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.

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.

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.

On Dec. 13, Dr. Acharya died after hanging himself in the Allegheny County Jail. He had been in custody since September, when he was charged with hitting and killing a motorcyclist on the Pennsylvania Turnpike and then running from the scene of the crash.

A crowded bus has veered off a highway in southern Nepal, killing at least 22 people, most of them schoolchildren, police have said.

Nepali police detained 10 people on Wednesday in connection with a bomb blast in southeast Nepal, police said, as they continued their hunt for more suspects a day after a blast ripped through a small town.

Kathmandu, Oct 15 (IANS) Indian multinational Dabur India’s wholly-owned subsidiary Dabur Nepal is under fresh fire following the seizure of contraband hashish from an Indian truck laden with Dabur Nepal’s Real brand of fruit juice meant for export to India.Nepal’s ruling Maoist party has seized upon the incident to begin a campaign against the exporter.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Three people were killed and five wounded by a powerful bomb that ripped through a market in a small town in southeast Nepal Tuesday, police said.

Eighteen people, mostly Western tourists, were killed when a small plane crashed and went up in flames in Nepal's mountainous north Wednesday while the country was busy celebrating Dashain, its biggest festival.

Two people were killed and 29 others injured in separate accidents in different parts of Nepal on Sunday, reported the local media house's website Kantipur.

A Dutch tourist lost his life in western Nepal on Saturday, local news website THT Online reported Sunday. The Dutch national, Peter Ruff, fell to death from Dhungesanghu in Pokhara of Kaski district, some 140 km west of Nepali capital Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU, - Four people were injured in a small bomb blast at a mosque in southeast Nepal, police said on Sunday. There was no major damage to the mosque after the blast late on Saturday, police official Gopal Pradhan said from Biratnagar, the biggest town in the region

A Nepali student who was working his shift at a convenience store in Missouri City, Texas, was shot with a rifle and killed during a robbery on Sept. 28.