Kathmandu, Feb 18, During his lifetime he had wished to visit Nepal and Tibet twice but failed to do so. But now, in his 148th birth anniversary year, Swami Vivekananda, one of India’s most progressive monks who preached the religion of service to mankind, will reach out to the Himalayan republic, thanks to the efforts of a diehard disciple.
Kathmandu, Feb 15, With major changes sweeping through Nepal, all eyes here are on the maiden visit by Nepal’s first President Ram Baran Yadav to India from Monday, an event that will further cement ties between the government of India and Nepal’s second-largest party, the Nepali Congress (NC).
Kathmandu, Feb 10, Even as India’s ultra-right party, the Shiv Sena, went on a rampage in Indian film capital Mumbai, attacking the cinema halls offering advance booking for the upcoming Shah Rukh Khan starrer “My Name Is Khan”, the Nepal distributor of the film said he fears no such trouble in the Himalayan republic.
Kathmandu, Feb 10, Despite growing public pressure on the Nepal government, there is now little hope that the killers of controversial media tycoon Jamim Shah will ever be arrested, amid speculation that the sharpshooters had fled the country via the porous India-Nepal border.
Kathmandu, Feb 9, Two years after Ram Gopal Varma’s remake of the Bollywood classic “Sholay” suffered censors’ scissors in Nepal, the film director’s new release “Rann” has met with an entirely different response here, with top Maoist leaders calling it “inspiring”.
Kathmandu, Feb 8, Assisted by the UN and its partner agencies, Nepal’s former Maoist guerrillas Monday finally released the last of the child soldiers they had recruited in the course of their 10-year war to overthrow the royal dynasty.
Kathmandu, Feb 8, A former scalper from New Delhi’s Tilak Nagar who became Indian underworld don Chhota Rajan’s aide, has admitted responsibility for the audacious killing of Nepal’s controversial media tycoon Jamim Shah, shot dead in the capital’s VIP area Sunday, a report said.
Kathmandu, Feb 8, When did the father of the Indian nation Mahatma Gandhi watch his first film? Which movie was it and how did the vegetarian and boycotter of foreign goods like it? The answer to these questions come from across the border in Nepal.
Kathmandu, Feb 8, With Australia reporting the first attack on a Nepali student after a series of assaults on Indians, an education consultant in Nepal says the incidents should be regarded as criminal attacks and not racist.
Kathmandu, Feb 5, When Britain’s Prince Harry served in Afghanistan last year, his royal skin was protected by Gurkha bodyguards, the valiant and fiercely loyal mountain warriors from Nepal.