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Panel wants prosecution of ousted Nepal PM Oli over violence in Gen Z protests

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Panel wants prosecution of ousted Nepal PM Oli over violence in Gen Z protests

Former Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli. File | Photo Credit: Reuters A commission set up to investigate Nepal’s Gen Z protests in September last year — and the subsequent violence — has recommended action against then-Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli and other senior officials. The report of the commission, led by former Judge Gauri Bahadur…

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Student’s Death At KIIT Echoes In Nepal Parliament, MPs Demand Fair Probe

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Student’s Death At KIIT Echoes In Nepal Parliament, MPs Demand Fair Probe

Kathmandu: Lawmakers in both houses of the federal parliament in Nepal on Tuesday raised concerns over the death of Prakriti Lamsal, a Nepalese student in KIIT, Odisha, demanding diplomatic efforts for proper security. Addressing house sessions of both assemblies, lawmakers drew the attention of the government to immediately start diplomatic and political initiatives to ensure…

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Five Russians climbers die in a fall on Nepal’s Dhaulagiri peak, the world’s seventh highest mountain

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Five Russians climbers die in a fall on Nepal’s Dhaulagiri peak, the world’s seventh highest mountain

Representational Image. File | Photo Credit: REUTERS Five Russian mountaineers were killed while climbing in Nepal, a tourism official said on Tuesday (October 8, 2024), two days after the team lost contact while on the world’s seventh-highest mountain, Dhaulagiri. Rakesh Gurung, from Nepal’s tourism department, said the team went missing late on the evening of…

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Video Shows Out-Of-Control Nepal Plane Slamming Into Ground

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Video Shows Out-Of-Control Nepal Plane Slamming Into Ground

Kathmandu Plane Crash: The plane was a Bombardier jet. New Delhi: A frightening new video has emerged of the Bombardier CRJ 200 jet that crashed at the Nepal’s Kathmandu airport at 11.15 am (local time). The video captures the final few seconds of the crash. The clip begins shortly after take-off, with the plane already…

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Nepal’s future is ‘bright’: Newly-appointed PM Oli

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Nepal’s future is ‘bright’: Newly-appointed PM Oli

Newly elected Prime Minister K.P. Oli is being sworn in by President Ram Prasad Poudel, unseen, at the Presidential residence in Kathmandu, Nepal on July 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Newly-appointed Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli on July 18 said that Nepal’s future is “bright”, but its current scenario needs to be changed, amidst…

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Won’t quit, would rather face confidence vote: Nepal PM Prachanda

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Won’t quit, would rather face confidence vote: Nepal PM Prachanda

Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal, also known as Prachanda. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Embattled Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ has decided not to resign from the post despite an agreement reached between the country’s largest parties – Nepali Congress and CPN-UML – to form a new coalition government. In a meeting…

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Nepal’s Deputy Prime Minister Upendra Yadav quits in a setback for Prachanda-led government

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Nepal’s Deputy Prime Minister Upendra Yadav quits in a setback for Prachanda-led government

Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Nepal’s Deputy Prime Minister and senior Madhesi leader Upendra Yadav on Monday tendered his resignation and his party pulled out of the government, a setback to Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda-led coalition government. Mr. Yadav, also the Minister for Health and Population,…

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Nepal PM ‘Prachanda’ to seek third vote of confidence by March 13: Report

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Nepal PM ‘Prachanda’ to seek third vote of confidence by March 13: Report

Nepal Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’. | Photo Credit: Reuters Nepal’s Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ is seeking to hold his third vote of confidence in Parliament by March 13, days after he forged a new alliance with the CPN-UML, a media report said on Saturday. The third round of vote of confidence…

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‘Mt. Everest dirty, crowded now,’ says last-surviving Sherpa from Edmund Hillary’s team

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‘Mt. Everest dirty, crowded now,’ says last-surviving Sherpa from Edmund Hillary’s team

Kanchha Sherpa in Kathmandu, Nepal. He was among the 35 members in the team that put New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay atop Mount Everest | Photo Credit: AP The only surviving member of the mountaineering expedition that first conquered Mount Everest said Saturday that the world’s highest peak is too…

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