Two foreign tourists die in Khumbu region

February 18, 2024 09:00 am

SALLERI, Feb 18: Two foreign nationals who had been here recently for visiting Khumbu region, Solukhumbu were confirmed to have died. According to the District Police Office, Solukhumbu, they are 42-year-old Elizabeth Dairo (Briton) and 26-year-old Wenshuo Dong (Chinese).

The cut-off year for foreigners to apply for citizenship in India is very strict and conditional. However, in Nepal, it is unfortunate that its fault lines are in the constitution as the cut off year for foreigners to apply for citizenship has been extended after amendment and promulgation of each constitution.

KATHMANDU, JULY 13: Four foreign tourists visiting Nepal went missing in the last one year.

KATHMANDU, June 27: Three missing foreigners have been rescued from Chandragiri forest on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, April 29: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Prem Bahadur Ale has said that there is a need to create an environment in Nepal for foreign nationals to pay the same airfares as Nepalis.

KATHMANDU, April 10: A total of 1,565 foreigners took permits to work in Nepal during the first eight months of the current fiscal year.

KATHMANDU, Feb 22: Two foreign nationals have been arrested from Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) for attempting to smuggle gold. They are Parasnath Shah from India and Mohammad Ullah from Bangladesh. They were apprehended on Monday.

KATHMANDU, Nov 22: In the last eight years, the government has deported 3,130 foreign nationals who arrived in Nepal from different countries and lived here illegally engaging in various illegal activities.

GANDAKI, Nov 7: The Paschimanchal Hotel Association, Pokhara organised a Bhaitika programme as part of the fourth Bhaitika festival that occurs every year here during Tihar festival.

KABUL, Sept 9: Two hundred Americans and other foreigners who remain in Afghanistan are set to depart the war-ravaged country on charter flights from Kabul on Thursday after the new Taliban government agreed to their evacuation, a U.S. official said.

BEIJING, Sept 24: Chinese officials say foreigners holding certain types of visas and residence permits will be permitted to return to China as the threat of the new coronavirus continues to recede.

307 foreigners flown out of Nepal

March 28, 2020 07:05 am

KATHMANDU, March 28: A total of 307 foreigners nationals left here on a Qatar Airways aircraft on Friday.

POKHARA, Jan 14: Pokhara Airport has been serving an average of 2,000 passengers on a daily basis. About a quarter of total passengers are foreigners.

DANG, April 27: Five people including two foreigners were arrested from Ghorahi on Wednesday on the charge of illegally promoting Christianity. American citizen Cinquanta Oleana May, Indian citizen Gaurav Shrivastav and Nepali citizens Dilli Ram Paudel, Kunsang Tamang and Pramod Kafle were arrested by the police along with promotional materials such as a carton full of bibles.

164 foreigners deported in 11 months

March 27, 2019 07:38 am

POKHARA, March 27: The government has deported 164 foreigners from the country during the past 11 months of 2075 BS. The foreigners were facing charges of involvement in various crimes and were deported between mid-April 2018 and mid-March by the Department of Immigration after they completed their punishments.

LEKHANATH, Nov 10: As many as 30 foreigners from various countries were honored at Aananda Jyoti Secondary School at Begnas in Pokhara metropolitan city in Kaski district today.

KANCHANPUR, Oct 30: Locals along with Germany volunteers have joined their hands for the construction of a building of Siddha Bhim Primary School at Shuklaphanta municipality-11, Kaluwapur in Kanchanpur.

KATHMANDU, JULY 24: The classroom was packed with foreign students; teachers were lined up in the front to deliver lectures at the orientation class for the Nepali language course on Wednesday at the Campus of International Languages, Exhibition Road.

New directive formulated by the Ministry of Home Affairs mandates central and district level cross-agency committees to keep a close watch on foreign nationals and take them under control if they are found involved in suspicious or illegal activities

KATHMANDU, Feb 11: Five foreigners have been found to be working as senior management officials in five-star Tiger Palace Resort being developed in Nepal with foreign investment without taking work permit.

KATHMANDU (REPUBLICA): The Millionnaire's Club and Casino situated on the premises of Shangri-La Hotel in Lazimpat has expressed dissatisfaction of deployment of police at the entrance of the casino.

KATHMANDU, March 30: The Special Court has convicted 20 employees of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), including two former managing directors Rameshwar Yadav and Jivendra Jha, in the substandard transfer procurement case.

ILAM, Feb 10: CPN (UML) senior leader Jhalanath Khanal has accused the incumbent government for dilly-dallying the announcement of elections under the influence of foreign forces.

POKHARA, Feb 4: Pilot Micheal Peter Plamchapd of United Kingdom had an accident while paragliding in Pokara recently. The very next day of the accident he succumbed to injuries. Later, it was revealed that he had not even taken permit for paragliding.

KATHMANDU, Dec 19: Foreigners will soon be able to buy apartments in Nepal.

Foreigners in road clean-up campaign

December 8, 2016 09:54 am

LAMJUNG (Besisahar), Dec 8: Foreigners, who have come to Nepal for visits and study purpose, have put their voluntary efforts in cleaning up road and park here.

KATHMANDU, Sept 25: The number of Nepali children being adopted by couples within the country is higher than those being adopted by foreign couples.

Bhaktapur, Sept 11: President of Nepal Majdoor Kisan Party Narayan Man Bijukchhe has said that there was increasing danger that the country could fall into the hands of foreigners as a result of the political self-interests of the big political parties.

KATHMANDU, Sept 3: Members of Parliament (MP) have demanded that any foreign national who tortures a Nepali citizen abroad should be brought within the ambit of the anti-torture bill which is now under discussion in Parliament.

KATHMANDU, Aug 4: Police have arrested two foreigners on the charge of flying a drone equipped with cameras on Monday.