Nepal Army Colonel Kumar Lama, who was been detained in the UK, is to be presented to the Metropolitan Magistrate for a hearing on Thursday. Nepal government has hired Kingsley Napley, a British law firm to handle Lama’s case, according to reports. The defense lawyers are to demand bail for Lama and his subsequent repatriation [...]

Manima Shubba, a homemaker living in central Kathmandu says that women of all walks of life have faced abuse in public vehicles including her. The only difference is the number of times they have been victims. Ganga Mishra, a 19-year-old student who attends the same college as Acharya, is one of those victims. Residing in [...]

Mountain climbers might be some of the only people familiar with the food from Nepal, but ABC7′s Hungry Hound says you don’t have to trek to the Himalayas anymore because there are a handful of Nepalese restaurants in Chicago now. In most cases, the local restaurants food reporter Steve Dolinsky found combine food from both [...]

A Nepali worker has been killed after being stabbed by another Nepali in Abu Dhabi of UAE. Chandra Bahadur Thapa of Sandhikarka, Arghakhachi district, died after being stabbed, allegedly by Ek Bahadur Basyal, who also hails from the same district, in the middle of a minor dispute on Friday, reports said. They worked at the [...]

Facebook has announced a major addition to its social network – a smart search engine it has called graph search. The feature allows users to make “natural” searches of content shared by their friends. Search terms could include phrases such as “friends who like Star Wars and Harry Potter”. Founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg [...]

Conservation officials of Nepal and India have agreed to conduct joint head count of Royal Bengal tigers in both Nepal and India. According to officials, the counting will be done simultaneously in six protected areas in Nepal and nine protected areas in India. Megh Bahadur Pandey, director general of Department of National Parks and Wildlife [...]

If you are building a new house within Kathmandu Metropolis, now you have to allocate some area and money for planting trees, state-owned news agency RSS reports. The Metropolis has implemented from today a new arrangement to plant at least two trees while getting approval of the map of the new house to be built [...]

Maghe Shakranti is being observed across Nepal on Monday, around 24 days behind schedule, astrologers say. While, the rest of the world marked the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year, on December 22, Nepalis are observing celebrations for the same event in mid-January — 24 days later. Reason? The Nepali calendar has fallen [...]

Chinese media have reacted strongly to dangerous levels of pollution recorded in many northern cities in recent days. In the capital, Beijing, at the weekend, air pollution soared past levels considered hazardous by the World Health Organization. The state-run China Daily said the country had to learn to balance development with quality of life. The [...]

Hundreds of thousands of people have been bathing at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers at Allahabad in India, on the opening day of the Kumbh Mela festival.Up to 10 million more pilgrims are set to do so by the end of the day. The event, every 12 years, is billed as the [...]