maoist guerrillas have accused India of instigating anti-China activities in Nepal. The Maoist mouthpiece, the Janadisha daily, yesterday said Nepal was becoming the playground of supporters of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan leader whose government-in-exile runs from Inddia’s Dharamshala town. The Maoist report came after a spurt in the number of Tibetan refugees trying to escape from China-controlled Tibet to Dharamshala through Nepal. In the last seven months, ... Read More

Updated : Friday February 26 , 2010 KATMANDU: Nepal's major political parties have pledged they won't call general strikes or road blockades in 2011, which the Himalayan country plans to celebrate as Nepal Tourism Year. A communist insurgency ended in 2006, but political instability has continued. Political groups regularly protest with strikes that stop transportation and shut markets and schools. Prime Minister Madhav ... Read More

Fri, Feb 19 05:19 PM After the recent agreement with Bangladesh to ensure connectivity in South Asia on the eastern side, India took another such initiative with Nepal. During the visit of the President of Nepal, Dr Ram Baran Yadav to India a new air services agreement was signed between the two countries on February 16. A Memorandum of Understanding was also signed ... Read More