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  • Students to bring light to Nepali village

    Four UNL students and a partner living in Nepalplanned and raised money to install a hydroelectric generator in the Nepali village of ...

  • NC leader says parties involved in hefty preparations for November polls

    NC leader says parties involved in hefty preparations for November polls A senior leader of Nepali Congress has assured that the much-awaited election to the Constituent Assembly (CA) will be held within November this year. Krishna Sitaula, who is general secretary of Nepali Congress, informed that the four major parties have focused all their attention towards making necessary preparations ...

  • Nepal organises Sales Mission in South East Asia

    Nepal organises Sales Mission in South East Asia Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) in association with Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) and the Nepal Association of Tour Operators (NATO) organised a Sales Mission in four major cities of South East Asia, namely Bangkok, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Yangon from 14th to 17th May, 2013. The Sales Mission to South East Asia started on 14th May, in Bangkok, ...

  • Istanbul-Kathmandu direct flights from September

    Istanbul-Kathmandu direct flights from September Turkish Airlines, one of the leading European airlines, is set to start direct flights to Kathmandu from Istanbul from September 1. According to the airlines, it will operate four flights a week – Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday in Istanbul-Kathmandu route. The airlines will use A330-200 aircraft for the service in the route. Nepal ...

  • 13000 undocumented Nepali workers apply for exit permits

    13,000 undocumented Nepali workers apply for exit permits Around 13,000 Nepalis have filed applications at the Nepali mission in Saudi Arabia seeking exit permits in accordance with a recent Saudi announcement to grant amnesty to illegal workers. The news comes just three months after Saudi Labour Minister Adel Fakeih announced a plan to allow undocumented foreign workers to leave Saudi Arabia ...

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The Fast and the Furious

The Fast and the Furious is loud and dumb, but it's also entertaining and, at times, even exhilarating. But, most importantly, it earns that excitement the old-fashioned way. In a summer of CGI-heavy action movies in which actors run around battling with highly detailed three-dimensional cartoons, it's almost refreshing to see a flick in which virtually everything is real. ...

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  • Nepal Army soldier killed in action in Lebanon

    Nepal Army soldier killed in action in Lebanon The Army said on Sunday that a Nepali soldier working for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was killed on Thursday, May 16. The body of Sargent Deepak Thama, who died while fulfilling his duty, was brought to Nepal earlier on Sunday, said the army's Directorate of Public Relations. Established in 1978, UNIFIL is tasked ...

  • 64 climbers including first ever Saudi Arabian woman scale Mount Everest from Nepal

    This handout picture taken by Miura Dolphins on May 16, 2013 shows 80-year-old Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura (R), accompanied by his son Gota (L), leaving Base Camp to begin his ascent of Mount Everest in Nepal. Miura is trying to get back a Guinness World Record that he first held in 2003 when he became the oldest man to climb ...

  • China ‘crushing’ Tibetan dissident groups in Nepal

    Nepal a hub for their anti-China activities, Beijing appears to have taken to squeezing the Himalayan nation on the issue by using its development initiatives there as a counter-pressure tactic. China, which already boasts of a wide involvement in Nepal that covers all critical areas including defence, infrastructure building and cultural activities, is now focusing on taking up development ...

  • Landmark Kathmandu Bookstore Gutted by Fire

    By Friday afternoon all that remained of the Kathmandu landmark Pilgrims Book House was a scorched brick and cement shell with charred and sodden books covering the floor. Pilgrims was one of the world's great bookstores and probably the best in Asia. Specialists in Himalayan and South Asian books, they also carried a huge general selection and over 50,000 antiquarian titles and ...

  • Army clerk arrested for passing on classified data to ISI agent in Nepal

    Police in Jaipur, Rajasthan, have confirmed the arrest of an army staffer for allegedly passing on classified information to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Additional Director General of Police (Intelligence) Rajasthan Dalpat Singh Dinkar said the accused person has been identified as Bidyut Kumar Sinha, adding that he was detained on May 14.Dinkar said Sinha aged 43, was ...

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