Kathmandu, April 6 – The Nepali government announced a series of immediate and long-term measures on Monday to strengthen transparency, accountability, and governance in the country's mountain rescue operations, amid allegations that fake rescue missions for climbers have been conducted to...
Kathmandu, April 3 – The mountaineering community in Nepal has expressed serious concerns over a $20 million insurance scam, even as police dismissed media reports on Friday alleging that some foreign tourists were deliberately given poisonous food to facilitate fraudulent rescue operations.As...
Kathmandu, April 2 Former Nepal Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli will remain in judicial custody for two more days as a district court here permitted the police to extend his detention on Wednesday.The deposed Prime Minister and then Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak were arrested on March 28 for...
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Kathmandu, March 31 The Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist-Leninist) announced a two-week-long protest starting April 11 against the arrest of former prime minister and party chairman K P Sharma Oli.Former prime minister and then home minister Ramesh Lekhak were arrested on Saturday for...
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Kathmandu, March 29 – Police arrested Nepali Congress leader and former Minister for Energy, Water Resources, and Irrigation, Deepak Khadka, on Sunday in a money laundering case, a senior police officer said.A day after former Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and former Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak...
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Kathmandu, March 27 The first Cabinet meeting of the newly formed government, chaired by Prime Minister Balendra Shah, on Friday decided to immediately implement the report of the high-level commission's investigation into the Gen Z movement in September last year.The Cabinet meeting also...
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Kolkata, March 9 A team of Nepal Police, assisted by its West Bengal counterpart, has arrested seven people, including a couple from the state, and seized counterfeit currency worth approximately Rs 70 crore during a raid at an apartment near Kolkata, an official said on Monday.The raid took...
Kathmandu, March 8 – Nepal’s investigation panel, which was looking into the September protests by Gen Z and its aftermath, in which over 70 people were reportedly killed and led to the fall of the K. P. Sharma Oli government, finally submitted its report to interim Prime Minister Sushila Karki...
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Kathmandu, March 5 Tens of thousands of Nepalese voters cast their ballots on Thursday in the crucial parliamentary elections to elect a new prime minister, six months after a violent protest by Gen Z led to the ouster of the K P Sharma Oli-led coalition government.The elections are being...
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Kathmandu, March 3 Two people were injured when a suspicious object exploded in Nepal's Madhes province on Tuesday, just two days before the March 5 general election, police said.The incident occurred on the East-West Highway in Bardibas in Mahottari district when the unidentified object...
Kathmandu, February 25 The Nepal Army announced on Wednesday that it is implementing a three-phase integrated security plan, including aerial patrols and neutralizing suspicious objects, for the upcoming general elections next week.A total of 18.9 million eligible voters will exercise their...
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