Kathmandu: Ram Chandra Paudel of Nepali Congress has been elected as the third President of Nepal. Paudel won by a majority of 18,284 votes against Subash Chandra Nembwang of the Nepali Communist Party. Poudal got 33,802 electoral votes while Nembwang got 15,518 votes. Paudel was the general candidate of the eight-party alliance comprising Nepali Congress … Read more
“Eyes on the target!” Concentrate!” JRLham yelled at the vanquished nun, looking her straight in the eye by the whitewashed temples at the Druk Amitabha Monastery on a hill overlooking Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu. JRLhamo and other members of her religious order are known in Nepal as kung fu nuns, belonging to an 800-year-old Buddhist sect … Read more
The last moments of airplane with 72 people on board that crashed last Sunday in Nepalleaving no survivors, were broadcast live by one of its passengers, a young Indian who was traveling with three friends for religious reasons and who decided to fly at the last minute. In a video broadcast on his Facebook page … Read more
Kathmandu: Pilot Anju Khatiwada also met the fate of a plane crash like the footprints of the fictional snowman Yeti. Like Anju, her first husband Deepak Pokharel, who was a pilot with Yeti Airlines, died 16 years ago in a similar plane crash. The Yeti Airlines flight flown by Deepak crashed on 21 June 2006 … Read more
The plane crash registered today in Nepal at crashing an aircraft with 72 people on board and at least 68 localized dead, It is the most serious that has occurred in the area in the last ten years. The Nepalese authorities raised to 68 the number of confirmed deaths after the accident of a plane … Read more
Kathmandu ∙ In Nepal, former Maoist guerrilla leader ‘Prachanda’ became the Prime Minister for the third time. Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda (68), a leader of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Center (CPN-MC), took oath of office. Prachanda, who ran in alliance with the ruling Nepali Congress, broke the alliance and joined hands with opposition … Read more
Kathmandu: Communist leader Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias ‘Prachanda’ will be sworn in as the new Prime Minister of Nepal today. President Bindya Devi Bhandari appointed Prachanda, Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist Center, as Prime Minister. Prachanda will take oath as Prime Minister today at 4 pm. This is the third time that Prachanda … Read more
Charles Sobhraj must be the subject of “identity checks”, according to the airport source, who specified that he was “neither wanted nor prosecuted” in France. Once these checks are carried out, he will be able to leave the airport, she added. On the plane taking him to Doha, where he was in transit on Friday … Read more