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's Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Saturday afternoon left for a week-long visit to Norway and Finland. The PM left for Norway at 5 pm by a special flight leading a 19-member government delegation. He is scheduled to come back home on April 4.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Nepal is definitely at the crossroads. It is still not certain whether Nepal will see the establishment of a durable peace or a protracted conflict. The chances of going either way is almost fifty-fifty. And with this uncertainty we welcome the international New Year.

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.

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.

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'.