Everything you need to know about Baran: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Baran: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Jaipur, April 15 (IANS) Three people, including an 11-year-old child, were killed in two freak accidents in Rajasthan Sunday, police said.
New Delhi, April 6 (IANS) Leading business lobby Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has offered all help for Nepal's economic development.
Washington, Jan 18 (ANI): Sleep helps the brain to protect emotional memories, suggest researchers.
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Washington, Jan 18 (ANI): Sleep helps the brain to protect emotional memories, suggest researchers.
Kathmandu, Nov. 27 (ANI): Asserting that India is committed to assist the government and people of Nepal in these processes of historic change, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said relations with Kathmandu are and will continue to be a matter of the highest priority for New Delhi.
Kathmandu, Nov 26(ANI): Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai today arrived in Kathmandu to prepare for Union Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's visit to the country.
New Delhi, Nov 26(ANI): The Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) between India and Nepal will be signed tomorrow by the Finance Ministers of both the countries in Kathmandu.
Kathmandu, Oct 19 (ANI): Nepal Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai on Wednesday made it clear that his visit to India would purely focus on economic and bilateral cooperation rather than on political issues.
Kathmandu, Aug 25(ANI): Nepali President Ram Baran Yadav has ordered the country's Parliament to initiate procedures to elect a new Prime Minister through voting.
Kathmandu, Aug 21 (ANI): Nepali caretaker Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal has requested President Ram Baran Yadav to extend time frame for parties to form a government.
Kathmandu, Aug 19(ANI): China has urged Nepal's political parties to arrive at a consensus and settle their disputes.
Kathmandu, Aug.15 (ANI): Nepal's embattled Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal resigned on Sunday, following intense pressure from the main opposition Nepali Congress and his key ally Maoists.
New Delhi, June 10 (ANI): The Russian Cultural Center is playing host these days to sixty works of fifty contemporary Russian artists from the private collection of Indian writer, poet, artist and diplomat Abhay Kumar.
Kathmandu, Apr. 27 (ANI): The budget session of the Nepal Parliament will begin from May 2.
Kathmandu, Apr.12 (ANI): Nepal's Prime Minister, Jhala Nath Khanal, has expanded his eight-member cabinet by inducting five United Marxist Leninist (UML) leaders as cabinet ministers and seven others as state ministers. The ministers will take oath of office on Wednesday.
Toronto, Jan 25 (ANI): The husband of Amanpreet Kaur Bahia, the Indian-origin woman who was killed in her Surrey home in BC, Canada, and two others have been charged with first-degree murder four years after her death.
Kathmandu, Jan 18 (ANI): Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, who is presently on a three-day visit to Kathmandu, on Tuesday said that India is committed to working with them for a democratic and stable Nepal.
Kathmandu, Dec 21 (ANI): Indian Army Chief General VK Singh, who is in Kathmandu on a four-day official visit to Nepal, will be decorated with the honorary rank of General of the Nepal Army.
Washington, Dec 07 (ANI): Researchers have come up with a unique method to convince children to eat better and exercise more to fight obesity- video games.
Kathmandu, Sept.12 (ANI): A Chinese delegation, led by a senior leader of the Communist Party of China, He Yong, is in Nepal holding discussions on the current political situation in the Himalayan state.
Kathmandu, Jul 20 (ANI): With just a day left for the election of a new Prime Minister in Nepal, political parties have intensified their internal and bilateral discussions on government formation.
Kathmandu, July 2 (ANI): The CPN-UML has said the leadership of the UCPN (Maoist) for the next government could be considered only if the latter implements past agreements.
Kathmandu, July 1 (ANI): Chairman of UCPN (Maoist) Pushpa Kamal Dahal alias Prachanda on Thursday said that his party should get to lead the next government in the country.
London, June 26 (ANI): Cate Blanchett theatre is 'going green' with the launch of an eco-friendly construction project at her Sydney Theatre Company headquarters in Australia.
Kathmandu, Mar 29 (ANI): Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' seems to have developed an affinity with Indian yoga guru Ramdev.
Kathmandu, March 20 (ANI): Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav on Saturday condoled the passing away of former Nepal Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala, who died earlier in the day at his daughter Sujata Koirala's residence in Mandikatar.
Washington, March 11(ANI): A new study has tracked the mysterious cosmic 'dark flow' to twice the distance originally reported in the Universe.
Washington, March 2 (ANI): New research indicates that a rare, ancient polar bear fossil discovered in Norway in 2004 has revealed that polar bears evolved recently and adapted quickly.
Washington, Feb 19 (ANI): The natural compound sceptrin, which is found in marine sponges, reduces cancer cell motility (movement) and has very low toxicity, researchers have found.
Kathmandu, Feb 19 (ANI): Nepal President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav has termed his India visit as a successful one and indicated that prospects for strengthening bilateral ties between the two countries are bright.
New Delhi, Feb 18 (ANI): New Delhi on Thursday described Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav's four-day India visit as historic.
Kathmandu, Jan 21 (ANI): Visiting Indian Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor on Wednesday appreciated the contribution of Nepalese soldiers in the Indian armed forces.
New Delhi, Feb 16 (ANI): Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav, who is on a four-day visit to India, was on Tuesday accorded a ceremonial welcome at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi.
Kathmandu, Feb 6 (ANI): Nepal Vice President Paramananda Jha who remains inactive after the Supreme Court verdict nullified his oath of office taken in Hindi language will retake the oath on Sunday.
Kathmandu, Feb 4 (ANI): The Council of Ministers (CoM) has approved Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav's three-day official visit to India, scheduled to start from February 15.
Kathmandu, Jan 22 (ANI): Indian Army Chief, General Deepak Kapoor, was decorated with the honorary rank of General of the Nepal Army by President Ram Baran Yadav here on Thursday.
Kathmandu, Jan 20 (ANI) Visiting Indian Army Chief General Deepak Kapoor met Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) General Chhatraman Singh Gurung here on Tuesday and discussed the security situation of the two countries including institutional cooperation and other matters of mutual interest.
Kolkata, Jan 17 (ANI): Veteran Marxist leader and former West Bengal Chief Minister Jyoti Basu died at the AMRI Hospital of multiple-organ failure at 11.47 a.m. on Sunday. He was 95.
Kathmandu, Jan.17 (ANI): India and Nepal on Sunday agreed that recent meetings of bilateral institutional mechanisms had reinvigorated the bilateral relationship in key areas.
Kathmandu, Jan 15 (ANI): Indian External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna arrived here today on his first official visit to Nepal.
New Delhi, Jan.15 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna will undertake a three-day visit to Nepal from today.
Kathmandu, Jan 14 (ANI): Hari Rokka, a Constituent Assembly member and analyst with close ties with the UCPN (Maoist), has said Indian External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna's visit to Nepal from Friday will hold special significance in the context of the future of Indo-Nepal ties.
New Delhi, Jan.14 (ANI): External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna will undertake a three-day visit to Nepal from January 15 to 17.
Kathmandu, Dec 22 (ANI): Nepal Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has asked UCPN (Maoist) Chairman Prachanda to shun violence.
Kathmandu, Dec 21 (ANI): Nepal Government has said the violence that occurred during the first day of the UCPN (Maoist) nationwide strike in which at least 24 people were injured and over 37 were arrested, will pose a serious threat to the ongoing peace process.
Kathmandu, Dec 20 (ANI): Normal life throughout Nepal was adversely affected on Sunday by a general strike called by the Unified CPN (Maoist).
Kathmandu, Dec 14 (ANI): Leaders of three major political parties of Nepal are meeting here today to find a solution to the prevailing political deadlock by finalizing a Common Resolution Motion (CMP).
New York, Dec. 13 (ANI): Terrorism experts agree militant Islam is becoming an American problem.
Kathmandu, Nov 13 (ANI): Cadres of the Unified CPN (Maoist) clashed with riot police while staging protest outside the country's administrative center, Singha Durbar, as part of their second -phase protests against President Ram Baran's move to overrule the erstwhile Maoists government's decision to sack the then army chief, General Rookmand Katawal.
Kathmandu, Oct 13 (ANI): Nepal President Dr Ram Baran Yadav on Tuesday called for effective use of intellect and expertise of the Non Resident Nepalis (NRN) for the development of Nepal.
Kathmandu, Sept 17 (ANI): The meeting between the Nepal Government and the Maoists to end the ongoing deadlock ended inconclusively as Maoists stuck to their demand on passing a resolution against President Ram Baran Yadav.
Kathmandu, Sep 14 (ANI): Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao who arrived here on a two-day visit, will meet President Ram Baran Yadav and Foreign Minister Sujata Koirala today.
Kathmandu, Sep 13 (ANI): Nepal police faced a tough time in providing security to the country's Finance Minister, Surendra Pandey as Maoist protestors pelted stones at his vehicle on Saturday.
Kathmandu, Sep 10 (ANI): General Chhatra Man Singh Gurung has formally assumed the post of new Nepal Chief of Army Staff (CoAS).
New Delhi, Sep 10 (ANI): Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao will pay a two-day visit to Nepal next week.
New Delhi, Aug 31 (ANI): Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje failed to meet senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Venkaiah Naidu citing health grounds and sent her son Dushyant in her place as representative.
Kathmandu, Aug 28 (ANI): The Madhesi parties has asked Nepal President Dr Ram Baran Yadav to find a respectable way out to Vice President Parmananda Jha's oath-retaking controversy.
Kathmandu, Aug 17 (ANI): The Unified CPN (Maoist) has told Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal not to sign any agreements including the Pancheshwar multi-purpose hydro-electric project during his visit to India from August 18.
London/Kathmandu, Aug 12 (ANI): The Chairman of the Unified CPN (Maoist), Prachanda, has said that Asian countries should develop a unified security strategy to combat US influence in South Asia.
Kathmandu, Aug 7 (ANI): CPN (Maoist) Chairman and former Prime Minster Prachanda on Friday said that the new Constitution cannot be drafted if President Dr Ram Baran Yadav's move to reinstate Chief of Army Staff (CoAS) General Rookmangud Katawal was not discussed in the parliament.
London/Kathmandu, July 26 (ANI): British actress Joanna Lumley will get a heroine's welcome and reception when she lands in Nepal on Sunday afternoon, for spearheading a high profile campaign to allow Gurkha soldiers and their families to settle in Britain.
Kathmandu, July 8 (ANI): Nepal Government will present its policies and programmes in the parliament on Thursday.
Kathmandu, July 2 (ANI): Former Nepal Prime Minister and Unified CPN (Maoist) Chairman Prachanda has claimed that a new government under the leadership of his party would be formed within next one-and-half months.
New Delhi June 20(ANI): Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon is visiting to Nepal for a two-day visit from today.
Kathmandu, June 19 (ANI): Lawmakers of the CPN (UML) have criticised the Nepal cabinet decision to overturn the previous government's decision taken on March 3 to sack Army Chief Rookmangud Katawal and appoint Lieutenant General Kul Bahadur Khadka as the acting chief.
Kathmandu, June 10 (ANI): The new CPN (UML) coalition and the CPN (Maoist) have agreed to find a way out of the current political impasse' by adopting a 'middle path' acceptable to all major political forces.
Kathmandu, June 5 (ANI): Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has expanded his three-member cabinet by inducting one deputy prime minister and seven new ministers including six ministers from Nepali Congress and one from the CPN (ML) here on Thursday.
Kathmandu, June 1 (IANS) India is concerned at the delay in the formation of a full-fledged government in Nepal even though the Himalayan republic chose a new prime minister to replace Maoist chief Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda eight days ago.
Kathmandu, May 31 (IANS) Struggling with infighting among its allies, Nepal's new Communist government faces more challenges this week with a dominant community calling a shutdown in Kathmandu valley Monday and the Maoist party announcing `token' strikes and protests two days later.
Kathmandu, May 31 (IANS) Nepal's former ruling party, the Maoists, will go on the warpath from Wednesday and enforce 'token' strikes to force the interim parliament into calling a vote on a contentious issue that brought the fall of their government.
Kathmandu, May 30 (IANS) After losing its battle with the army and being forced to step down from power, Nepal's Maoist party suffered a second reverse Saturday with the chairman of the interim parliament refusing to allow them a debate in the house.
Kathmandu, May 29 (IANS) Once unique as the only Hindu kingdom in the world, Nepal Friday celebrated the first anniversary of its transformation into a secular, federal republic under the shadow of dissent as the new communist government continued to cross swords with the former Maoist guerrillas.
Kathmandu, May 29 (ANI): Nepal's first Republic Day is being celebrated on Friday throughout the nation with various programmes, exactly one year after the Constituent Assembly declared Nepal a republic on May 29, 2008 ending the 240-year old monarchy.
Kathmandu, May 27 (ANI): The Unified CPN (Maoist) has refused Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal's call to join the government.
Kathmandu, May 27 (ANI): The Unified CPN (Maoist) has refused Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal's call to join the government.
Kathmandu, May 26 (ANI): : Nepali Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal today stressed on the need for a Constitution that is not just 'good', but is people friendly.
Kathmandu, May 26 (ANI): Newly elected Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will address the nation on Tuesday afternoon.
Kathmandu, May 25 (IANS) Veteran communist leader Madhav Kumar Nepal dispensed with god but kept the traditional Nepali attire Monday to take oath of office and secrecy at the head of a fledgling three-member cabinet, that, his rivals warned, would last only three months.
Kathmandu, May 25 (IANS) Veteran communist leader Madhav Kumar Nepal dispensed with god but kept the traditional Nepali attire Monday to take oath of office and secrecy at the head of a fledgling three-member cabinet, which his rivals warned would last only three months.
Kathmandu, May 25 (ANI): Newly elected Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal took oath of office and secrecy on Monday.
Kathmandu, May 25 (IANS) The one-year-old republic of Nepal got its second prime minister Monday with veteran communist leader Madhav Kumar Nepal being sworn in by President Ram Baran Yadav, in a brief ceremony in Rastrapati Bhavan, the presidential office, at 11.10 a.m. local time.
Kathmandu, May 25 (ANI): Newly elected Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal will be sworn in today.
Kathmandu, May 24 (IANS) Nepal's new Prime Minister-elect veteran Communist leader Madhav Kumar Nepal will be administered oath of office Tuesday, heralding an end to a three-week-long political vacuum that had engulfed the Himalayan republic after its Maoist government fell due to a row with the army.
Kathmandu, May 20 (DPA) The United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) defended itself late Tuesday against criticism from Nepalese political parties over its role in the verification process of Maoist combatants.
Kathmandu, May 19 (ANI): The NC-UML alliance today started discussions on seeking legal options, after they failed to form a new government despite clear majority in the parliament due to the continued obstruction of the House proceedings by Maoist Constituent Assembly (CA) members.
Kathmandu, May 18 (DPA) The Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) Monday obstructed parliament's regular session which was to have elected a new prime minister.
Kathmandu, May 18 (ANI): Nepal Vice-President Parmananda Jha on Monday accused the political parties of neglecting the Constitution-drafting process and engaging themselves in power-seeking game.
Kathmandu, May 18 (ANI): Nepal caretaker Prime Minister and Maoist chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has accused the UML-led new coalition of trying to derail the peace process.
Kathmandu, May 17 (DPA) Nepal's two main political parties, the Communist Party of Nepal - Unified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML) and the Nepali Congress, announced Sunday that they have the majority necessary to form a new government without the Maoists.
Kathmandu, May 17 (IANS) Madhav Kumar Nepal could become the new prime minister of Nepal with his CPN-UML-led alliance getting the crucial support from a Madheshi Janadhikar Forum (MJF) faction, media reports said Sunday.
Kathmandu, May 14 (ANI): A meeting of the Nepali Congress (NC), the CPN-UML and the Nepal Sadbhawana Party is underway here today as an attempt to the new government formation.
Kathmandu, May 13 (ANI): Caretaker Prime Minister and Unified CPN (Maoist) chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal 'Prachanda' has said that "weak political parties" are actively engaged in attempts to form a new government.
Kathmandu, May 13 (ANI): CPN-UML senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal toady met caretaker Prime Minister Prachanda and urged him to assist them in the formation of new government.
Kathmandu, May 12 (ANI): Leaders of the Madhesi parties today asked caretaker Prime Minister and Maoist chairman Prachanda to end the obstruction created by his party in the parliament against the formation of a majority government.
Kathmandu, May 11 (ANI): Maoist protesters and riot police clashed in front of Nepal's presidential palace on Monday.
Amid Maoists demonstration in various parts of the Himalayan nation after the Prachanda-led Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) failed to come to an agreement with other political parties
Kolkata, May 11 (ANI): Activists of the All India Nepalese Unity Forum (AINUF), a pro-Nepal Maoist group, took to the streets in Kolkata on Sunday to protest the reinstatement of army chief General Rookmangud Katwal by Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav.
Kathmandu, May 11 (ANI): Nepal President Ram Baran Yadav on Sunday wrote a letter to the country's parliament to start the procedure for the formation of a majority government.
Kathmandu, May 10 (IANS) Nepal's President Ram Baran Yadav Sunday asked the interim parliament to hold an election to choose a new prime minister after the nation's major parties failed to meet his Saturday deadline for stitching up a consensus coalition.
Kathmandu, May 9 (IANS) The crisis gripping Nepal since the fall of its first Maoist government eased slightly Saturday with the third largest party, the Communists, officially declaring their readiness to take the plunge.
