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Posted By: RSS Feeds on Date: Sun, Aug 01, 2010

KATHMANDU – Nepal’s parliament failed on July 21 to elect a new prime minister amid a standoff between Maoist former rebels and other political parties that threatens a fragile peace process..Read More + read more...

Joining NASA, Pentagon and White House in Kathmandu

Posted By: RSS Feeds on Date: Sat, Jul 31, 2010

Couldn't the colleges in the city get an authentic Nepali name instead of some phony western one? "I'm going to Texas for studies," the girl announces jubilantly..Read More + read more...

Nepal court upholds French serial killer's conviction for killing American backpacker

Posted By: RSS Feeds on Date: Sat, Jul 31, 2010

KATMANDU, Nepal - Nepal's Supreme Court upheld a conviction of a French serial killer nicknamed "The Serpent" who was found guilty of killing an American tourist in Kathmandu more than three decades ago..Read M + read more...

Nepal SC sentences 'bikini killer'Sobhraj to life

Posted By: RSS Feeds on Date: Sat, Jul 31, 2010

Kathmandu, July 30 : Nepal's Supreme Court on Friday slapped a life sentence on Charles Sobhraj, the "bikini killer", for murdering American tourist Connie Jo Bronzich in 1975..Read More + read more...

Sobhraj fails to overturn murder ruling

Posted By: RSS Feeds on Date: Sat, Jul 31, 2010

A notorious French murderer has escaped convictions in three countries but this time he was not so fortunate, write Steve Tickner, in Nepal, and Lindsay Murdoch..Read More + read more...

BUDDHA’S ORPHANS

Posted By: RSS Feeds on Date: Sat, Jul 31, 2010

Samrat Upadhyay is a professor of creative writing at Indiana University. He is Nepalese but writes in English, making him a “first” and therefore something of a phenomenon..Read More + read more...

Crime › Japanese arrested in Nepal for possessing hashish

Posted By: RSS Feeds on Date: Fri, Jul 30, 2010

Nepalese police have arrested a 27-year-old Japanese national at Kathmandu's international airport on suspicion of possessing 1.2 kilograms of hashish, an official said Wednesday. Hirokazu….Read More + read more...

Necessity of Earthquake Preparedness in Nepal

Posted By: RSS Feeds on Date: Fri, Jul 30, 2010

Nepal has a situation that is more similar to Haiti. The building standards in Nepal are very low because the building codes are not strictly followed. On top of that, the infrastructure is inadequate and dwind + read more...

Nepal lifts ban on travel to Iraq to save jobs

Posted By: RSS Feeds on Date: Fri, Jul 30, 2010

KATHMANDU, Jul 29, 2010 (AFP) - Thousands of Nepalese workers in Iraq will be able to keep their jobs after the government lifted a ban on travel to the war-torn country, the employment ministry said on Thursda + read more...

Heavy rains delay salvage of crashed Pakistan plane

Posted By: RSS Feeds on Date: Fri, Jul 30, 2010

Heavy monsoon rains in Islamabad on Thursday hampered recovery efforts at the site of a Pakistani plane crash that killed all 152 people on board a day earlier, a senior police officer said..Read More + read more...

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