Centre coming up to protect vultures
May 17th, 2012 - 4:29 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, May 17 (IANS) Wildlife experts and foresters are working with the Uttar Pradesh government to set up a conservation centre for vultures, whose population has drastically fallen in India.The ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Conservation meets traditional art - with corporate help (With Images)
April 21st, 2012 - 4:01 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) Conservation and wildlife are meeting the arts and traditional crafts of India to spread a powerful green message in the country. And the movement is ... Read more...
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Uttar Pradesh national park inundated
August 23rd, 2011 - 11:15 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Aug 23 (IANS) Release of water from overflowing dams in Nepal has flooded large parts of the terai belt in Uttar Pradesh, including areas of the Dudhwa National Park, ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Darjeeling Dooars, Terai tea gardens to lose over Rs.220 crore
August 11th, 2011 - 10:08 pm ICT by IANS
Kolkata, Aug 11 (IANS) Tea gardens in northern West Bengal's Himalayan foothills (Dooars) and plains (Terai) region are set to lose over Rs.220 crore this year following a stalemate over ... Read more...
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Gorkhaland will never be created: West Bengal CM
February 21st, 2011 - 12:35 pm ICT by ANI
Darjeeling, Feb 21 (ANI): West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has said that the separate state of Gorkhaland would never be carved out.Addressing a public rally here on Sunday, Bhattacharjee said: "The ... Read more...
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GJM activists kick off relay hunger strike over separate Gorkhaland demand
May 10th, 2010 - 8:59 pm ICT by ANI
Siliguri (West Bengal), May 10 (ANI): Gorkha Janamukti Morcha (GJM) activists kick started a relay hunger strike in West Bengal's Siliguri town on Monday to give a fillip to their movement over ... Read more...
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Gorkhaland interlocutor for early solution to separate state issue
April 22nd, 2010 - 1:29 pm ICT by ANI
Siliguri, Apr 22 (ANI): Vijay Madan, the interlocutor for talks on the formation of a separate hill state of Gorkhaland, hopes for an early resolution to the issue.Talking to reporters after ... Read more...
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Protests for separate Gorkhaland continue in Siliguri
January 30th, 2010 - 1:29 pm ICT by ANI
Siliguri (West Bengal), Jan 30 (ANI): Activists of the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJMM), who are spearheading the movement for a separate Gorkhaland state, blocked the national highway-55 (NH-55) for around two-hours ... Read more...
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India, Nepal to hold talks on security, terrorism
November 4th, 2009 - 7:34 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Nov 4 (IANS) India and Nepal will begin two-day home secretary level talks Friday with effective cooperation in combating terrorist activities and trans-border crimes high on the agenda, an official ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Three years on, Nepal remains conflict zone and a killing field after peace agreement
September 22nd, 2009 - 4:46 pm ICT by ANI
Kathmandu, Sep.22 (ANI): Almost three years after the signing of a Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), Nepal continues to remain a conflict zone with no respite in killings, abductions and serious rights violations.The ... Read more...
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India offers ‘full support’ to Nepal’s peace process
August 22nd, 2009 - 11:20 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Aug 22 (IANS) India Saturday offered its "full support" to the peace process in Nepal, with both countries also saying they would hold discussions on reworking their Treaty of ... Read more...
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Indian minister to visit Nepal
July 10th, 2009 - 6:48 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, July 10 (IANS) Less than a month after India sent its Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon to Nepal, Minister for Parliamentary Affairs and Water Resources Pawan Kumar Bansal is arriving in Kathmandu ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
India alarmed by rising mob attacks near Nepal border
April 27th, 2009 - 5:13 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, April 27 (IANS) Concerned by the growing mob attacks in Nepal's Terai region near the Indian border, the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu has asked its security and other related departments to ... Read more...
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Nepal kings’ arch-enemy returns after 100 years
March 9th, 2009 - 3:21 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, March 9 (IANS) When he died in 1877, Bal Narsingh Kunwar had irretrievably changed the course of Nepal's history, reducing the mighty Shah kings to figureheads while his clan ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Nepal Maoists expel top Madhesi leader
February 14th, 2009 - 9:29 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Feb 14 (IANS) Within 48 hours of celebrating the 14th anniversary of their armed insurrection, Nepal's Maoist party Saturday expelled a top leader from the Terai plains following a split in ... Read more...
Posted in Politics |
Stray tiger hurt or not remains a mystery
February 9th, 2009 - 8:27 pm ICT by IANS
Lucknow, Feb 9 (IANS) Barely 36 hours after Uttar Pradesh wildlife officials claimed to have "killed" or "seriously wounded" a tiger that has been on the prowl close to human habitats in ... Read more...
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26,000 people face food insecurity in Nepal, reports UN
February 4th, 2009 - 10:51 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Feb 4 (Xinhua) A UN aid agency Wednesday said that about 26,000 people in Nepal's western districts are facing food insecurity due to inadequate crop yield, soaring food prices and lack ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
Ethnic Madhesis seek autonomy in Nepal
January 14th, 2009 - 2:46 pm ICT by ANI
Rupandehi (Nepal), Jan 14 (ANI): Ethnic Madhesis living in the Terai region of Nepal staged protest against the ruling Maoist Government accusing it of discriminating against them and treating them as ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
Terror in Nepal’s Terai as armed group’s ultimatum ends
December 20th, 2008 - 12:49 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Dec 20 (IANS) Terror stalks Nepal's lowlands with the expiry of an ultimatum given by an armed group to hill communities to quit the plains and the murder in retaliation of ... Read more...
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3 killed in Nepal as festival truce ends (Second Lead)
October 14th, 2008 - 9:06 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Oct 14 (IANS) A blast in a market in southern Nepal Tuesday, the last day of a long Hindu festival celebrated throughout the Himalayan republic, killed three people and signified the ... Read more...
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3 killed in Nepal as festival truce ends (Lead)
October 14th, 2008 - 8:44 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu, Oct 14 (IANS) A blast in a market in southern Nepal Tuesday, the last day of a long Hindu festival celebrated throughout the Himalayan republic, killed three people and signified the ... Read more...
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Emotional Prachanda wants India to build rail, power projects (Lead)
September 16th, 2008 - 11:05 pm ICT by IANS
New Delhi, Sep 16 (IANS) An emotional Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' Tuesday recalled his old association with India and said New Delhi should play a major role to strengthen ... Read more...
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Nepali police gun down armed group chief
August 30th, 2008 - 4:53 pm ICT by IANS
Kathmandu,, Aug 30 (Xinhua) Nepali police have shot dead the chief of an underground extremist outfit called Terai Army, responsible for a series of subversions in the capital, a media report said ... Read more...
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Terai divided as Nepal searches for president
July 21st, 2008 - 11:00 am ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, July 21 (IANS) A deep rift in Nepal's Terai plains became clear Monday as the new republic held presidential polls again to choose a successor for deposed king ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
Anti-Madhes protesters shut down Nepal’s Terai region
July 10th, 2008 - 3:13 pm ICT by IANS
By Sudeshna Sarkar
Kathmandu, July 10 (IANS) Twenty-two ethnic organisations opposing the creation of a single state for people of Indian origin Thursday shut down Nepal's Terai plains, blocking highways near the Indian ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
Nepals Constituent Assembly session disrupted for 7th time
July 4th, 2008 - 12:15 am ICT by ANI
Kathmandu, July 3 (ANI): The parliamentary session of Nepals Constituent Assembly (CA) was disrupted for the seventh consecutive time on Thursday.The CA session was adjourned till Friday as the Madhesi lawmakers ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
Madhesi demands to be included in constitution
July 1st, 2008 - 11:40 pm ICT by ANI
Kathmandu, July 1 (ANI): The major three parties of Nepal on Tuesday agreed to introduce a supplementary amendment bill along with the Fifth Amendment bill to the interim constitution to address ... Read more...
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Demand for a single Madhes state will disintegrate the country: Khanal
June 30th, 2008 - 7:17 pm ICT by ANI
Kathmandu , June 30 (ANI): Communist Party of NepalUnified Marxist-Leninist (CPN-UML) General Secretary Jhala Nath Khanal on Monday said that the demand for one Madhes one state will lead the country ... Read more...
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Are the days numbered for Nepali Gorkhas in Indian Army?
May 12th, 2008 - 11:51 am ICT by admin
By Ritu Sharma
New Delhi, May 12 (IANS) "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 ... Read more...
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Nepalese Maoist leader Hisila Yami coming to India Saturday
April 25th, 2008 - 7:36 am ICT by admin
New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) In the first visit to India of a senior Maoist leader from Nepal after the elections, Hisila Yami, a politburo member and wife of senior leader Babruram ... Read more...
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Maoists set to sweep the Constituent Assembly polls in Nepal
April 14th, 2008 - 4:12 pm ICT by admin
Kathmandu, Apr 14 (ANI): The Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists has so far won 89 of the 163 constituencies for which results have been declared, and appears to be heading for a ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
West Bengal police arrest three suspects in Siliguri blast
April 4th, 2008 - 10:20 pm ICT by admin
Siliguri, April 4 (ANI): The West Bengal police on Friday arrested three persons suspected to be involved in the bomb blast that took place in Siliguri, killing three people.According to the ... Read more...
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Five trained jumbos shifted to Dudhwa National Park to monitor rhino and tiger
March 23rd, 2008 - 3:09 pm ICT by admin
Jaldapara, Mar 23 (ANI): Five trained jumbo elephants have been shifted from Jaldapara Wildlife Sanctuary in Bengal to the Dudhwa National Park in Uttar Pradesh by forest department to monitor the ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Nepal Election Commission says security in Terai unsatisfactory
March 11th, 2008 - 2:16 pm ICT by admin
Kathmandu, Mar.11 (ANI):The Election Commission of Nepal has expressed worries that the security situation in some districts of Terai is still not satisfactory enough.
During an interaction with one dozen ministers of the ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
Madhesi parties gear up for Nepal polls
March 9th, 2008 - 1:44 pm ICT by admin
(Commentary)
By Shubha Singh
One week after the Seven Party Alliance government and the Madhesi leaders signed an agreement ending the agitation in Nepal's Terai region, an election mood is slowly settling over the ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |