After beginning the new year with a nationwide general strike, Nepal had its capital paralysed once again Sunday by a fringe party that is opposing the decision by major parties to restructure the former Hindu kingdom into a federal nation.
The Rastriya Jana Morcha (RJM), a splinter left party, began blocking main roads in Kathmandu valley [...]
Five foetuses in a plastic bag fished out by a ragpicker from a dump by the side of one of Kathmandu valley’s holiest – and most polluted – rivers has raised the spectre of flourishing illegal abortions, police said.
Kajal Kumari, a ragpicker who had Wednesday gone to the Kuleshwor area of Kathmandu valley, the place [...]
Kathmandu, Nov 20 (IANS) Nepal’s historic peace pact, which ended a decade of violent communist insurgency, turned three years Friday under the threat of unravelling.
On this date in 2006, the shadowy leader of Nepal’s Maoist guerrillas, Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, emerged in the capital from underground to ink a comprehensive agreement with the major parties.
The [...]
Kathmandu, Nov 6 (IANS) Their morale boosted by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urging for a national government in Nepal, the former Maoist guerrillas Friday called off another protest that was deemed as going against the peace pact, in a renewed bid to woo the international community.
The former rebels, who agreed to call off a [...]
Geneva, Sep.29 (ANI): The United Nations Human Rights Council, meeting in Geneva, is expected to ratify draft principles which will recognize India’s caste system as a human rights abuse.
The UN will condemn the persecution suffered by 65 million ‘untouchables’ or ‘Dalits’ who carry out the most menial and degrading work
The UN draft, which has been [...]
Kathmandu, Sep 22 (IANS) As Nepal’s parliament remains paralysed due to bickering among the major parties and the task of drafting a ground-breaking constitution by next year seems doomed to fail, a stone’s throw away from the august house Sukmaya Rokaya is working a silent but real revolution.
The 43-year-old is the priest at the Chhakkubakku [...]
