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.
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.
Sabahudin, a LeT operative arrested for the CRPF camp attack in UP, reveals how the ISI helps the Lashkar train terrorists.
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.
Communist Party of Nepal (United Marxist Leninist) leader K P Sharma Oli has been made deputy premier and foreign minister.
King Gyanendra Monday held talks with former prime ministers of Nepal.
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.
An impressive body of anti-Modi films accumulating since 2002, are now a ubiquitous part of the 'documentary festival' circuit, delivering compact body blows to the reputation of Hindutva's puffed up poster boy.
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
Yadav, a relatively unknown figure outside Nepal, was a last-minute choice of the major parties to oppose the Maoist candidate and Madhesi leader Ramraja Prasad Singh.
Koirala, top leader of the seven-party coalition fighting against the King's direct rule, will have his heart check-up at the Apollo Hospital in New Delhi.
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.
Mainstream political parties in Sikkim have thrown their weight behind the separate Gorkhaland state issue for which the state has witnessed a series of agitations with its economy paralysed. The state's main political force -- the ruling Sikkim Democratic Front -- has openly supported the creation of a separate Gorkhaland state to fulfil what it says the aspiration of the Gorkha people.
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.
The 601-member assembly met at the Birendra International Convention Centre on Wednesday evening where a motion was passed to declare the country the world's newest republic. After a series of meetings, the Seven Party Alliance agreed to table the motion of republic in the first meeting of the Constituent Assembly, dominated by Maoists.
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.
CPN-Maoist leader Ram Bahadur Thapa 'Badal', who was the party's chief military strategist during the time the party's decade-long war with the State, made it clear that the Maoists were not in favour of retaining cultural king or any other form of monarchy, affirming that their 'struggle against feudalism' was also aimed at destroying all the remnants of the institution of monarchy. 'It would be good if he peacefully, leaves the palace after the first assembly sitting.
With the Maoists sweeping the Constituent Assembly polls bagging 106 out of the 190 declared so far and leading in 11 others, the party has initiated serious consultations including a meeting with Prime Minister G P Koirala on modalities to form the new government. Results for 50 seats are awaited out of the 240 at stake in direct elections. The Maoists are on track to become the single largest party.
Out of the 73 results declared so far, CPN-Maoists bagged 43 seats, CPN-UML - 12, Nepali Congress of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala - 10, Madhesi People's Rights Forum - 5, Nepal Workers and Peasants Party - 2 and Terai Madhesh Democratic Party - 1. Determined to abolish the 240-year-old monarchy, Maoists in Nepal on Sunday emerged as the surprise single biggest gainers in the early results for the key Constituent Assembly polls,while several political heavyweights lost
The Maoists in Nepal spearheaded by Prachanda today surged ahead in the landmark constituent assembly polls, winning 14 seats and leading in 65 of the remaining 240 constituencies. Prachanda, 53, chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist who led a decade-long insurgency in the country to overthrow the monarchy, defeated his closest rival Rajendra Kumar K.C of the Nepali Congress in Kathmandu.
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.
With back-to-back comedies like Apna Sapna Money Money, Welcome To Sajjanpur and Golmaal Returns, Shreyas Talpade is steadily becoming the king of comedy.
The Nepalese police have intensified the hunt for Jeevan Rawat, the brother of the alleged kidney transplant racket kingpin Amit Kumar, who was arrested from a jungle resort in Chitwan district last week and deported to India.
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