Want to save Mt Everest, the universal symbol of grandeur, toughness and adventure? Then eat an apple...

Given only a couple more weeks by the Maoists and unable to table the budget in parliament due to their opposition, Nepal's beleaguered Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Friday expanded his cabinet in a surprise move, inducting two more...

King of pop Michael Jackson's untimely death last week spurred fresh public interest in him worldwide. Now an enterprising restaurant in Kathmandu, a city that was not in the singer's ken, is hoping to cash in on...

Consumers continue to face rising prices A new report by the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) says consumer prices rose by 12.9 percent in the past 10 months of the current fiscal year, compared to 9.2...

Kathmandu, Jul 3 : Nepal Police have arrested two youths with a Chinese pistol from Chure forest in Triyuga Municipality-11, Udaypur district in eastern Nepal, local media reports said here...

Police reveal more details on Khyati murder Police have revealed more details on Khyati murder case after a two-week long investigation. At a press conference organised on Friday, police said they...

Nepal wins team championship in Budo Kaido Karate Nepal has clinched team championship award in the 4th Indo-Nepal Bir Ganesh Man memorial full-contact Budo Kaido Martial Arts championship. In...

PM inducts two more ministers Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has expanded his cabinet for the fifth time Friday by inducting two more ministers. Rajendra Mahato from Sadbhawana Party and Prem...

PM apprises Prez of Maoist demands Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal called on President Dr Ram Baran Yadav Friday afternoon and apprised the latter of the Maoist demands about the ongoing...

Six people have been arrested after a turf war over what is known as Nepal's `herbal Viagra' erupted in a remote northern district, resulting in the death of seven villagers, police said on Friday. ...

NEW DELHI, July 3 (RIA Novosti) - At least nine people died in rural Nepal in a fight that broke out when groups gathering the valuable caterpillar fungus clashed in the mountains near Tibet,...

Parliament to resume from Sunday The opposition Unified CPN (Maoist), after the consecutive meeting of its central secretariat and with the smaller parties Friday morning agreed to allow resuming...

Increase in Saptakoshi water flow raises alarm bells The water flow in the Saptakoshi river (also called Kosi river) has suddenly increased in the past few days due to the onset of monsoon season,...

Govt to form 41 new municipalities within 100 days Local Development Minister Purna Kumar Sherma has said the government will form 41 additional municipalities. Speaking at an interaction programme...

KATHMANDU, July 3 (Xinhua) -- A helpdesk for screening the pandemic A/H1N1 virus is being set up at the Tatopani Customs at the Nepal-China border, local media reported on Friday. Dr. Senendra Raj...

KATHMANDU: Nepal's first gay lawmaker has hailed Delhi High Court's ruling legalising homosexuality and said that it will give positive message in the entire South Asia region regarding the rights ...

Koirala hopes Maoists would join the govt Nepali Congress president Girija Prasad Koirala has expressed hope that the opposition Unified CPN (Maoist) would join the UML-led coalition government to...

Nepal emerges victorious in ACC Women’s T20 tournament Nepal has emerged victorious in the first match of the ACC Women’s Under 19 20-20 Cricket tournament. Nepal beat Iran with 64 runs...

KATHMANDU: When the power cuts that frequently plague Nepal were at their worst this winter, one of the biggest frustrations for many people was missing their favourite television soap...

Manang villagers kill seven Yarcha-pickers from Gorkha Villagers of Nar VDC in Manang have killed seven youths from Kerauja VDC of Gorkha, who had gone to Nar area to pick Yarchagumba, a Himalayan...

Maoists to allow House for credit bill The Unified CPN (Maoist), which has been obstructing the House since over a month protesting against the President's move to block the erstwhile government's...

NTV employees protest appointment of executive chairman Nepal Television Employees´ Union (NTEU) have staged demonstration against the government decision to appoint Kundan Aryal as the...

KATHMANDU: A year after it created havoc in southern Nepal and Bihar, killing hundreds of people and leaving more than three million homeless, Bihar’s sorrow the Kosi is expanding again due to...

) Ceremony at the Gyuto Ramoche monastery, his temporary residence near Dharamsala, India, on Friday, June 26, 2009. The 17th Karmapa, one of the most revered Tibetan Buddhist lamas and head of Kagyu...

Kathmandu, July 2 : Three days after Nepal reported its first cases of swine flu, health officials Thursday said the Influenza A (H1N1) virus has also been detected in two...

Kathmandu, July 2 : Former Nepal Prime Minister and Unified CPN (Maoist) Chairman Prachanda has claimed that a new government under the leadership of his party would be formed within next...

The former royal family of Nepal is to celebrate the wedding of a young man who was adopted almost 20 years ago by the royal palace, a Nepali language tabloid Ghatana Ra Bichar ("Event and...

By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, July 1 : Fretting at the resumption of anti-China protests in Nepal by Tibetan refugees, Beijing has sent a delegation to Kathmandu to seek support from the new...

Nepal 's mountainous west Thursday, burying homes and killing at least nine people, a ministry official said. The government was preparing to send rescue teams to the three affected areas, but could...

By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, July 1 : They have been under continuous fire from the Maoists as well as royalists and nationalists for allegedly overstepping their roles and intervening in the...

By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, July 1 : He may no longer be the all-powerful king who was obeyed unquestioningly by his subjects who regarded him to be an incarnation of Hindu god Vishnu, but Nepal's...

Staff at Nepal's main international airport are to be issued with trousers without pockets, in an attempt to wipe out rampant bribe-taking.The country's anti-corruption body said there had been...

video Senior leader of Unified CPN (Maoist) Mohan Baidhya have accused other political parties of trying to establish presidential rule in the country. Inability of the UML-led coalition government...

DAMAK, 2 July 2009 (IRIN) - More than a thousand Nepalese women married to Bhutanese refugees fear they may be left out of the third country resettlement programme and end up separated from their...

Yadav roots for national consensus govt Madhesi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) chairman Upendra Yadav has said that there is no alternative to a national consensus government to bail the country out from...

Govt makes political appointments A cabinet meeting Wednesday has made a number of political appointments in government agencies. According to Minister for Information and Communication Shankar...

Swine-flu detected in two more The world pandemic Swine Flu Influenza A (H1N1) has been detected in two more persons Thursday raising the flu-toll to five. According to information given by Laxmi...

CA divided over lingua franca, use of term people's war Lawmakers from different parties continued to differ on the lingua franca and proposed use of the term "people's war" during...

Girija calls for consensus, statue within timeframe Former prime minister and president of Nepali Congress Girija Prasad Koirala repeated his calls for politics of consensus and end of all...

UNSC ambassadors call on UNMIN chief Ambassadors of members of the UN Security Council (China, France, Japan, Russia, United Kingdom and United States) met with the Representative of the...

Landslides claim six lives in Kaski and Mugu At least six people have died and two more have gone missing in separate land-slide related incidents in various parts of the country caused by ...

Kamaiyas to be rehabilitated within six months The government has decided to rehabilitate freed Kamaiyas living in various districts within six months. A cabinet meeting held Wednesday has decided...

Maoist students abuse campus chief Cadres of Maoist affiliated student union All Nepal National Independent Students Union-Revolutionary (ANNISU-R) in Ilam have abused their campus chief by...

Local school operated by HPL achieves 100% pass rate in SLC Khimti Project School (KPS), a school that started fourteen years ago with assistance from Himal Power Limited (HPL) has achieved 100%...

KATHMANDU, July 2 (Xinhua) -- Nepali Epidemiology and Disease Control Division (EDCD) at the Department of Health Services has started a media campaign to spread awareness about A/H1N1 in several...

Former Prime Minister and Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (UCPN-M) Chairman Prachanda has claimed that his party would form a national government within next one-and-half month, The Rising...

12 Nepalis missing after ship capsizes off Doha coast Twelve Nepali workers are among 29 persons who have gone missing after a ship operated by a UAE based group capsized about two nautical miles...

37 Nepali students, one scholar receive European scholarships Thirty seven Nepalese students and one scholar are among the 10,000 awardees of the Erasmus Mundus scholarship for the academic year ...

KATHMANDU: A wedding a day keeps the blues at bay. That’s the prescription Nepal’s last king Gyanendra seems to have adopted. Compelled to leave power politics in 2006, when his army-backed...

Biggest hydropower project in limbo The country's biggest hydroelectric project (if constructed) Nau Mure has remained neglected for the past 20 years, national news agency RSS reported Wednesday....