November 16th, 2008 - 3:22 pm ICT by IANS
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Kathmandu, Nov 16 (IANS) Not content with abolishing the country's 239-year-old monarchy and stripping the deposed royal family of their legal immunity, Nepal's new Maoist-led government is now seeking to remove the ...
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October 30th, 2008 - 4:42 pm ICT by IANS
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Kathmandu, Oct 30 (IANS) Even as Nepal celebrated a clutch of festivals with fanfare, fresh tragedy smote the former kingdom's deposed royal family with the last king's son-in-law succumbing to a sudden ...
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October 12th, 2008 - 3:32 pm ICT by IANS
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Kathmandu, Oct 12 (IANS) Nepal is a constitutional monarchy whose recent highest-level contact with neighbour India is the visit by King Birendra and Queen Aishwarya and the Indian government is supporting Nepal's ...
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August 18th, 2008 - 6:30 pm ICT by IANS
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Kathmandu, Aug 18 (IANS) Nepal's Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal “Prachanda”, who assumed office Monday as the first Prime Minister of the federal democratic republic, was born in a farmer's family in ...
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August 7th, 2008 - 1:24 pm ICT by IANS
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, Aug 7 (IANS) The man who witnessed the gunning down of his loved ones at the horrific massacre in Nepal's royal palace and survived despite injuries will start a ...
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July 23rd, 2008 - 9:07 pm ICT by IANS
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, July 23 (IANS) Was crown prince Dipendra wrongly implicated for the 2001 palace massacre that wiped out the royal family to protect the real assassins? A Nepali tabloid claimed ...
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July 23rd, 2008 - 2:09 pm ICT by IANS
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, July 23 (IANS) As the Himalayan republic of Nepal Wednesday sought to remove the last vestige of its 239-year-old monarchy by appointing its first president as head of state, ...
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June 12th, 2008 - 6:17 pm ICT by IANS
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, June 12 (IANS) Even as he handed over his crown, sceptre and throne to the government and quit the palace for ever, Nepal's last king Gyanendra continues to be ...
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June 10th, 2008 - 7:00 pm ICT by IANS
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, June 10 (IANS) The Narayanhity royal palace, Nepal's best-known landmark built in the 18th century by the Shah kings to commemorate their bloody victory over the Rana prime ministers, ...
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June 1st, 2008 - 3:59 pm ICT by admin
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, June 1 (IANS) Seven years after his shocking murder in the tightly guarded royal palace, the ghost of king Birendra continues to haunt Nepal with the new republic Sunday ...
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May 29th, 2008 - 7:06 pm ICT by admin
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, May 29 (IANS) Destiny gave Nepal's last monarch Gyanendra two chances to ascend the throne though normally he would never have been king. But the headstrong ruler gambled away ...
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May 28th, 2008 - 2:17 pm ICT by admin
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Kathmandu, May 28 (IANS)Milestones in life of ex-king Gyanendra of Nepal: * Nov 1950: Baby prince Gyanendra crowned king as three-year-old after his grandfather Tribhuvan and father Mahendra flee to India
* June ...
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May 23rd, 2008 - 8:49 pm ICT by admin
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Kathmandu, May 23 (IANS) The Narayanhity royal palace is almost as old as Nepal's Shah dynasty of kings but destined by fate to live on even after the kings of Nepal cease ...
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May 8th, 2008 - 2:21 pm ICT by admin
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, May 8 (IANS) As Nepal's cornered King Gyanendra awaits a countdown to the abolition of his crown, will his last days in the endangered royal palace be livened up ...
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April 24th, 2008 - 5:52 pm ICT by admin
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, April 24 (IANS) Officially declared the largest party in Nepal after the crucial constituent assembly elections and poised to head the new government, Nepal's former Maoist guerrillas will press ...
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April 10th, 2008 - 1:36 pm ICT by admin
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Kathmandu, April 10 (IANS) Nepalese elections at a glance: 1769: Gorkha king Prithvi Narayan Shah overruns other principalities and founds the Shah dynasty of rulers of a 'unified' Nepal.
1951: King Tribhuvan, present ...
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April 6th, 2008 - 6:04 pm ICT by admin
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London, April 6 (IANS) Devyani Rana, the princess whose forbidden love caused the massacre of the Nepali royal family, says the younger generation in Nepal no longer wants a monarchy and that ...
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March 26th, 2008 - 12:48 pm ICT by admin
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By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, March 26 (IANS) There was rampant misuse by Nepal's royal family of money from a nature conservation fund earlier headed by the king and the crown prince, says a ...
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