The Ministry of Labour and Transportation Management announced in Kathmandu today that Nepal will switch from driving on the left side of the road to driving on the right. The statement also said that the government will offer subsidized conversion kits for existing vehicles with right-side steering.

Nepal, a major market for Hindi films, has now come up with tougher regulations for foreign films, close on the heels of banning Bollywood comedy "Chandni Chowk to China" for wrongly saying India was the birthplace of the Buddha.

A police officer was killed after an armed group attacked a police station in a remote village in western Nepal, officials said Saturday. The attackers stormed a police station at Syawlebhan village in Pyuthan district, about 350 kilometres west of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu early Saturday morning.

Almost a fortnight after Nepal's government banned Bollywood film "Chandni Chowk to China" following violence over a statement in the kungfu comedy that the Buddha was born in India, students have kept up protests in the capital.

A week after Nepal's Maoist Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda expressed concern at the growing anarchy in the country and the culture of shutdowns to register protests, a trade union affiliated to his own party called an indefinite closure of the Manipal Teaching Hospital in Nepal.

Over 30 domestic and international rights organisations, including Unicef and Save the Children alliance, have flayed an ongoing protest in Nepal's southern Terai plains during which the organisers reportedly paraded a group of naked young boys.

More than a fortnight after his freedom dreams were dashed by Nepal’s Supreme Court, yesteryear’s "Serpent" Charles Gurmukh Sobhraj hangs in
limbo in the Himalayan republic’s legal labyrinth with the apex court yet to issue orders to a lower court.

Electric Vehicles Association of Nepal (EVAN) has threatened to launch a series of protests should the Nepali government fail to make alternative power supply arrangements to keep electric vehicles going, myrepublica.com reported on Wednesday.

Thousands of people have joined the funeral procession of Uma Singh, the Nepali journalist murdered in the southern city of Janakpur on Sunday.

Is China making efforts to gain influence in Nepal's Army by taking advantage of Maoists being in power? Worries in this regard have been triggered following a flurry of visits by senior Chinese military officials to Kathmandu during the last few months.

Nepal's state-run power monopoly increased daily power cuts to 16 hours from 12 hours on Sunday because growing demand for electricity in winter was putting further strain on generating capacity, an official said. The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has been imposing 12 hours of daily power cuts, saying generation of hydro-electric power had fallen because of the slow melting of mountain snows.

The United Nations has asked Nepal to end the Kamalari system -- practice of sending young girls from indigenous families to work in private homes, where they risk being exploited. The world body also urged the Himalayan nation to search for those who have gone missing and ensure justice for those who have been abused.

Enraged at the growing power crisis in Nepal and alleged unfair state laws, Nepal's private television stations Thursday declared 'emergency'.

Citing significant differences in the demand and supply of power, Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) is planning to increase the load shedding hours to 16 hours a day in a couple of days, The Kathmandu Post reported on Thursday.

A dispute at a Hindu temple in Nepal that has required riot police to keep the peace is not about religion or tradition, but simply a matter of money, officials and pilgrims at the site have told AFP.

As protests escalated, Nepal's Maoist government was forced late Wednesday to temporarily revoke its sacking of the Indian priests who have officiated at the temple for generations.

The officially atheist Maoists won elections last year and dismissed Nepal's Hindu monarchy, with Prachanda, the Maoist leader and new prime minister, replacing the king as patron of Pashupati, the country's holiest Hindu temple.

Local priests and their supporters claim that the temple's trust -- now controlled by the secular Maoists -- decided to remove the Indian priests without consultation or proper legal permission.

The ousted king, who had been the patron of the temple in the past, and his wife, former queen Komal, the president of the trust managing the shrine, said that religion, tradition and religious rites were a way of life in Nepal and should be accepted by all.

Nepal's tourism industry recorded strong growth in 2008, making it the most successful year for the industry in eight years, tourism officials said Friday. The Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) said preliminary figures for the year showed total tourist arrivals for 2008 were around 550,000, but added that full report was still being prepared.

Riot police have been deployed at Nepal's holiest Hindu temple to stop protests after the Maoist government tried to throw out Indian priests who have officiated there for generations.

A small bomb planted by suspected Hindu fundamentalists exploded in a shopping area of Nepal's capital on Thursday injuring one person, police said.

Students stormed an electricity transmission office and shut down power in western Nepal affecting hundreds of thousands of residents in a protest against government imposed power outages.