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 ...

The Maoists, demanding a 10 per cent bonus, have indefinitely shut down the plant of the Dabur Company in Nepal's Terai region. It was only recently that they had also stopped the yearly beauty pageant that the subsidiary of the Indian ayurvedic giant in Nepal sponsored.
 
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Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav said that Nepalese PM Prachanda will visit India in September, before UN General Assembly meeting in New York. Yadav said that Prachanda is very eager to come to India. He informed that request has already been made to Indian Government to fix dates for the same ...

Nepal's first Maoist Prime Minister Prachanda promises to follow Panchsheel Principle in its external affairs with neighboring states. His latest move has come at a telecast message where he spoke for 15 minutes and delivered his maxims on Maoist's foreign policy. He said that that his government's ...

Ex-Nepal king Gyanendra will utilize his time writing his autobiography. According to reports, he even has started using his personal computer for the purpose and has written some pages too. Incidentally, recently, Maoist forces in Nepal who came to rule Nepal, this time with ballot power dethroned ...

Pushp Kumar Dahal alias Prachanda, 53 year old Maoist revolutionary, has become democratically elected Prime Minister of Nepal. Another Maoist leader Baburam Bhattarai termed the election of Prachanda a ‘golden dawn’ for Nepal and Nepal people; he compared Mr Dahal to Napoleon and great ...

Ram Baran Yadav of the Nepali Congress has been elected as the first president of Nepal, the new Himalayan republic. Ram Baran Yadav defeated Ram Raja Prasad Singh, the candidate of Maoist party. With the election of Mr Ram Baran Yadav, the long standoff over the presidential election between the ...

Nepal’s Maoists quit government on Friday, June 20, 2008 as the interim government headed by Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala did not pave way for constituting the new government, even after tasting defeat at the hands of the Maoists two months ago. 

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The renowned German politician Adolf Hitler had once gifted a Mercedes Benz to Nepali King Tribhuvan, the grandfather of Nepal’s recently deposed king Gyanendra. Following Gyanendra’s evacuation from his royal Narayanhiti place, it has been decided to convert the place into a museum. ...

The 240-year old monarchy in Nepal finally came to an end on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 as ex-King Gyanendra evacuated his royal palace and handed over to the state his crown, sceptre and throne. As the last King of Nepal ‘Gyanendra’ set out to live the life of a commoner, the doors of ...

The newly elected government in Nepal which was determined on ousting ex-King Gyanendra from the throne recently, has now almost conceded to his request of granting him the Nagarjuna Palace for accommodation. It was reported by the Kantipur daily on Wednesday 4 June that the key leaders of the ...

In Nepal, one can now look forward to getting a transitory feel of what it must have been like living in its opulent centuries-old royal palaces. This is because Nepal’s Maoists on Sunday, June 1, pronounced that King Gyanendra’s Narayanhity Palace as well as another 240-year-old Shah ...

A top minister in Nepal has revealed that a government panel has started looking into the details of assets and properties of the deposed King Gyanendra, two days after the monarchy in Nepal was abolished. The nation’s media has reported that the Narayanhity royal palace has a rich collection ...

The newly-elected government of Nepal on Friday, May 30, issued a formal notice to King Gyanendra directing him to vacate the royal palace within the next two weeks. An official from the palace, on grounds of anonymity, has revealed that King Gyanendra is now preparing to shift to his own private ...

Newly elected constituent assembly in Nepal has decided to abolish Shah Dynasty with overwhelming majority. The 601 member assembly meeting was convened at Birendra International Convention Center. The motion was moved by Home Minister Krishna Prasad Sitola on behalf of Prime Minister Girija Prasad ...

Min Bahadur Sherchan, who is 76 years old, has succeeded in winning the distinction of being the oldest citizen to scale world’s highest peak, Mount Everest. Sherchan has broken the earlier record set by a 71-year-old Japanese man named Kat Katsusuke Yanagisawa, a school teacher, who climbed ...

Nepal’s beleaguered king Gyanendra has moved out of the Narayanhity Royal Palace at the heart of Kathmandu to another palace on the outskirts of the capital city. The vacating of the royal palace has taken place just days ahead of the Maoists ultimatum to quit the Narayanhity Royal Palace, ...

A group of nearly 500 Tibetan protestors, most of them women, were arrested by the police in Nepal on Sunday 11 May just before what would have turned out to be the first all-women rally against the Chinese atrocities in Tibet. These Tibetan exiles were participating in a peaceful rally. A police ...

Maoist leader Prachanda said that the new coalition government would seek to strengthen Nepal\'s ties with India. He said that the government would work hard to establish \'new unity on a new basis\' with India. It is to be noted that the Communist Part of Nepal Maoist (CPN-M) emerged as the single ...

The forthcoming Maoists-led government in Nepal is planning to finally seal the Indo-Nepal Peace and Friendship treaty. Prachanda, Communist Party of Nepal head, remarked a day ago that Nepal’s past policy towards the 1950 treaty remains unchanged. The Maoists wish to completely ...

The Communist Party of Nepal Maoist (CPN-M) has emerged as the single largest party after the results of the 601 member special assembly was declared on Thursday. The polls were conducted on April 10, 2008.The Maoist have won 220 seats in the assembly. However, the Maoists failed to gain the ...

King Gyanendra of Nepal on Monday 21 April has angrily refuted widespread speculation about his going on an exile after the former Maoist rebels emerged victorious in the country’s landmark elections.  A statement was issued from the royal palace of Nepal called media reports about King ...

After a remarkable victory in the constituent assembly, Communist Party of Nepal supremo and former Maoist rebel Prachanda has formally announced that he will be heading the next government in Nepal. On Saturday, April 19, 2008, the CPN head remarked at Katmandu that he will present himself as the ...

Communist Party of Nepal (CPN), second-in-command Baburam Bhattarai issued an ultimatum of four weeks to King Gyanendra to leave the Narayanhiti Royal Palace. Bhattarai who is set to become the country’s next Prime Minister stated on Thursday, April 17, 2008 that the end of monarchy will be ...

As his party continued to look forward to forming the next government in Nepal, Prachanda, the leader of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) has said that he would forge a new relationship with India. The Maoists won 61 out of the 112 seats for which results have been announced and they were ...

Luck continues to favor former rebels, the Maoists on the third day (Sunday 13 April) of continued vote-counting post Nepal’s recent historic election. This, in turn, lessens the chance of winning for Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala\'s coalition government in Nepal. That the former ...

The Maoists are all set to take a lead in the landmark Thursday, April 10 Constituent Assembly elections which will finally say good bye to monarchy in Nepal. The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) is surging ahead with winning 25 seats of the 47 results announced so far. The CPN (M) is headed by ...

The Maoists, who happen to be the former rebel group of Nepal, are found to have taken an early lead in the recently held historic election. Of the announced seven results till Saturday 12 April, the Maoists had won five seats. That they were leading in over half of 102 constituencies where ...