India and Nepal have inked a pact to boost cooperation in the education sector as New Delhi pledged to provide Rs 25 million to improve infrastructure in one of the oldest institutions in the country'

Fearing a diplomatic cold war with India and its fallout, Nepal's caretaker government finally extended an olive branch to the southern neighbour, ordering an investigation into the attack on the Indi

At least 30 people were injured when a high speed bus skidded off the road and fell into a gorge in a Nepalese district.

Nepal’s last monarch Gyanendra Shah has asked people to address him by his name, saying that he is very much a “commoner” like them.
“Call me Gyanendra Shah. It makes me happy that way as I am already a commoner,” he said on Friday after inaugurating an NGO named after his daughter-in-law and f

Five Indians are among 10 people arrested in Nepal for their alleged involvement in separate cases of human trafficking and illegal arms trade rackets.

Veteran Nepali Congress leader Sushil Koirala was on Wednesday elected president of the country's oldest democratic party, defeating his nearest rival and ex-Premier Sher Bahadur Deuba by a margin of

Hundreds of Tibetan warriors who doggedly fought a 15-year guerrilla war against the Chinese in Tibet after being trained and armed by the US Central Intelligence Agency now have a memorial that is li

Nepalese Parliament’s fourth bid to elect a Prime Minister fell flat on Friday as both Maoist chief Prachanda and his NC rival Ram Chandra Poudyal failed to win simple majority in the 601-strong house, plunging the country into a deeper political crisis in the absence of a government.

Dismissing reports that the UN had given a clean chit to Indian-origin “bikini killer” Charles Sobhraj, the world body’s human rights agency has said it has neither acquitted nor called for the release of the notorious criminal serving life term here in a murder case.

Four years after a peace agreement ended the decade-old Maoist insurgency in Nepal, the Army is locked in a fresh dispute with the former guerrillas with both sides vowing to recruit new blood. The UN warned that the move would violate the peace pact.