David Rubin, novelist, translator, and an authority on the literature of India, died on February 2 from a stroke at Roosevelt Hospital. He was 83. His first novel The Greater Darkness, a novel of India (1963) won the Duff Cooper award as the best first novel published in England that year.
A Nepalese minister indicated that it may take weeks or months for the tainted doctor to be sent to India.
Dr Amit Kumar, the alleged kingpin in the multi-crore rupees kidney transplant racket in India, has been arrested in Nepal, the Himalayan Times newspaper reported on Thursday.
According to sources close to the director, he had made a presentation to former US secretary of state Collin Powell and later to the director of the FBI and his deputy and told them that those involved in the hijacking were roaming freely in Pakistan.
The three conspirators Abdul Latif, Dalip Kumar and Yusuf Nepali have been lodged in the high security Patiala Central Jail since their arrest about eight years ago. The three were accused of helping the hijackers in procuring fake passports and other papers and also helping them take weapons aboard the aircraft that was hijacked.
The deferment was announced as the judge was still going through the documents of the case submitted by the defence and the prosecution, the Central Bureau of Investigation, for about seven years.
The agreement provides a 58-42 allocation for proportional and direct election systems for the 601-seat constituent assembly
The real Kathmandu is different from the Kathmandu of the news stories, writes Patrick Ward.
Police sources in N C Hills said the DHD (J) ultras, also known as 'Black Widow', arrived at the saw mills and fired indiscriminately killing eight on the spot.
During preliminary interrogation, it was found that the terrorists were trained in Bahawalpur for six months to kidnap or take as hostage a leading political leader to create disturbances in the country and mount pressure for getting their 42 associates in various Indian jails freed.
As the Maoists paralysed normal life in Nepal for the second day in running, the government beefed up security on Monday amid warning by a top former rebel leader that they may declare a new constitution from the streets.
The Indian official is arriving in Kathmandu on a two-day visit on Wednesday afternoon to take stock of the political situation that has developed after a lack of consensus over Maoist demands for declaring the country a republic led to the postponement of November election.
Terming the remarks of a Red FM radio jockey against the Gorkha community as derogatory, the govt has banned the radio channel for 7 days.The remarks about the winner of Indian Idol Prashant Tamang had triggered violent clashes in Siliguri last week.
a procession by fans of Indian Idol Prashant Tamang clashed with locals, following dispute over passage for an ambulance near the Siliguri Sub-divisional hospital on Friday.
A rash of rape incidents were reported in Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal on Tuesday with minor girls among the victims even as a two-and-a-half-year-old girl in Gujarat died after being allegedly raped and dumped in a bush by her uncle.
A successful election is the central element of the country's democratisation process, the UN stressed.
The occasion passed unnoticed by many as there were no grand celebrations, with the prime minister receiving gifts from party workers and well-wishers at his Baluwatar home and not venturing out, sources close to his family said.
Powell agreed that her number one task in Nepal would be to focus on what the US could do to be supportive, without being viewed as interfering or managing it.
Expressing concern over the recent Maoist activities, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during a recent meeting with a UML team in Delhi had said that the unity between the Nepali Congress and UML be strengthened.
However, the exact date for the polls will be fixed by the cabinet
Sita, a Nepali mother of five children, joined school after she was humiliated at a religious function for not being able to write her name.
This new government has been tasked with steering the nation into the June 20 constituent assembly polls.
The formation of the new government, which was expected on Friday, was delayed due to last-minute wrangling over the distribution of portfolios.
Microsoft Corporation India on Tuesday announced the availability of Hindi version of 2007 Microsoft Office software to accelerate local language computing in the country.
After the clash on Wednesday, 29 dead bodies were recovered from the site and 40 Maoists, who sustained injuries have been admitted to the local hospital for treatment.
Banaras Hindu University is conducting entrance tests for
India-born novelist Kiran Desai's bestseller novel The Inheritance of Loss has bagged yet another literary honour -- the National Book Critics Circle fiction award.
Two Nepalese expeditions to the Mt. Everest will be carrying the red flag of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) to plant on the peak if they are able to make it to the top.
Koirala told the former rebel that they should wait until the constituent assembly elections expected in June.
Workers' outfits staged a rally outside the Indian Consulate in New York to show support for Sangeeta Richard, whose allegations of low wages and exploitation led to the Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade. George Joseph reports
Koirala said the government will immediately amend the Constitution to fulfil the genuine demands of the Terai people.
Advani's comments echoed BJP chief Rajnath Singh's remarks to the party national executive in Lucknow last month that those not authorised to speak to the media should restrain themselves from public comments.
Veteran Communist leader Madhav Kumar Nepal was on Saturday elected unopposed as the prime minister of Nepal, bringing to an end the nearly three-week long political crisis in the country. The 56-year-old Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) leader, who claims to have the support of 351 lawmakers in the 601-member Constituent Assembly, was the only candidate to have filed the nomination for the top post. The Maoists boycotted the voting process.
True Indian scenes most often lie on less travelled routes, along roads that have fallen off the map, after modern highways have come up. On the fourth leg of their 2,148 km journey, Rediff.com's Archana Masih and photographer Rajesh Karkera discover one such forgotten place in the Thar Desert.
He appreciated Prime Minister Koirala for successfully moving ahead with the peace process.
According to the Constitution, which has 167 articles, all executive powers as well as those enjoyed by the King in the previous Constitution, now vest upon the prime minister.
The peace talks between the government and the Maoists, which were postponed about a month ago, will resume in Kathmandu on Monday.
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