Nepal Police arrested Rishi Dhamala, president of Reporters' Club, for his close links with a terrorist outfit engaged in serial blasts across Nepal. Police on Tuesday evening picked up Dhamala for his closed links with Ranvir Sena, which vows to transform Nepal as a Hindu Kingdom. The arrest was confirmed on Wednesday afternoon.

At a time when Nepal is facing acute power shortage, some three dozen remote villages in western part of the country are enjoying round-the-clock electricity supply, thanks to the indigenous means of power generation.

Bollywood actor John Abraham, recently voted as the sexiest Asian man of year by the British paper Eastern Eye, has surprised many with his choice for the sexiest Indian woman. In an interview to the men's magazine GQ, John called Priyanka Gandhi
Vadra, "the sexiest woman in India by eons and light years".

An Indian-American mortgage broker and Bollywood film promoter has been sentenced to seven years in prison for defrauding banks of $33 million and cheating fellow immigrants from Indian community with phony home loans.

Condoms have become the new precious item being targetted by smugglers along the porous Indo-Nepal border.

In the centre of Kathmandu, Gautam Sapkota raises his hand to his mouth and emits a series of loud screeches. Within minutes, the sky above him is full of hundreds of crows answering his call.

What commitments Maoists have or have not fulfilled towards 2006 Comprehensive Peace Accord despite the political pressures so far will determine the future of Nepal, if conscientious democratic forces from every corner – politics, media, elites, civil society and intellectuals fail to scrutinize the ground reality and lead the nation as per the aspiration of people for a new democratic Nepal.

Bhutan has sounded a massive security alert after the killing of four forest rangers in a powerful landmine explosion by Nepal-based Maoist guerrillas, officials said on Thursday.

The HIV/AIDS affected people in Nepal have alleged that the funds meant for their well-being were being diverted elsewhere, The Himalayan Times reported on Wednesday.

MORE than 175 Nepalese died in Qatar last year, according to a top official of the Nepal embassy.

Photos showing the environment inside a Dance Restaurant in Thamel, KTM

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This will be the Maoist chief's fifth foreign trip in almost as many months. Besides China, he has been to India twice and to the US in September to attend the UN General Assembly.

Prachanda, the nom de guerre meaning ‘fierce’, led a decade-long civil war against Nepal's former monarchy before joining the political mainstream in 2006.

Nepal’s Shah dynasty, who gripped the imagination of the world with tales of intrigue, assassinations and opulent life styles when it
ruled the nation with absolute power, still continues to hit the headlines long after being voted out of the palace.

A teenage Nepali boy many believe is an incarnation of Lord Buddha went missing after blessing thousands of supporters, police said on Saturday.

Protesters in Katmandu burned tires and smashed car windows Wednesday to protest the deaths of two young men who were allegedly abducted by the youth wing of Nepal's ruling Maoists.

Close on the heels of an international furore over the state of California’s decision to ban same-sex marriages, the apex court of nascent Himalayan republic Nepal has given its nod to such unions.

The massive election win last April by Nepal's former rebel Maoists put them in the position to set the government agenda, and bring about drastic changes they promised during their campaign. But their initial proposals on education – to end private investment in schools and distribute academic certificates to Maoist fighters – have left many Nepalese worried.

As political parties are fighting over the issue of integration of Maoist’s People’s Liberation Army soldiers with the Nepal Army, a high-level delegation of Chinese Army is planning a five-day visit to the Himalayan nation.