By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 20 (IANS) Nepal's historic peace pact, which ended a decade of violent communist insurgency, turned three years Friday under the threat of unravelling. On this date in 2006, the ...

Agartala/Aizawl, Nov 19 (IANS) The central and Tripura governments have asked Mizoram to resolve the long-standing deadlock on the repatriation of 35,000 Reang refugees to the state, Tripura Chief Minister Manik ...

Kolkata, Nov 19 (IANS) The West Bengal government has written a letter to the centre asking the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to highlight the Sundarbans issue in the Copenhagen ...

By Dipankar De Sarkar London, Nov 18 (IANS) Indian and other non-European migrants could find themselves doubly disadvantaged in the recession if immigration proposals currently before parliament end up wrongly targeting legal ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 18 (IANS) Close on the heels of the Indian election authorities recognising third gender voters, Nepal's Election Commission has also begun a massive project to grant recognition to ...

By Dipankar De Sarkar London, Nov 18 (IANS) Police were reported to have arrested the estranged India-born husband of a young British Punjabi woman who died Monday after being found on the streets ...

By Dipankar De Sarkar London, Nov 17 (IANS) Hundreds of Al Qaeda terrorists remain in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan, continuing to receive explosives and weapons training in camps ...

By Dipankar De Sarkar London, Nov 15 (IANS) After 50 years of charming African audiences with its song-and-dance capers, Bollywood is set to rendezvous with the Nigerian film industry at an international ...

By Dipankar De Sarkar London, Nov 15 (IANS) After 50 years of charming African audiences with its song-and-dance capers, Bollywood is set to rendezvous with its Nigerian counterpart at an international film ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 13 (IANS) A feisty Nepali actress has done a testosterone-pumping act in public with none other than Nepal's Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, getting the Maoist supremo ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 13 (IANS) Nepal's former Maoist guerrillas Friday kept up their siege on the heart of the government in the capital for the second consecutive day, ignoring a plea ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 12 (IANS) Sporadic violence erupted and at least a dozen Maoist lawmakers and an ex-deputy prime minister were injured in clashes with security forces as Nepal's former Maoist ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 11 (IANS) Faced with the spectre of violence erupting in the Nepal capital Thursday after the former Maoist guerrillas warned they would go ahead with protests despite a ...

Agartala, Nov 11 (IANS) Life was paralysed in parts of northern Tripura Wednesday following a strike called by political parties to protest a terror attack on the families of surrendered militants that ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 11 (IANS) Nepal police have busted a major call girl racket being run by an Indian with tentacles in major Indian metros and with audacious plans to expand ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 11 (IANS) Within a week of uncovering a Chinese sex workers' network here, Nepal police have now busted a budding sex empire run by an Indian with tentacles ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 11 (IANS) Nepal's civil servants went on the warpath Wednesday after a junior minister ran amok, assaulting the topmost bureaucrat of a Terai district. The agriculture and cooperatives ministry ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 10 (IANS) Nepal's best-loved comedian duo, who have also become the voice of the fledgling republic's conscience, have joined the growing protests in Nepal against the horrific slaughter ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 10 (IANS) Thousands of people, including the disabled, sick and children, were left stranded on the highways leading to Kathmandu valley as Nepal's former Maoist guerrillas Tuesday enforced ...

By Dipankar De Sarkar London, Nov 9 (IANS) Citing the urgent need to cut India's fiscal and revenue deficits, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Sunday ruled out any further special packages to stimulate ...

By Dipankar De Sarkar London, Nov 9 (IANS) Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee has said he does not visualise the border dispute between India and China flaring up into a conflict. If anything, trade ...

By Dipankar De Sarkar London, Nov 8 (IANS) India's Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and his counterparts from other G20 countries have agreed to maintain financial stimulus packages aimed at bailing out ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 8 (IANS) Nepal's northern neighbour China has picked up the cue from its business rival in the region India to gradually consolidate its toehold in this water-rich country's ...

By Dipankar De Sarkar London, Nov 8 (IANS) Indian companies continued to invest in London in the 2008-09 financial year despite the global recession and are set to emulate the strong growth registered ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 7 (IANS) Ignoring a rebuff by Nepal's ruling parties, who have asked the UN not to intervene in the republic's internal matters, a top UN official is suggesting ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 6 (IANS) Their morale boosted by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urging for a national government in Nepal, the former Maoist guerrillas Friday called off another protest that ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 5 (IANS) Paralysed by Maoist protests, Nepal's beleaguered government Thursday lashed out at the UN, accusing it of meddling in Nepal's internal matters. As the former Maoist guerrillas kept ...

By Dipankar De Sarkar London, Nov 3 (IANS) British union leaders are to meet lawmakers from a key manufacturing belt Wednesday in what has been dubbed an 'MPs' summit' to discuss the fate ...

By Sudeshna Sarkar Kathmandu, Nov 3 (IANS) A group of Buddhists from Nepal as well as animal rights organisations have begun urging India's state administrations and animal welfare organisations to help prevent the ...

By Dipankar De Sarkar London, Nov 2 (IANS) Optimism that climate change can be managed has fallen more sharply in India than in any other major economy of the world, according to an ...