Press freedom in Nepal has witnessed a troubling downturn over the past year, with the killing of two journalists and a spike in violations targeting media professionals, according to the Annual Press ...

KALAIYA, May 5: The Rastriya Madhesh Socialist Party (RMSP) has closed Kalaiya bazaar on Sunday to protest police´s manhandling of central member of the party and former lawmaker, Pramod Gupta. A ...

KATHMANDU, Jan 25: Janata Bank Ltd and Ace Remittance Pvt Ltd have signed a remittance agreement. Issuing a statement, the bank said that its Chief Market Management Officer Kalyan Pandey and Munal ...

YANGON, Myanmar, Nov 22: The United States is unwinding two decades of sanctions against Myanmar, as the country´s reformist leadership oversees rapid-fire economic and political change. President ...

2012 was perhaps the most remarkable year in terms of education reform initiatives. A great many of them were brought to the table. There was a speculation of no advertisement policy. Then the ...

Pandora's Box may have unleashed all sorts of miseries and evils on mankind, but in the end it also gave birth to hope making life much more bearable. Since then, people have held on to hope as they ...

In the last few days the Nepali Twittersphere has been abuzz with the news of the horrendous exploitation of Nepali migrant workers in Qatar. Apparently Nepalis as young as 20 are dying from heart ...

NEPALGUNJ, April 28: Information and Communications Minister Raj Kishor Yadav has said the ongoing political battle is between forces that clamour for change and those wanting to maintain the status ...

KATHMANDU, May 18: The government has arranged additional security to a select leaders of the CPN-UML and Nepali Congress. The decision comes in the wake of heightened security threats in the ...

JHAPA, March 3: Jyamirgadhi locals on Wednesday handed over two Indians, who were trying to flee after abducting a three-year old from local Santhal community, to the police. The locals caught the ...

• Prashanta Pandey of Rupandehi was arrested on April 7, 2011 and produced in court after five days of incommunicado detention, during which he was tortured. He was charged under the Civil Code, with ...

KATHMANDU, May 30: UCPN (Maoist) leader Baburam Bhattarai has said the country needs a national unity government to produce a new constitution on time and to successfully carry out reconstruction of ...