Tag: Nepal

It was on 2nd December 1815 when 'The Treaty of Sagauli' (in Bihar) was signed between East India Company (Lieutenant Colonel Paris Bradshaw) and Nepal (Raj Guru Gajraj Mishra assisted by Chandra Shekhar Upadhaya) and later ratified on March 4, 1816, which established the boundary line between the Himalaya ...

High court overturns eight-year jail sentence on appeal by former captain, who could now join the T20 World Cup squad.Nepalese cricket star Sandeep Lamichhane’s rape conviction was quashed on appeal after the former national captain challenged an eight-year jail sentence for sexual assault handed down in January. “The high ...

Nepali climber Kami Rita Sherpa reached the top of Mount Everest for the 29th time on Sunday, breaking his own record for the most summits of the world’s highest mountain.“Kami Rita reached the summit this morning. Now he has made a new record with 29 summits of Everest,” said ...

KARACHI, Pakistan Pakistan's Naila Kiani on Sunday summited Makalu, the world's fifth-tallest mountain, located in Nepal, making her the first Pakistani woman to scale 11 peaks above 8,000 meters (26,247 feet)."After a challenging climb through the night, Kiani has achieved another historic milestone by successfully summiting Makalu, the 5th highest ...

On Nepal government’s recent decision to introduce new Rs 100 currency note featuring Indian territories, external affairs minister S Jaishankar Saturday said that by doing something on their side, they (Nepal) are not going to change the situation between the two countries or the reality on the ground. “Our ...

TikTok is in the cross hairs of authorities in the US, where new legislation threatens a nationwide ban unless its China-based parent ByteDance divests. It would be the biggest blow yet to the popular video-sharing app, which has faced various restrictions around the world.TikTok is already banned in a ...

Four Pakistani nationals have been arrested in Nepal for taking hostage four Sri Lankan citizens on the pretext of sending them to different European countries for jobs, a senior police officer said on Friday. Kathmandu Valley Crime Investigative Department of Nepal Police arrested the four Pakistani nationals based on ...

Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) on Thursday said it has arrested two Pakistani nationals and their Kashmiri aide who entered India through the Nepal border and posed as Indian citizens based on forged documents. The arrested Pakistani nationals, identified as Sayyed Gajanfar and Mohammed Altaf Bhat, hail from Rawalpindi ...

In 1950, Roald Dahl wrote a short story titled Poison. The tale, set in colonial India and often found in deckle-edged children’s anthologies, tells a riveting story about racism. In the story, a striped snake called a common krait slithers on the stomach of one of the main characters. ...

Prem Shreshta, 40, remembers the day in 2021 that a flood destroyed his hotel and livelihood. He was overseeing the reception desk at his riverside hotel in the town of Melamchi in Nepal when he received a call from a relative, alerting him of incoming floodwaters. His guests and ...