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.

A Nepali woman on Monday entered a nine feet wide and nine feet deep ditch in Nepaljung town of western Nepal to start a three-month long meditation, a media report said on Monday.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

Three years after he created a furore with a TV channel airing his comments about how aspiring actresses had slept with him to further their career, Bollywood's bad man Shakti Kapoor has triggered fresh controversy. This time, it is in Nepal with a media allegation that he misbehaved with a Nepali actress.

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.

Sarah Miller went from her home in Westlake Village to Nepal, where she made a video comparing her life with that of people she met there, finding different definitions of necessity, wealth and happiness.

Thousands of people flocked to a remote jungle in southeast Nepal to see a boy, some believe is a reincarnation of Lord Buddha, who reappeared after missing for more than a year, police said on Tuesday.

Nepal will be emphasising the need to inject additional investment into agriculture to enable the SAARC region to tackle impending food deficit at the upcoming meeting of SAARC agriculture ministers.

As Nepal began celebrating its Hindu festival of Diwali with five days’ festivities, the Himalayan republic’s power-strapped government is appealing to the nation to go slow on lights, one of the main accessories of the festival.

Nepal’s former Maoist guerrillas, who came to power pledging revolution and progress, have now endorsed a decision to switch over from the existing calendar to an ethnic one that will take the former Hindu kingdom back more than eight centuries.