Nepal

Indian companies agree to buy 2200MW of power from Nepal in big boost to South Asian energy partnership

Indian companies agreed to purchase 2,200MW of electricity from Nepal’s hydropower projects during the power summit organised in Kathmandu on…

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India’s private players see big opportunities in Nepal’s power sector with eye on region

Kathmandu: Indian private and government owned companies have been queueing up ahead of Nepal's Power Summit that has unrolled in…

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Should India make an exception and export wheat to Nepal?

Kathmandu: Nepal has formally requested India to supply 300,000 tonnes of the wheat to meet the demand of the flour…

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Nepal’s ruling alliance raises boundary disputes with India, China in Common Minimum Programme shifting earlier stance

Kathmandu: Nepal’s ruling alliance appears to have indicated that the country has a boundary dispute with China too along with…

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Power surplus Nepal seeks Indian market as energy exports become next growth frontier

Kathmandu: Nepal, which lived in the dark for over a decade between 2006 and mid-2017 with power outages lasting up…

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Nepali security guards who protected British in Afghanistan now face deportation

KATHMANDU: Nepali security guards who protected British embassy staff in Afghanistan, and who were airlifted to safety in the UK…

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Nepal’s PM to expand cabinet this week, Congress to get key ministerial portfolios including finance

KATHMANDU: Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda is all set to reshuffle his cabinet by the end of…

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Indian Embassy in Kathmandu claims Amritpal Singh hiding in Nepal: Report

Kathmandu: The Indian Embassy in Kathmandu has claimed that absconding pro-Khalistan radical Sikh preacher Amritpal Singh is currently hiding in…

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Nepal Prime Minister likely to visit India in second week of April

KATHMANDU: Nepali Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda is likely to pay an official visit to India next month,…

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Nepali Congress to join government next week as Prachanda, Deuba seek to bolster eight-party alliance

KATHMANDU: The Nepali Congress, largest party in Nepal's parliament, is all set to join the Prachanda-led coalition government next week,…

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Prime Minister Prachanda’s alleged involvement in mass murders in focus as hearing begins in Nepal’s top court

KATHMANDU: Nepal's Supreme Court started hearing a petition on Friday which seeks the immediate arrest of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal…

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Ram Chandra Paudel becomes Nepal’s third president backed by 8-party alliance

KATHMANDU: Lawmakers of federal and provincial assemblies have elected Ram Chandra Paudel as Nepal’s third president on Thursday. Paudel, a…

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Prachanda in trouble as Nepal’s top court examines role in mass murders

KATHMANDU: Nepal's Supreme Court has ordered the court administration to register two writ petitions against Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal…

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Ambassador Srivastava hands over India-aided college building in Nepal

KATHMANDU: India's Ambassador to Nepal Naveen Srivastava on Monday handed over the college building of Madan Bhandari Memorial College in…

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Nepal’s ruling alliance breaks down as Oli’s CPN-UML quits government

KATHMANDU: Nepal's ruling alliance dominated by left-wing political outfits collapsed on Monday as the CPN (UML), led by former Prime…

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China peddles fake news, says running freight train to Kathmandu

KATHMADU: Ji Rong, Counsellor at the Department of Asian Affairs of Chinese foreign ministry on Wednesday tweeted that the first…

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Congress, UML file nominations for Nepal’s presidential elections amid dramatic political realignments

KATHMANDU: Nepali Congress' senior leader Ramchandra Poudel and CPN (UML)'s Subash Chandra Nembang are the two contestants in Nepal's presidential…

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Prachanda ditches Oli, agrees to elect Congress candidate as Nepal’s next president

KATHMANDU: Nepal's eight mainstream political parties including Nepali Congress and CPN (Maoist Center) have agreed to support the Nepali Congress…

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China’s ambassador steps up political engagements ahead of crucial presidential elections in Nepal

KATHMANDU: Chinese Ambassador to Nepal, Chen Song, has stepped up his high-level political engagements in Kathmandu as political parties in…

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Late Gen. Bipin Rawat honoured in Nepal, bell in his name placed inside revered temple

In commemoration of India's late Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat, a bell has been placed at Nepal's revered…

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Watch: Thousands throng Nepal’s Pashupatinath temple during Mahashivaratri celebrations

KATHMANDU: Thousands of Hindu devotees including hundreds of sadhus from India have thronged the revered Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu on…

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