Kathmandu | 1 year ago
Nepal Muslim leader shot dead
Kathmandu, Sep 26 - A top official of a prominent Muslim organisation in Nepal was shot dead in broad daylight in capital city Kathmandu while returning home after praying in a mosque in what Muslim leaders said was the 'targeted serial killing' of Muslims.Faizan Ahmad, general secretary of Islami Sangh Nepal, was coming out of the mosque in Kathmandu's prominent Ghantaghar square, close to the me ... read more

Kathmandu | 1 year ago
Indian tax official, friend held 'captive' in Nepal for 72 hours
Kathmandu, June 18 - An income tax official from India's holy city Haridwar in northern Uttarakhand state and his friend are alleging they faced a 72-hour nightmare in Nepal after being lured to the Himalayan republic with the promise that they would be able to buy land at a throwaway price.Kathmandu police said they arrested a 32-year-old Nepali, Ram Gurung, and are searching the capital for two ... read more

Kathmandu | 2 years ago
Nepal cracks down on Tibet war veterans welfare group
Kathmandu, Feb 17 - The Nepal police has cracked down on an organisation looking after Tibetan resistance fighters, who fought a long guerrilla war against the Chinese invasion and annexation of their country in the 1950s and 1960s, without any provocation, a rights group said.Police in riot gear Sunday shut down local elections for the leadership of the Chushi Gangdruk, a Tibetan community group ... read more

Kathmandu | 2 years ago
Nude Indian dancers' tale propaganda, say Nepal Police
Kathmandu, Oct 25 - Reacting to a Nepali TV channel's reports that hundreds of Indian women had been brought to Nepal to perform obscene dances in the nude, Nepal Police Monday said it was baseless propaganda.Private Nepali television station Avenue TV had Sunday aired scenes taken with a hidden camera in Saptari district on the Indo-Nepal border where a garden had been turned into a seemingly org ... read more

Kathmandu | 2 years ago
'Hundreds of Indian girls hired to dance nude in Nepal'
Kathmandu, Oct 24 - Taking advantage of the long festival season in Nepal, groups from India's Bihar state across the border are bringing hundreds of Indian women to the Himalayan republic to stage obscene nude dance shows, a media report said Sunday.Private Nepali television station Avenue TV Sunday aired scenes taken with a hidden camera in Saptari district on the Indo-Nepal border where a garde ... read more

3 years ago
Darjeeling man held in Nepal for teen's brutal murder
Kathmandu, June 23 - A 42-year-old former school teacher, who migrated to Nepal from the hill town of Darjeeling in India's West Bengal state, was arrested for the brutal murder of a high school student that Tuesday continued to send shock waves and trigger protests throughout the Himalayan republic. High schools remained closed countrywide while enraged students, some still in their uniform, bl ... read more

3 years ago
Woman arrested for Nepal church blast
Kathmandu, June 2 - Nepal police Tuesday said they had made a breakthrough in investigating the deadly blast that ripped through the prayer hall of one of the oldest Catholic churches in the country a week ago, killing three women and injuring at least 14 others. A 27-year-old married woman, whose name was given as Sita Shrestha nee Thapa, has been arrested in connection with the explosion at th ... read more

4 years ago
Indian gang nabbed for preying on Pashupatinath pilgrims
Kathmandu, Jan 24 - They came to Nepal to view the shrine of Lord Pashupatinath, one of the holiest Hindu deities, and offer their prayers. However, they stayed on - and began robbing other Indian devotees who flocked to the 17th century temple in Kathmandu daily. Kathmandu police Friday arrested a gang of eight Indian pilgrims turned robbers, who were headed by Nathuram Verma from Faizabad in I ... read more

4 years ago
Indian gang nabbed for preying on Pashupatinath pilgrims
Kathmandu, Jan 24 - They came to Nepal to view the shrine of Lord Pashupatinath, one of the holiest Hindu deities, and offer their prayers. However, they stayed on - and began robbing other Indian devotees who flocked to the 17th century temple in Kathmandu daily. Kathmandu police Friday arrested a gang of eight Indian pilgrims turned robbers, who were headed by Nathuram Verma from Faizabad in I ... read more

4 years ago
Blast in Kathmandu, no casualty
Kathmandu, Dec 28 - A crude explosive device detonated Sunday morning outside a school in the Nepali capital - the third such incident in two days, but there was no report of injury or death in the incident. Kathmandu police chief Nawaraj Silwal told reporters that an improvised explosive device went off at 6.45 a.m. in front of the Durbar High School, adding that no one was injured in the incid ... read more