ISLAMABAD: Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove material considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country’s ...

LONDON: The British press on Sunday hailed the heroics of Didier Drogba in helping Chelsea win the Champions League and took pleasure in noting that ...

DAMASCUS: A roadside bomb has exploded in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital as the chief of the U.N. observers was visiting. No casualties were ...

TRIPOLI: Lebanese soldiers shot dead a Sunni cleric and a second member of a Lebanese political alliance against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in northern Lebanon ...

LONDON: Kanye West doesn’t wear the trousers in his new relationship, reported British daily The Sun on Saturday. His girlfriend Kim Kardashian has been barking orders ...

KATHMANDU: A group led by a local leader of Madhesi Janadhikari Forum attacked the house of Nepali Congress Central Working Committee member Bimalendra Nidhi, also ...

ILAM: A delegation of tea entrepreneurs of USA visited two orthodox (organic) tea factories based in east Ilam on Sunday. The 10-member delegation led by Executive ...

The daily life across the nation was hit hard as of strikes called by NEFIN and INJSC halt transportation along with education institutions and industries

The situation at Reporters Club got tense on Sunday as NEFIN General Secretary Aang Kaji Sherpa said that they would ‘finish off’ journalists

The Leveson inquiry has introduced the previously strange notion that newspapers are accountable in ways that go beyond market forces

Peace and Reconstruction Minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi on Saturday urged the NEFIN to call off their ongoing strike and sit for talks.

The talks between the three major parties and the Samyukta Loktantrik Madhesi Morcha (SLMM) scheduled for Sunday morning has been put off.

Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai on Sunday morning administered oath of office and secrecy to three ministers at the presence of President Dr Ram Baran Yadav.

Rautes, who are living in forests in Tulsipur, are all set to stage a sit-in in front of the Area Administration Office, Tulsipur on Sunday, ...

nepalnewsDotcom: Bandh enforced by indigenous nationalities demanding identity-based federalism paralyses life nationwide: http://t.co/xZOjLCaZ

nepalnewsDotcom: Bandh deprives 90,000 children from their right to education: http://t.co/vS5zsJkh

nepalnewsDotcom: Five arrested with weapons from Rajbiraj: http://t.co/QAbhRW0O

nepalnewsDotcom: Goodwill rally organised in Pokhara to promote social harmony: http://t.co/1SKRQnQ3

nepalnewsDotcom: House endorses 12th amendment to Interim Constitution to ensure constitution by May 27 deadline: http://t.co/28eGyNlb

The final days of constitution drafting has turned the nation into a battleground

Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai reached Siraha’s Aurahi VDC on Wednesday which was struck by tragedy that has engulfed six wards of the ...

Less than 24 hours after the parties declared a historic agreement

Despite the deal on the constitution we face the twin dangers of a demagogue president presiding over a country disintegrating into inter-ethnic

The nationwide bandh (shutdown) enforced by Indigenous Nationalities Joint Struggle Committee to press their demands for identity/ethnicity-based federalism has crippled life across the country on ...

Prime Minister Dr. Baburam Bhattarai expanded his cabinet by inducting three more ministers on Sunday. Nepalnews.com, (www.nepalnews.com) is a leading Internet destination dedicated to bring you ...

Round up of the major headlines in Nepali media for May 20 2012. Nepalnews.com, (www.nepalnews.com) is a leading Internet destination dedicated to bring you news, events, ...

Speaking at a mass gathering organised by Newa Swayatta Rajya Manka Sangharsa Samiti in Kathmandu Saturday, leaders from Newar community said federal provinces must ...

Top leaders of the major political parties- UCPN (Maoist), Nepali Congress and CPN-UML held meeting this morning at Prime Minister’s official residence in Baluwatar to ...

General strike freezes Nepal as constitution deadline loomsIBNLive.comBy Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU ...

Firstpost General strike freezes Nepal as ...

Strike in Nepal; many press vehicles damagedZee NewsKathmandu: At least half ...

36 in Nepal make final push to Qomolongma summitChina DailyKATHMANDU – ...

Police detain 52 protesters in Nepal as vehicles, journalists attackedWashington PostKATMANDU, ...

KATHMANDU, May 20 (Xinhua) — Another general strike has paralyzed life across Nepal along with violence, vandalism and manhandling of journalists on Sunday. This is ...

KATMANDU, Nepal — An official says police in Nepal have clashed with protesters using violence to enforce a general strike, detaining at least 52 of ...

Kathmandu, May 20 (PTI) Nepal”s Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai today expanded his Cabinet for the third time since forming a national unity government earlier this ...

Mumbai, May 20 — In the winter of 1978, Hemanta Mishra led the king of Nepal deep into the country’s Chitwan forest and helped him ...

NEW DELHI: The India tour of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton earlier this week again triggered a flurry of discussions on centre-state relationship and ...

काठमाडौ । व्यवस्थापिका संसदको बैठक आज पनि बस्दै छ । बैठक दिउँसो ३ बजेका लागि बोलाइएको छ । संसदको अवरोध हिजो खुलेपछि बैठक सुचारु हुन ...

काठमाडौ । सरकारले मन्त्रालयको हालको सङ्ख्या २७ मा नबढ्नेगरी दुईवटा नयाँ मन्त्रालय थप गर्ने निर्णय गरेको छ । मन्त्रिपरिषद्को शुक्रबार बसेको बैठकले सहरी विकास र ...

काठमाडौ । व्यवस्थापिका संसद्को बैठकको अवरोध खुलाउने विषयमा वृहत् मधेसी मोर्चासँग कुनै पनि सम्झौता नगरिएको राजनीतिक दलका नेताहरूले स्पष्ट पार्नुभएको छ । बैठकपछि नेकपा (एमाले)का ...

काठमाडौ । परराष्ट्र सचिव दुर्गाप्रसाद भट्टराईले नेपालका लागि भारतका राजदूत जयन्तप्रसादसँग वीरगञ्जस्थित भारतीय महावाणिज्य दूतावासका कन्सुलर एसडी मेहताले दिएको अभिव्यक्तिबारे जानकारी लिनुभएको छ । नेपाल–भारत ...

लोकतान्त्रिक मधेसी मोर्चासहित प्रमुख तीन राजनीतिक दलको बैठकले संविधान लेखनको क्रममा देखिएका सबै विवादित विषयमा सहमति जुटाएको छ । प्रधानमन्त्री निवास बालुवाटारमा बसेको बैठकले शासकीय ...

Kabita Parajuli interviews Indian photographer Satish Sharma.

Rohini Hensman on the cartoon controversy that shook the Indian Parliament.

Brennan O’Connor on Burma's reforms and the Kachin people. [Photo Feature]

Dhaka’s latest slum demolition shows the full scale of the Bangladeshi government’s callousness and ineptitude.

"Back in 1856 when … the name ‘Everest’ was proposed … it was hoped 'that Mt Everest would become a household word among civilised nations.'" ...

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Gulf Times Rota adopts sports approach ...

AFC U-14 Festival competition startsHimalayan TimesAsian Football Confederation (AFC) Vice-president and ...

FIA chief Todt excited to see youth involvementHimalayan TimesTodt, who arrived ...

All Share ServicesSalonKATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A 73-year-old Japanese woman has ...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) – A parliamentary panel cleared the way for a Chinese company to build a $1.6 billion hydroelectric plant in Nepal, the Himalayan republic’s ...

By Karan Shrestha – For the development of Electricity Transmission, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Norway agreed to provide US $ 100 Million aid to ...

KATHMANDU: Nepalese Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai today invited Indian businessmen to invest in this country’s hydropower sector and promised to create a conducive environment for ...

KATHMANDU, March 7: Kuwait government has offered to develop 30 MW Budi Ganga Hydropower Project in the far-western region on grant assistance to help Nepal ...

SHABDA GYANWALI Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can bring great advantage to the host country. It fuels economic growth, helps reduce poverty, creates employment opportunities and ...

The 5th NRN European Regional Meeting (ERM) is going to be held on 1st – 3rd June in Amsterdam, the Non-Resident Nepali Association’s National Coordination ...

KATHMANDU: The one and a half year old Mutual Fund Regulation 2067 will go through an amendment to simplify the set up of funds even ...

KATHMANDU: The Election Commission (EC) has formed a seven-member study panel under the leadership of Secretary Shankar Prasad Koirala to report on the feasibility of ...

KATHMANDU: The Non-Resident Nepali Associations (NRN) in different countries in the world have stressed that the Nepali ambassadors and embassies in foreign countries should act ...

KATHMANDU: Brihat Investments has concluded its sixth certified Real Estate Marketing Agents course. “In the next 10 years, demand for proper housing units will increase ...

Fifteen people, including the two pilots, were killed when an Agni Air plane crashed on Monday while attempting to land at Pokhara airport in northern ...

The effort to confront cholera in Haiti was muddled by the United Nations’ apparent role in setting ...

Carlos Soria plans to have climbed all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter mountains by next spring.

The fate of the Maoist fighters, who had been living in encampments under guard for the past six years, has been a key sticking point ...

In developing countries, methane derived from the feces of domestic animals can provide both valuable fuel and improved sanitation.

By Prajwal Shrestha The leaders of the “gang-of-three plus Madheshis” have agreed to promulgate an ...

By Prajwal ShresthaThe constitution is yet ...

By Pushpa Raj Pradhan

By Prajwal Shrestha The government, which was seen reluctant in observing the ...

By Pushpa Raj Pradhan At a time when the final deadline, 27 May, is coming nearer and nearer, the ...