New Delhi, March 26 (IANS) A day before Nepal’s Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), which swept the March 5 national election, officially names its Prime Minister on Thursday, the interim government was reportedly forced to release a probe agency report that investigated the September 8-9 firing on youngsters in Kathmandu, that led to several deaths.The commission, led by former Justice Gauri Bahadur Karki, submitted its report on March 8 to Prime Minister Sushila Karki.Earlier reports suggested t…
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New Delhi, March 25 (IANS) The Delhi Police Crime Branch on Wednesday busted a major international arms trafficking module with links to Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh, operating from the Walled City area of the national capital. Ten key operatives of the interstate network have been arrested, and a large cache of sophisticated foreign-made weapons has been recovered. According to officials, a total of 21 high-end weapons, including a submachine gun and several semi-automatic pistols, along with…
New Delhi, March 24 (IANS) The Central Committee of Nepal’s Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), which swept the March 5 general election, is scheduled to meet on Thursday afternoon to elect its Parliamentary Party leader, according to reports from Kathmandu. In all probability, the party will name the engineer-rapper and social media sensation, Balendra Shah, who it had earlier projected as the Prime Ministerial face.The 35-year-old leader, popularly known as ‘Balen’, emerged as a prominent politica…
Kathmandu, March 23 (IANS) Nepal has decided to allow solo foreign trekkers to visit designated restricted areas, ending the existing permit system that previously allowed access only to groups. The country has designated 15 areas across 13 mountain districts bordering China as restricted zones, where foreigners cannot travel without obtaining special permits and fees to the authorities. The areas include Upper Mustang, Taplejung, Sankhuwasabha, Solukhumbu, Dolakha, Rasuwa, two areas of Gorkha, …
Kathmandu/New Delhi, March 23 (IANS) Even before a new government officially assumes office in Nepal, certain contentious issues coming to the public domain recently are raising serious questions over the previous government’s economic and ideological connections with China. Though former Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli faced strong political opposition within, and diplomatic resistance outside over security issues, he included several ambitious projects under Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative (…
New Delhi, March 22 (IANS) India, which holds the world’s fifth largest rare earth reserves and the required technology to produce these minerals, can play a crucial role in breaking China’s near-monopoly on these critical minerals required for making electric vehicles, wind turbines, hi-tech electronic goods and defence equipment, according to an article.The global race for rare earth elements (REEs) has shifted from the margins of industrial policy to the centre of geopolitics. China current…
Mumbai, March 21 (IANS) The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has revealed the schedule for India’s upcoming two-match T20I series against Ireland. The World Cup champions will tour Ireland in June for a couple of T20Is, to be played on June 26 and 28 in Belfast.This will be India’s first T20I assignment following their T20 World Cup 2026 victory and will begin immediately after the ODI series against Afghanistan. Team India will face Afghanistan in a one-off Test match, followed by…
Kathmandu, March 20 (IANS) The Nepal government on Friday confirmed that a Nepali national working aboard a vessel navigating the maritime corridor of the Strait of Hormuz has been detained by the Iranian authorities amid the ongoing war involving the US, Israel, and Iran. The news of Nepali national Amrit Jha’s detention has surfaced at a time when Iran has shut the usually busy maritime choke point of the Strait of Hormuz, through which around 20 per cent of the world’s oil passes. With mi…
Chandigarh, March 19 (IANS) In a major breakthrough, Punjab Police’s Anti Gangster Task Force (AGTF), in a joint operation with the Special Task Force of Haryana, on Thursday, arrested two shooters involved in the murder of a property dealer in Chandigarh’s Sector-9 after a brief exchange of firing and recovered three sophisticated weapons from their possession, Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav said here. Those arrested have been identified as Rajan alias Piyush Pehalwan, a r…
New Delhi/Kathmandu, March 18 (IANS) While the Gen-Z movement has emerged worldwide, Nepal is the only country to bring about swift political transformation. Nepal’s recent election results have defied expectation, leaving observers questioning whether they underestimated the wave of Balendra Shah, with his party, Rashtriya Swatantra Party (RSP) – having entered the country’s political arena only in 2022 – winning close to a two-thirds majority, a report said on Wednesday. “Since the advent …