Seven years after he made his last film in Nepal, the lone Indian director here is poised to make a comeback with his new movie exploring the psyche of Nepalis and people of Nepali origin scattered all over the world.
The Nepali film industry’s once-acclaimed director Tulsi Ghimire, who began his career as a spot boy [...]
The arrest of the son of a powerful Nepalese politician on charges of heading a major fake Indian currency and drugs smuggling racket allegedly sponsored by Pakistani intelligence agencies has exposed how Islamabad is quietly pouring money into Nepal with the underworld’s help to unleash a propaganda war against India, well placed sources here say.
Yunus [...]
Ahead of Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna’s visit to Nepal from Jan 15, the opposition Maoist party will start anti-India protests that will climax in torching bilateral pacts with India, the chief of the former guerrillas said.
Maoist supremo and former prime minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda Tuesday told the media his party would start [...]
Nepal’s decision to ban the export of sand, boulders and crushed stone to prevent environmental degradation is going to hit hard India’s booming construction industry, especially in the Terai plains close to the Nepal border.
A parliamentary panel on natural resources Monday directed the coalition government to immediately stop the export of sand and stone to [...]
The influential husband of Nepali student Neetu Singh, whose deportation by Indian police for allegedly ‘anti-Indian activities’ triggered an outcry in India, says he was the real victim after his return to Kathmandu.
Amresh Kumar Singh, who was nominated to Nepal’s parliament four years ago by former prime minister and Nepal politics’ strongman Girija Prasad Koirala [...]
Ahead of Indian Army chief Deepak Kapoor’s first official visit to Nepal, the Manmohan Singh government distanced itself from the controversy raked up by the general with a reported statement about the Maoist army in Nepal, saying it did not reflect the government’s position.
‘We have seen media reports attributing certain remarks to the Indian Chief [...]
Kathmandu, Jan 4 (IANS) The start of the new decade will see more film makers training their cameras on border clashes — this time between India and its neighbour Nepal to tell the story from the Nepali perspective.
Two Nepali film directors have completed shooting for their new feature films that focus on the tribulation and [...]
Kathmandu, Jan 3 (IANS) The son of a powerful Nepal politician, who belonged to the ruling Communist Party, then supported deposed king Gyanendra and is alleged to have had links with the underworld in India and Pakistan, has been arrested in a covert operation by police for running a fake Indian currency and drugs racket [...]
Kathmandu, Jan 3 (IANS) The son of a former Nepal minister, alleged to have had links with the underworld in India and Pakistan, has been arrested in Kathmandu for running a racket in fake Indian currency and drugs, police said here Sunday.
Yunus Ansari, son of former forest minister Salim Ansari, who supported deposed king Gyanendra, [...]
Kathmandu, Jan 3 (IANS) Caught in a raging controversy in India after the deportation of his estranged wife Neetu Singh by the Maharashtra Police, Nepali power broker Amresh Kumar Singh is returning to Kathmandu this fortnight after submitting his PhD thesis at the Jawaharlal Nehru University.
Singh has been forced into hiding in India after the [...]
Kathmandu, Jan 3 (IANS) The nearly four decades of monopoly enjoyed by India’s public-sector enterprise Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) in Nepal is heading towards an end with the private sector in the country having been given the go-ahead for gas imports while laws are being drafted to open oil trading as well.
Nepal’s Commerce and Supplies [...]
Kathmandu, Jan 2 (IANS) A former Nepali MP who reportedly used his political clout to get his wife, a film student at a Pune institute, deported from India remains untraceable.
Amresh Kumar Singh, former MP of ruling Nepali Congress (NC), returned to New Delhi last month, according to politicians from Nepal’s Terai plains, from where Singh [...]
Kathmandu, Jan 2 (IANS) A year after Bollywood film ‘Chandni Chowk to China’ triggered an uproar in Nepal with its claim that Gautam Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was born in India, an internationally acclaimed journalist and author has stoked the controversy afresh.
Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek and host of a weekly show on international [...]
Kathmandu, Jan 2 (IANS) On New Year’s Day a sudden protest called by ethnic groups paralysed Nepal but failed to deter filmmaker Shovit Basnet from reaching his office and working on his new project for yet another film on Sikkim where thousands of Nepalis and people of Nepali origin live.
The 38-year-old filmmaker, with two new [...]
Kathmandu, Jan 1 (IANS) Indian Army chief Gen Deepak Kapoor will be visiting the Himalayan republic this month to be decorated with the honorary title of general of the Nepal Army.
Gen Kapoor, who assumed office in 2007 and kicked up a controversy last month by opposing the induction of Nepal’s former Maoist guerrillas into the [...]
Kathmandu, Jan 1 (IANS) Continuing with the past year’s legacy of turmoil, the new year in Nepal dawned amid frustration and anger Friday with disadvantaged ethnic groups calling for a nationwide strike with little prior notice, leaving thousands in difficulties.
Even as the fear of an indefinite strike declared by the Maoists from Jan 24 dampened [...]
Kathmandu, Dec 31 (IANS) A case akin to the Ruchika Girotra molestation has emerged in Nepal with the police trying to cover up an incident of six cops raping a woman colleague. The Nepal media has begun a campaign on the victim’s behalf, triggering a public outcry.
Policewoman Suntali Dhami was gangraped by her colleagues inside [...]
Kathmandu, Dec 30 (IANS) Three months after being caught for masterminding attacks on churches and mosques in Nepal, the chief of an underground organisation that persecuted Christians and Muslims says he was funded by India’s ultra-right organisations and armed by outlawed Indian militant group United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA).
Ram Prasad Mainali, a 37-year-old Hindu, [...]
Kathmandu, Dec 30 (IANS) Begun on a high note after a historic election consolidated peace and the former Maoist guerrillas led Nepal’s first ultra-left government, 2009 saw the nascent republic plunge into chaos with the political parties squandering opportunities of stability.
Nepal’s annus horribilis affected India as well with diplomatic and even cultural ties souring.
The Maoists, [...]
Kathmandu, Dec 28 (IANS) Nepal’s controversial army, which tarnished its image by siding with deposed king Gyanendra during his bloodless coup four years ago, finds itself in a fresh row with three torture victims filing a case against a general, accusing him of gross human rights violations.
Krishna KC, Himal Sharma and Bina Magar, who were [...]
Kathmandu, Dec 28 (IANS) Terming a recent remark by the Indian Army chief as ‘naked intervention in Nepal’s internal affairs’, this country’s former Maoist guerrillas, who are seeking to get back to power, have asked the Indian government to clarify its position.
During a visit to India earlier this month by Nepal’s army chief Chhatraman Singh [...]
Kathmandu, Dec 25 (IANS) For the last two years, Charles Sobhraj, yesteryear’s sensational crime maestro, had looked forward to Christmas, hoping to be released from Nepal’s biggest prison, where he is doing time for murder, and be reunited with the apple of his eye, his little daughter in Paris.
But this Christmas, there’s no such joyful [...]
Kathmandu, Dec 24 (IANS) Ignoring calls by the UN and human rights organisations at home and abroad, Nepal’s communist-led government Thursday decided to promote a senior army officer under whose command soldiers ran a torture camp during the Maoist insurgency and executed dozens of people secretly detained under the suspicion they helped the guerrillas.
With Prime [...]
Kathmandu, Dec 24 (IANS) Three years after it abolished Hinduism as the state religion to become a secular nation, Nepal is still awaiting its first Christian leaders.
‘We need a Christian party to make our voices heard,’ says Rev Anthony Sharma, the first Catholic bishop appointed by Rome in Nepal in 2007.
‘However, Christians are still lacking [...]
Kathmandu, Dec 23 (IANS) Within 24 hours of Nepal’s Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda throwing a challenge to the Indian government, the former guerrilla party Wednesday backtracked on the dare, saying it was simply a jibe at the parties.
Prachanda had said he would hold negotiations directly with ‘master’ New Delhi instead of Nepal’s ruling [...]
Kathmandu, Dec 23 (IANS) Recovering from the trauma of the sensational hijack of an Indian Airlines aircraft 10 years ago, Nepal’s civil aviation authorities say they have learnt from the past experience and strengthened security measures at the country’s only international airport.
The hijacking had ended with the brutal killing of a passenger and the release [...]
Kathmandu, Dec 23 (IANS) A decade after the stunning hijack of an Indian Airlines (IA) aircraft on way to New Delhi from Kathmandu and the brutal killing of a passenger by terrorists, Nepal, whose economy was devastated by the incident, is ready to narrate its own version of the disaster.
From early 2010, Nepali film director [...]
Kathmandu, Dec 22 (IANS) Nepal’s Maoist party Tuesday ended a countrywide three-day general strike and threw an open challenge to India to begin direct talks with it instead of ‘remote-controlling’ the Nepali ruling parties. It also threatened to launch an indefinite general strike from Jan 24.
After paralyzing the country for two days and a half [...]
Kathmandu, Dec 22 (IANS) Hollywood director James Cameron’s globally-hyped new sci-fi epic ‘Avatar’, that rockets a paralysed ex-Marine into a battle of the worlds on a distant moon, has run into an unexpected enemy in Nepal — a mammoth general strike called by the republic’s former Maoist guerrillas.
The new, much-awaited release by 20th Century Fox [...]
Kathmandu, Dec 21 (IANS) Defying the government’s call to withdraw their three-day general strike, Nepal’s Maoist party Monday closed down the country for the second day amidst warnings of more disruptions if its demands were not met.
As the ruling alliance amassed riot police to guard the constituent assembly building in Baneshwar, the area in the [...]
