By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal won a parliamentary vote of confidence on Wednesday, a week after he formed his third coalition in just…
NEW DELHI/KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kumar Dahal will visit India next week and hold talks with his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to strengthen the historically deep ties…
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Friday named centrist politician and economic expert Prakash Sharan Mahat as finance minister, a presidential statement said,…
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – A Shree Airlines Dash 8 turboprop made a safe emergency landing in Nepal on Thursday after an “indication of fire” in one of its…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two U.S. citizens and two legal permanent U.S. residents were among those killed in Nepal’s worst air disaster in 30 years, in which at least 71 people…
(Reuters) – Mountainous Nepal, where dozens of people were killed on Sunday when a plane crashed in the tourist town of Pokhara, has a history of deadly air crashes. Here…
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the release, due to his age, of Charles Sobhraj, a French national known as “the serpent” who police…
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal will end an eight-month ban on the import of cars, expensive mobile phones and liquor on Friday as the country’s foreign currency reserves…
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – While Nepal awaited the outcome of national elections its central bank opted to hold its benchmark interest rates at 8.5% late on Sunday, and…
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal’s annual inflation surged to 8.64% for the month that ended in mid-September compared with 3.49% a year earlier, central bank data showed on…
By Dan Whitcomb (Reuters) – The body of top American mountaineer Hilaree Nelson was found on Wednesday near a 26,700-foot (8,138-meter) mountain peak in Nepal where she went missing earlier…
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU -Nepal’s central bank on Friday raised its benchmark policy rate at which it lends to commercial banks to 8.5% from 7%, as part of efforts to…
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU – Nepal’s economy is expected to expand by 5.8% in the current financial year ending mid-July, helped by a pick-up in economic activity following a fall…
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU – Nepal’s state-owned oil company has hiked the retail prices for fuels, including petrol and cooking gas, by up to 12.5% because of rising global oil…
By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU -Nepal is tightening imports of cars, gold and cosmetics as its foreign exchange reserves have fallen, a central bank official said on Monday, after the government…
Nepali police fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters objecting to a U.S.-funded infrastructure program presented to parliament on Sunday for ratification, witnesses and officials in the capital told…