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KATHMANDU, Nepal, May 12 (UPI) -- Police in Nepal arrested more than 500 people Sunday protesting Chinese policy in Tibet outside the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu. ... Scores of Buddhist nuns joined Sunday's demonstration, which was almost entirely women, Nepal News...
Kathmandu: With just 17 days left for the abolition of his two-century-old ancestral throne, Nepal's distressed King Gyanendra Monday sought divine intervention once again, offering animal sacrifices to a Hindu goddess of power. This is the embattled monarch's first...
Nepal's King Gyanendra made a rare public appearance Monday, taking part in a religious ceremony just weeks before he is expected to be dethroned by a special assembly elected last month. ... Gyanendra drove to Dakshinkali temple located just south of the capital,...
'If anyone says he is not afraid of anything, either he is lying or he is a Gorkha,' S H.F.J. Manekshaw, the Indian Army's first and only field marshal, once said. Manekshaw preferred calling himself Sam 'Bahadur' as a sign of respect for the brave Gorkha soldiers, a large number of whom came...
None of the 25 newly elected political parties to the Constituent Assembly (CA) have expressed support to giving continuity to monarchy, local newspaper The Rising Nepal reported on Monday. Even some small parties recognized widely ... ... None of the 25 newly elected...
US President George W. Bush's remark of the Indian middle class consuming more than ever before certainly seems to hold true at a busy highway eatery on the outskirts of Jalandhar city that attracts over 300 people an hour - or 7,000 every day! ... Clients savour...
Enraged by daily protests by Tibetans in Kathmandu since March, China Monday said the Nepal government should adopt 'very severe punishment' for the ringleaders and emulate India's example in arresting them. ... 'The government cannot arrest them in the day and release...
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Fighting fires is all in a day’s work for Wolé Adesemoye. But in the last seven months the 28-year-old has taken on a whole new series of challenges – competing in tribal sports around the world. ... Fighting fires is all in a day's work for Wolé Adesemoye. But in the...
