The Supreme Court on Sunday has stayed cabinet’s recommendation for amnesty to murder-convict Maoist lawmake Bal Krishna Dhungel. After conducting the preliminary hearing on the writ failed against the government decision to pardon Dhungel, a single bench of SC Justice Tahir Ali Ansari issued the interim order and ordered both the litigants and the defendants [...]

More than 200 Nepali migrant workers lost their lives in Malaysia in the last 10 months, a report released by the Nepali Embassy in Malaysia revealed. According to the embassy, 235 Nepali workers died in Malaysia between the months of January and October this year. The causes of deaths include road accidents, industrial accidents, suicide [...]

Reports coming from Ministry of Home Affairs have it that the Tibetan refugees living in Nepal will have difficult and trying times ahead. The government will soon review its policies on the Tibetan refugees that is likely to be more stringent, reports confirm. Spokesperson Sudhir Kumar Sah of the Home Ministry tells media that “The [...]

Silvio Berlusconi has resigned as prime minister of Italy, after dominating the country’s politics for 17 years. President Giorgio Napolitano accepted his offer and is likely to appoint technocrat Mario Monti his successor. Mr Berlusconi lost his majority amid an acute debt crisis that threatens the eurozone. He promised to go once MPs had approved [...]

Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai with Speaker Subas Nembang at the TIA in Kathmandu on Saturday after he returned from the Maldives.

Newly appointed education Minister Dinanath Sharma addressing a programme in Chitwan, Saturday

Sumitra is tall and model-thin with waist-length black hair and large, almond eyes. She’s 16, a beautiful, studious girl who speaks Nepali and English fluently. She loves biology and discusses it at length with Chris, bringing schoolbooks to him on the family’s balcony to further their conversation. She and her girl relatives are among the [...]

A quake measuring 5.0 on Richter scale took place Nepal on Sunday morning. Nepal Seismic Measurement Centre informed that the tremor was felt in the area some 40 KM away to the north-east part from Gorkha district headquarters at 5.31 AM this morning. However, no occurrences of casualties and damages have been reported so far.

Paddy field in Jhapa

Local Krishna Pd Bhattarai shows a goat that he grows since many years, Sunsari. Bhattarai earn his living by goat farming. Noted comedian actress Dipashree Niraula (Bhattarai cousin) is observing the goat that her Mama grows.