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Renowned Marathi playwright Vijay Tendulkar who died on Tuesday due to complications arising out of Myasthenia Gravis, and Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan, who has admitted to be suffering from the uncommon disease (currently in remission), are two...
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At least 80 people have been killed and scores injured after a series of seven bomb blasts tore through India’s historic walled city of Jaipur.
A senior police officer said the protesters were arrested for carrying the Tibetan flag and wearing head bands that read “Free Tibet.”
Activists said the protesters were arrested from around the royal palace in Kathmandu while they were...
Sylvester Stallone has been very responsible for bringing the plight of Burma to our attention. Knowing it was the subject of his new Rambo movie, I was able to be more interested in the TV reports of public protests at the end of last year. And now...
Nepal’s Maoist leader says he has received indications from the royal palace that the king is willing to meet him to discuss the monarchy’s future.
Prachanda’s party won the most seats on a staunchly republican agenda in last...
Just eight years ago, Sunil Pant wondered whether there was anyone else in this Himalayan land like him. To his engineer’s mind, it was a riddle to be solved, and he methodically set about doing so.
Pant planted himself in Katmandu’s...
Asian vultures could be extinct in the wild within 10 years unless a livestock drug blamed for their rapid demise is eliminated, scientists warn.
A survey showed that the population of the oriental white-backed vulture had crashed by 99.9% since...
It’s the struggle for memory that often resurrects the most difficult moments in history. And Nepal is poised on that threshold, even while the whole world, including big bully USA and a hesitant ‘big brother’ India, seems to be...
To the casual observer, Heena may have appeared to have everything that many young Indian women aspire to. She had her own burgeoning career, a marriage and two children. What she also had – albeit largely hidden from public view – was an alcoholic...
You do not have to be an economist to know that there is a world food crisis, with shortages and rising prices. You simply need to read the world press. On March 28 the BBC ran a headline on the massive increases in the price of Indian rice exports,...
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