Normal life has been crippled across the country on Thursday due to the general strike called by the United Struggle Committee to protest against ethnicity-based federalism. The group of various caste groups including Brahman Samaj, Chhetri Samaj, Thakuri Samaj, Dashnami Samaj, Dalit Janajagaran Sewa Sangh, Bibedh Mukti Pragatishil Samaj, Khas Chhetri Ekata Samaj and Federation [...]

A passenger taxi has been set ablaze by the so-called supporters of bandh organizers in capital for ‘violating’ bandh (shutdown strike) called by joint struggling committee of Brahmin and Chhetris demanding indigenous identity among others on Friday. Two unidentified persons set a taxi ablaze near the Apex College in Madhya Baneshwor in Kathmandu at around [...]

A woman, Rita Ramtel, has been killed after a passenger microbus hit by a brake failed school bus mowed her down in the field where she was working on Friday. Ramtel, 32 was critically injured after the microbus unexpectedly knocked her down. As many as 11 passengers on board the vehicle were injured in the [...]

More than 50 professors at the central departments of the country’s oldest university are drawing their salary without performing their day-to-day duties, UCPN-Maoist-aligned students said.  The revelation came as All Nepal National Independent Students Union-Revolutionary members, led by union chief Himal Sharma, carried out a daylong inspection at various departments of Tribhuvan University. “During our [...]

The Cabinet meeting on Thursday decided to provide martyrdom to the four victims of Janakpur bomb blast. The meeting also decided to provide Rs one million to the families of the blast victims. With the government decision the general strike that bring normal life at the eastern historical city to a grinding halt is likely [...]

Nine people who were severely injured in a bomb blast at Ramananda Chowk in Janakpur have been brought to Kathmandu for further treatment. The injured people were airlifted to Kathmandu on a Nepal Army helicopter after initial treatment at Janakpur Zonal Hospital. They have been admitted to Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital, Maharajgunj. Among the injured [...]

A minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile arrived Thursday at Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) but was barred entry into Nepal, a TIA immigration said. Tsering Dhondup, finance minister of the India-based government-in-exile, was turned away at the TIA, according to Keshav Pudasaini, a senior immigration officer at the airport. “He had taken a flight from Qatar [...]

Though the government declared a public holiday on Loktantra Diwas under pressure from opposition parties, it did not organise any event to mark the day. The day has its importance as the people’s uprising abolish monarchy through Jana Andolan II. The government has also not celebrated Democracy Day (Falgun 7), which drag huge criticism from [...]

Nepal Students’ Union (NSU), the student wing of Nepali Congress, continued their sit-in demonstration and protests in front of various campuses for the third consecutive day on Sunday. NSU enforced Chakkajam, vehicular blockade, at campuses affiliated to Tribhuvan University (TU) – Pashupati, Shankardev, Amrit Science, Tri-Chandra, and Ratna Rajya Laxmi – for an hour because [...]

Vice-Patron of the Gurkha Welfare Trust, Joanna Lumley has arrived in Kathmandu  to take part in activities of the Fund inNepal. According to the British Embassy inNepal, Lumley will open a school, built under the Trust’s supervision, in the Western Hill. The school was built to the memory of Captain Michael Allmand VC, Honorary Lieutenant [...]