KATHMANDU: As speculation is rife that Beijing is behind the new political change in Nepal, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated on Tuesday that China is ready to work with the new government in Nepal.

KATHMANDU: A reshuffle of the cabinet is on the cards in Nepal on Monday with the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) severing its alliance with its coalition partner Nepali Congress.

PATNA: A Chinese national was arrested from near the India-Nepal border at Raxaul in Bihar’s East Champaran district on Thursday.

GURUGRAM: A 24-year-old Nepali man killed his wife here and sought to attribute her death to illness but was arrested after her autopsy revealed her death of strangulation, police said.

NEW DELHI: The ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2 begins in Kirtipur on Thursday with Namibia, the Netherlands and hosts Nepal featuring in the first of 24 tri-series that will take four teams to the brink of qualifying for the 2027 ODI World Cup which will be played in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia.

KATHMANDU: Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Friday embarked on a three-day official visit to India, with a delegation of four ministers, members of the business community, journalists and senior government officials.

KATHMANDU: Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and his Nepal counterpart Narayan Khadka on Tuesday held talks in Colombo on the sidelines of the ongoing Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) meet.

KATHMANDU: Nepal and India have jointly announced the visit of Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba to New Delhi from April 1.

KATHMANDU:Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held separate meetings with Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari and two former Prime Ministers, KP Sharma Oli and Pushpa Kamal Dahal here on Sunday.

KATHMANDU: Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is set to embark on a three-day official visit to India starting from April 1.

KATHMANDU: Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba on Saturday thanked his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for evacuating Nepali nationals who were stranded in the war-torn Ukraine.

MUMBAI: The international arm of the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on Thursday announced to deploy Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in Nepal to bolster interoperable real-time person-to-person (P2P), person to merchant (P2M) and potential cross-border P2P remittances between Nepal and India.

NEW DELHI:The rising number of mosques and madarsas in the last three years along the Indo-Nepal border adjoining Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal is a matter of serious security concerns, intelligence agencies have warned in a latest report.

KATHMANDU: Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba have gone into isolation after his close contacts tested positive for Covid-19.

LAKHIMPUR KHERI: A 19-year-old student of Class 12 from Nepal has been arrested with six kilograms of 'charas' (cannabis) at the International Border in Gauriphanta area of Lakhimpuri Kheri district.

NEW DELHI: World Esports Cup (WEC21), South East Asias premier tri-nation esports championship, has received close to 1.2 million registrations from the gaming community from India, Pakistan and Nepal.

KATHMANDU: Prime Minister of Nepal Sher Bahadur Deuba, 75, has been re-elected as the President of the Nepali Congress (NC).

KATHMANDU: Cricket Association of Nepal (CAN) on Saturday appointed former Sri Lanka and Canada cricketer Pubudu Dassanayake as the head coach of the men's national team. This will be Dassanayake's second stint with the Nepal team after being their coach from 2011 to 2015.

KATHMANDU: The Nepal Army on Thursday expressed grief over the demise of Indian Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, who was killed a day earlier in a chopper crash along with 12 others in the state of Tamil Nadu.

KATHMANDU: Nepal will not allow people from third countries to travel to India by rail via the Kurtha-Jayanagar railroad after Indian officials expressed security concerns, a senior official of the Department of Railways has said.

KATHMANDU: Four Indian nationals were killed in a road accident in Rautahat district near the Nepal-India border, police said.
The car with an Indian number plate met with the accident at around 10 p.m. on Saturday night along the Chandranigahapur road section at Jhunkhunwa Chowk, according to the District Police Office in Rautahat.

KATHAMNDU: General Prabhu Ram Sharma, Nepal's Chief of Army Staff, on Tuesday embarked on a four-day visit to New Delhi at the invitation of his Indian counterpart General Manoj Mukund Naravane.

NEW DELHI: "Cyberattacks from India disclosed" is the new propaganda by Chinese mouthpiece media as it claims that groups from India with possible intelligence background and state support constantly attacked defence and military units as well as state-owned enterprises in China, Nepal and Pakistan over the past few years, Global Times reported.

KATHMANDU: least 48 people have died and 31 others went missing in Nepal's flood and landslides triggered by incessant rains from Sunday, Nepal's Ministry of Home Affairs said.

KATHMANDU:  In a bid to reach out to the Indian leadership, Prime Minister of Nepal Sher Bahadur Deuba is sending a high-level delegation to India at the invitation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

KATHMANDU:  Veteran Nepali Congress leader Narayan Khadka has been appointed as country's Foreign Minister. Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba has appointed Khadka as new Foreign Minister on Wednesday morning, Deuba's private secretariat has confirmed.

KATHMANDU:  Nepals Sher Bahadur Deuba government on Tuesday decided to recall 12 ambassadors previously appointed by the K.P. Sharma Oli government, including Ambassador Nilamber Acharya from India.

NEW DELHI:India and Nepal will carry out joint military training exercise 'Surya Kiran' at Uttarakhand's Pithoragarh from September 20, the Indian Army announced on Friday.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Police said on Thursday that they have arrested a Nepalese man for stealing around Rs 40 lakh from his employer's office.According to the police, the employer had registered a complaint with the Saket police station stating that his servant, Raju Thapa, had stolen Rs 25 lakh in cash and two diamond pieces worth about Rs 15 lakh from his office at the Square One Mall in Saket.

PATNA:  A team of Sashastra Seema Bal nabbed two persons, including a Chinese national, from the India-Nepal border in Kishanganj district of Bihar.

 KATHMANDU:  After the boundary row of last year, there was peace in bilateral ties between Nepal and India. There were high-level meetings and contacts between the two sides. But that seems to be fading away now.

KATHMANDU: Bharatiya Janata Party's Foreign Affairs Department chief Dr Vijay Chauthaiwale held talks with several top party leaders of Nepal on Monday.
Chauthaiwale, who arrived here on Sunday, had met Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and handed over a message from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

KATHMANDU:Nepals Covid-19 death toll has crossed the 10,000 since the Himalayan nation registered its first virus-related fatality on May 14, 2020, the Ministry of Health and Population said.

PHAGWARA: Continuing its drive to wipe out the drug menace from Kapurthala district, the police busted an international drug racket across India and Nepal involved in smuggling Ganja and arrested three persons besides seizing 15 Kg of the drug puppy husks from their possession.

NEW DELHI; Is China worried about the change in government in Nepal? In an article, the Beijing headquartered Global Times, noted that "the Nepali Congress will likely lead the countrys foreign policy towards a "favourable direction for India." However, it also maintained that despite this Nepals relations with China will remain solid.

NEW DELHI:Improving connectivity will be the focus for India and the landlocked Nepal, which needs to access ports to boost its trade activities.
India and Nepal must establish a workable mechanism that focuses solely on matters of connectivity-- promoting highway, railway and air linkages among others in a systematic fashion. Planning for a five to 15 year horizon is imperative," Bhaskar Koirala, Director of the Nepal Institute of International and Strategic Studies told India Narrative.

KATHMANDU:While speaking to his newly-appointed Nepal counterpart Sher Bahadur Deuba, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday assured Covid-19 vaccine supply to the Himalayan nation.

KATHMANDU: Nepal on Monday launched a digital visa system to replace its 45-year-old hand-written visa regime.
Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel inaugurated the new system under which visas are produced digitally from the integrated information system of the Department of Immigration, the Xinhua news agency reported

KATHMANDU Online classes amid the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has boosted the import of mobile phones in Nepal, according to data released by the country's Department of Customs.

KATHMANDU: As the world celebrates International Yoga Day on Monday, Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli claimed that yoga originated in his country, not India.

KATHMANDU: Floods and landslides have wreaked havoc in Nepal following the incessant rains on Tuesday and Wednesday, leaving scores dead and missing.

KATHMANDU: Over four dozen people are feared missing as floods and landslides wreaked havoc in Helambu and Melamchi areas in Sindhupalchok district of Nepal following incessant rains on Tuesday and Wednesday.

KATHMANDU: Nepal Finance Minister Bishnu Prasad Paudel has presented a budget of 1.64 trillion NPR ($14 billion) for the 2021-22 fiscal year that starts in mid-July, with focus on controlling the Covid-19 pandemic and recovering the economy.

KATHMANDU: Eight Covid-19 patients died in Nepal's western city of Pokhara due to oxygen shortage, a hospital official said on Friday.

KATHMANDU: Nepal Prime Minister KP Olis decision to dissolve Parliament has led to controversy, uproar and opposition in the Himalayan nation.On the recommendation of Oli's Cabinet, President Bidhya Devi Bhandari on Friday midnight dissolved the House and declared snap polls for November 12 and 19.

KATHMANDU: In a dramatic turn of events, Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Friday midnight dissolved the Parliament as per the recommendation of the government and declared to hold midterm elections on November 12 and 19.

HOUSTAN (TX): US-based Sewa International has announced $100,000 in aid to Nepal and $50,000 to Trinidad and Tobago for COVID -19 relief efforts as the second wave of the pandemic is gaining strength in the two countries. The COVID-19 second wave is rapidly spreading in Nepal and the test positive rate has crossed 47 percent.

KATHMANDU:Nepal received a second shipment of China-donated oxygen cylinders as the Himalayan country is continuing to face an acute shortage of medical oxygen supply for a growing number of Covid-19 patients.

KATHMANDU: After opposition parties failed to form a coalition government, Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari has reappointed KP Sharma Oli as the 42nd Prime Minister on the basis of leading the largest party in Parliament.

KATHMANDU: Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli on Monday lost the vote of confidence in the Parliament with 93 lawmakers voting in favour of the motion, 124 against it, while 15 remained neutral.

DHAKA: The Bangladesh government has banned the entry of travellers from Nepal as its neighbouring countries, including India, were reeling from a deadly second wave of the coronavirus pandemic.

 MOHALI: Oakridge International School organized workshops for 25 schools of Nepal and North India. 371 teachers from these 25 schools participated in 'Virtual Job Alike Session'. The teachers of Oakridge International School presented 25 sessions which enriched the learning of the community that helps children to gain conceptual clarity through experiential learning.

KATHMANDU: The KP Sharma Oli-led government in Nepal has slipped in the minority after the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist Centre) withdrew its support to the government.

KATHMANDU: Nepal has registered the highest single-day Covid-19 cases and deaths amid an ongoing resurgence of the pandemic in the Himalayan nation.

KATHMANDU: Nepal's primary opposition party, the Nepali Congress has begun talks with the Nepal Communist Party-Maoist Centre and the Janata Samajbadi Party to unseat Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and form a coalition government under its leadership.

KATHMANDU: Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli who is in trouble inside his own party, is likely to face tougher days ahead as the primary opposition, Nepali Congress (NC) has decided to seek his resignation and initiate the formation of a new government under its leadership.

KATHMANDU: The long wait of Nepalis in the capital Kathmandu to get drinking water from the Melamchi river has become a reality after President Bidya Devi Bhandari inaugurated the country's largest water supply project on Friday.

KATHMANDU: The Nepal government on Monday announced it was shutting all educational institutions for the next four days owing to the severe deterioration of air quality in the recent period.

KATHMANDU: A day after the Nepal Army received 100,000 doses of Covid vaccine from their Indian counterparts as a goodwill gesture, 800,000 doses donated by China arrived in Kathmandu on Monday.

KATHMANDU: Tourists flying into Nepal will no longer have to quarantine if they have a negative test result for Covid-19 upon arrival, officials said on Friday.

KATHMANDU: Nepal President Bidya Devi Bhandari on Monday left for Bangladesh on a two-day state visit, during which she will attend a special programme in Dhaka and meet others senior leaders from the region.

NEW DELHI: The two robbers, who shot dead a Nepali woman in Timarpur and targeted two women who were out for jogging in Rohini last week, were arrested on Sunday, police said.

DEHRADUN: Despite reminders, the Nepalese security agencies are yet to remove "encroachment" from the no-man's land on the sensitive Uttarakhand-Nepal border.

NEW DELHI: A 45-year-old woman was shot dead by bike-borne assailants here on Wednesday.The victim identified as Meena was from Nepal and was residing in Timarpur in North Delhi, where the attack took place. She used to sell water, snacks and cold drinks.

MUMBAI: In a major swoop, the Mumbai Police's Anti Narcotics Cell, Kandivali, has seized Charas worth Rs. 2.80 crore from a Nepali gangster, an official said.

PATIALA: A young boy namely Prem Thapa of Nepali origin was found in Children Home, Rajpura during the inspection conducted by Sh. Rajinder Aggarwal, Ld. District & Sessions Judge, Patiala and Ms Parminder Kaur, Secretary, District Legal Services Authority, Patiala. On inquiry, it was found that he had gained entry into India on a false belief that he shall meet his brother.

PILIBHIT: An Indian national was killed in police firing along the Indo-Nepal border in Uttar Pradesh's Pilibhit district.

KATHMANDU:A massive fire broke out on Tuesday Dobhan Bazaar, a small town in Nepal's Taplejung district, and has gutted around 40 houses.

KATHMANDU: Nepal on Tuesday reported 110 new cases of coronavirus infection from across the country. With this, the nationwide infection count has advanced to 273,666.

PATNA: While the prices of petrol and diesel touched Rs 100 at some places in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, this situation is turning out to be a money making business for mafias active on the borders of India and Nepal.

KATHMANDU: Leaked documents of correspondence between Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu show that Beijing had put pressure on the Himalayan country to accept its Covid vaccine without its efficiency and efficacy being established.

KATHMANDU: China has announced that it will provide half a million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine to Nepal.
During a phone call with his Nepali counterpart Pradeep Kumar Gyawali on Friday evening, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced that Beijing will provide the 500,000 doses in a grant.

KATHMANDU:The first phase of Covid-19 vaccination drive kicked off in Nepal on Wednesday.
According to the health officials, the coronavirus has so far killed 2,017 people and infected 270,092 across the country.

NEW DELHI: India is ready to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief training and capacity building to Nepal as both countries make attempts to improve strained bilateral relations.

LUCKNOW: Farmers from Ghazipur district have exported 30 metric tonnes of green chillies and tomatoes to Bangladesh and Nepal.
As many as 1,500 farmers from Patal Ganga and adjoining areas of Ghazipur district are earning sufficient money through their hard work. In fact, the importers from Nepal and Bangladesh also visited the farmers in Ghazipur to make their payment.