KATHMANDU: Finance Minister Shanker Prasad Koirala has presented a Rs 506 billion budget for the fiscal year 2013/14 on Sunday. The budget was presented after
KATHMANDU: India has pledged to build a library building for Nepal Academy. Jayant Prasad, the Indian ambassador to Nepal, made the announcement in Kathmandu while speaking at a program organized
KATHMANDU: Visiting Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid’s efforts to persuade madhesh-based parties for facing the proposed Constituent Assembly (CA) polls were confronted by senior Madheshi leaders. A meeting between Khurshid
Mohan Baidya aka “Kiran” is a leading communist leader in Nepal. He is the Chairman of the oft quoted “hardliner’ communist party; CPN-Maoist. Nepalireporter’s Rishi Dhamala recently caught up with
KATHMANDU: Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi arrived in Nepal’s capital on Monday leading 19-member delegation. The delegation will be in Nepal for two days during which it is stated to
Narayan Tiwari (Tokyo): Nepal’s President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav will be going further tests to diagnose his ailment, sources at the Tokyo University Teaching Hospital said on Monday. Prior to
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Islamic militants disguised as policemen killed 10 foreign climbers and a Pakistani guide in a brazen overnight raid against their campsite at the base of one of
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s premier said Monday that the military ruler who ousted him in a coup over a decade ago should be tried for treason, but the government stopped
BEIJING (AP) — An American executive said Monday he has been held hostage for four days at his medical supply plant in Beijing by scores of workers demanding severance packages
MOSCOW/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Russia defied White House pressure on Monday to expel former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden to the United States before he flees Moscow on the