China has given $200 million as soft loan to Nepal for the development of the proposed infrastructure projects, including a 61 MW hydropower project.
 
Nepal's Finance Minister Surendra Pandey said that the Upper Trishuli power project which is proposed to be developed in the Nuwakot ...

Nepal's Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala, who is the daughter of Nepali Congress chief G P Koirala is now the Deputy Prime Minister of Nepal.
 
Sujata, 56, took the oath on Monday from the Prime Minister of Nepal, Madhav Kumar Nepal. She is the second woman Deputy Prime Minister after Shailja ...

Prime Minister of Nepal, Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal, has urged China for extending the Beijing-Lhasa railway line till Kathmandu.
 
“The economic ties between Nepal and China could be taken to a new height if the railway line that has reached up to Lhasa from mainland China could be ...

The British government has made the migration process of retired Gurkha soldiers from Nepal to Britain easier by opening the Gurkha Settlement Office (GSO) in Nepal on Monday. 
 
This GSO will extend a helping hand to the British Gurkha ex-servicemen who wish to spend the rest of their ...

US government led by Barack Obama has decided to provide a $205 million aid for Nepal. This will be used by Nepal for humanitarian crisis and peace measures.
 
These funds, which will be disbursed over a period of 5 years, by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), is meant for ...

Nepal SBI, the joint venture of State Bank of India in Nepal, will now be handling the Indian visa applications.
 
The new Indian Visa Service Centre located in Karpurdhara Marg, near to Indian embassy, was inaugurated by Indian ambassador Rakesh Sood on Sep 16.  The foreign tourists, ...

Inspired by India’s enforcing on the usage of permanent account number, Nepal’s government has initiated a campaign which will enforce the individual earners as well as institutions to own a PAN. This step has been taken by the Nepal government so that the tax collections can be ...

According to a UN report, the Nepalese political parties have been advised by the UN to put an end to the social inequality so that peace can be revived.
 
This appeared in the Nepal Human Development Report 2009, which was released in Kathmandu on Monday.
 
According to the report, ...

The UN Security Council has decided to extend its mission in Nepal by six months until January next year. The decision was taken through a vote by the Security Council members.
 
The UN mission in Nepal is extended to Jan 23, 2010.
 
"The peace process has stagnated to a ...

Some women from the countryside of Nepal have re-kindled the skills of reading and writing by translating Harry Potter into their native language.
 
Helen Sherpa, one among the five women who found the Sunbird Publishing House, told that this initiative was taken so that the children of ...

Within 72 hours of Indian foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon's visit to Nepal to give a push to the stagnating peace process, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal Wednesday expanded his cabinet for the third time, inducting the Terai parties that had remained deadlocked over the allocation of ...

Menon, who was scheduled to meet four ministers Sunday before departing for New Delhi, managed to hold talks with only Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala as the foreign ministry, relocated to the former royal palace recently, was away from the ministerial hub which lay under Maoist siege.

The ...

Poudel's election ends over six decades of dominance by the Koirala family, regarded as the Gandhi dynasty of the Himalayan republic.

Girija Prasad Koirala, the strong man of Nepali politics, five-time prime minister and the architect of the peace negotiations that led to the end of the Maoist ...

The 56-year-old communist leader Madhav Kumar Nepal was sworn-in as the new prime minister of Nepal on Monday (May 25). He took the oath of office and secrecy at the head of a three-member cabinet. Madhav Kumar Nepal who succeeded Maoist supremo Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda has to deal with the ...

Indian-origin leader of Unified Marxist Leninist (UML) party of Nepal, Madhav Kumar Nepal is expected to become the new prime minister of the country. In order to end the political deadlock in the country, the Nepalese president Ram Bran Yadav on Sunday (May 10) asked the parliament to choose a ...

The prime minister of Nepal Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda has resigned from his office following a row over the sacking of the army chief. While announcing his resignation on Monday (May 4), Prachanda blamed country's political parties and foreign powers for hampering his government. Yesterday the ...

The government of Nepal banned the screening of Akshay Kumar-featured Bollywood film 'Chandni Chowk to China' in the nation over Lord Buddha's birthplace controversy. According to reports, the people of Nepal are protesting heavily over a reference in the movie which claimed that India was the ...

Owing to the growing power crisis in Nepal and alleged unfair state laws, the private television stations of the country declared emergency. According to Television Broadcasters Nepal which controls the TV stations of the country, all private stations will stop their operations from midnight to 5 ...

Nepal's Maoist Prime Minister has temporarily reinstated a group of sacked Indian priests at the Himalayan nation's holiest Hindu Pashupatinath shrine after protests forced riot police to intervene.
 
The secular Maoists, who run the country after winning elections last year, ended centuries ...

In a bid to meet the energy requirements, Nepal has planned to import power from India. The Himalayan nation is facing acute scarcity of energy and it is on the verge of executing 16 hours daily blackout. Informing the media, the secretary at the Ministry of Water Resources, Shanker Koirala said ...

The winds of change that began sweeping through Nepal since 2006, transforming the world's only Hindu kingdom into a secular republic headed by former Maoist guerrillas, have now overtaken the biggest icon in the Himalayan nation - Lord Pashupatinath.
 
From next month, breaking away from a ...

In a move that undoubtedly put officials in New Delhi slightly more nervous, China is likely to provide a massive $100 million financial aid to Kathmandu. The decision came soon after the visit of India’s External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee to Nepal. China is seeking to improve its ...

The Himalayan Nation, Nepal is likely to get its new constitution by May 2010. Plan of new constitution was adopted last year after Nepal's main political party and Maoist rebels had signed a peace deal in 2006. The Maoists have emerged as the biggest political force in elections held for a ...

After India, it's Nepal's turn to ban cigarette smoking in public places. The government of Nepal will introduce a new law for banning smoking in public places of the country. In a statement issued to media, the deputy Prime Minister as well as the home minister of the Himalayan nation, Bamdev ...

Finally Charles Sobhraj who is languishing in Nepal jail has married to his Nepali sweetheart Nihita Biswas. The 64 year old Bikini Killer, as has been termed by media married to 20 year old Nihita Biswas in a sober ritual held inside the jail. On the occasion present were Nihita's mother and ...

At least 18 people have been killed when a passenger plane crashed on landing at a remote airfield in Nepal's Everest region on October 8, 2008. Report says that out of the total passengers killed majority were German tourists. The Yeti airlines aircraft caught fire when it crashed near the sloping ...

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is going on a two-day visit to Nepal this October. According to reports, Nepal's Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda has invited the UN chief to his country. Talking to media, the Nepalese Prime Minister informed that Ban Ki-Moon will arrive at the Tribhuvan ...

India and Nepal have agreed to revise much opposed Indo-Nepal Trade and Transit Treaty. Revision of the 58-year-old treaty which is fundamental governor of the bilateral relations would be done to develop Indo-Nepal bilateral relationship in new era under latest realities. Maoists, since their ...

Sunday, September 14, 2008 will see Nepal’s first Maoist Prime Minister, Mr Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ arriving in India for a five-day visit. India, on its part, is looking forward to utilizing this opportunity to bolster its relationship with the Himalayan nation. ...

Ahead of his visit to India on September 14, Nepal PM Prachanda has said that the historic 1950 Indo-Nepal trade and transit treaty needs review. Talking with BBC, the Maoist leader said that Nepal has now become a republic after big political changes, therefore the 1950 treaty needs to be ...