September 19, 2024 17:20 pm
KATHMANDU, Sept 19: Canada is set to reduce the number of permits granted to international students by 45 percent in 2025. This comes after a 35 percent cut in student enrollment in 2024, where visas were issued to only 360,000 students.
September 19, 2024 12:40 pm
KATHMANDU, Sept 19: Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dr Arzu Rana Deuba, has urged the Canadian government to establish an embassy in Nepal. She made this request during a bilateral meeting with Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly on Wednesday in Ottawa, Canada.
September 17, 2024 12:18 pm
KATHMANDU, Sept 17: Nepal suffered a bitter 103-run loss to Canada in their first match of the second edition of the ICC World Cup Cricket League-2 as their batting collapsed.
September 16, 2024 16:15 pm
KATHMANDU, Sept 16: Nepal is playing against Canada today under the ICC Cricket World Cup League-2 competition.
September 16, 2024 09:40 am
KATHMANDU, Sept 16: Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Arzu Rana Deuba is leaving for Canada on Monday evening to attend a two-day meeting of women foreign ministers to be held from Thursday in Toronto, Canada.
August 27, 2024 20:15 pm
TORONTO, Aug 27: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has said he plans to lower the number of low-wage, temporary foreign workers and permanent residents being let into Canada.
August 17, 2024 17:44 pm
KATHMANDU, Aug 17: The Embassy of Nepal in Canada has issued seven-point guidelines for Nepali students planning to study in Canada. With the new academic semester approaching, the embassy released a notification outlining various seven key points to help students ensure a smooth and problem-free experience in Canada.
May 2, 2024 15:37 pm
KATHMANDU, May 2: The Nepali Embassy in Canada has released a notice, advising Nepali students intending to study in Canada to ensure they have complete information and proper accommodation arrangements prior to their arrival in the country.
February 12, 2024 16:32 pm
KATHMANDU, Feb 12: Nepal's opening batsman, Anil Kumar Shah, and the number three batsman, Bhim Sarki, showcased stellar performances by scoring centuries, setting a new partnership record, and leading Nepal to a resounding victory in the final one-day international cricket match against Canada.
February 10, 2024 16:33 pm
KATHMANDU, Feb 10: Nepal defeated Canada in the second ODI match by four wickets to clinch the three-match series with an unassailable 2-0 lead at home ground on Saturday.
February 10, 2024 09:04 am
KATHMANDU, Feb 10: Nepal is playing the second match of the one-day international series against Canada today.
February 8, 2024 22:38 pm
KATHMANDU, Fe 8: A four-wicket haul by Nepal's cricket captain Rohit Kumar Poudel helped the hosts defeat Canada by seven runs in the first ODI match between the two countries held at the Tribhuvan University (TU) Cricket Ground on Thursday.
February 8, 2024 17:35 pm
KATHMANDU, Feb 8: Nepal has made a winning start in the One Day International (ODI) Bilateral Series, defeating Canada by seven runs in the match played at Tribhuvan University International Cricket Ground, Kirtipur.
January 26, 2024 14:00 pm
KASKI, Jan 26: Kaski District Police Office has arrested six people on the charge of defrauding Nepalis by luring them with the promise to send them to Canada. Among those arrested are two foreigners and four Nepali nationals.
January 23, 2024 19:57 pm
KATHMANDU, Jan 23: Canada is set to cut international student enrollment. In 2024, Canada will cut international student enrollment by 35 percent and grant visas to only 360,000.
November 23, 2023 09:10 am
Ottawa, Nov 23: India has resumed electronic visa services for eligible Canadian citizens, the High Commission of India in Canada announced on Wednesday.
October 21, 2023 09:09 am
Ottawa [Canada], October 21: Canada Foreign Minister Melanie Joly announced on Thursday (local time) that Canada has removed 41 diplomats and their 42 family members, from India over the ongoing row between the two countries.
September 29, 2023 09:30 am
KATHMANDU, Sept 29: On September 18, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made allegations against the Indian government, implicating its hand in the fatal shooting of a Canadian Sikh leader that occurred on Canadian soil.
September 23, 2023 11:00 am
TORONTO Sept. 23: The allegation of India’s involvement in the killing of a Sikh Canadian is based on surveillance of Indian diplomats in Canada, including intelligence provided by a major ally, a Canadian official told The Associated Press on Thursday.
September 21, 2023 09:00 am
NEW DELHI, Sept. 21: Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh independence advocate whose killing two months ago is at the center of a widening breach between India and Canada, was called a human rights activist by Sikh organizations and a criminal by India’s government.
September 19, 2023 12:21 pm
OTTAWA, Sept 19: Canada on Monday accused India's government of involvement in the killing of a Canadian Sikh leader near Vancouver last June, prompting tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions after New Delhi rejected the charge as "absurd."
August 25, 2023 15:25 pm
KATHMANDU, Aug 25: Finance Minister Dr Prakash Sharan Mahat has been elected the Vice Chair of Global Environment Facility (GEF) by a plenary session held under the ongoing Seventh GEF Assembly in Canada.
June 23, 2023 11:11 am
OTTAWA, Ontario, June 23: Canada’s Senate on Thursday passed a bill that will require Google and Meta to pay media outlets for news content that they share or otherwise repurpose on their platforms.
February 23, 2023 20:17 pm
KATHMANDU, Feb 23: Male journalists must be stronger allies for their female counterparts by supporting women to take up decision-making roles in newsrooms, said a visiting award-winning Canadian journalist in the capital on Thursday.
September 30, 2022 19:20 pm
KATHMANDU, Sept 30: Foreign Secretary Bharat Raj Paudyal has requested the Canadian government to establish a residential embassy of Canada in Nepal.
September 26, 2022 10:38 am
KATHMANDU, Sept 26: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Jeevan Ram Shrestha has left for Canada to participate in the 41st International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) General Assembly.
July 7, 2022 12:27 pm
KATHMANDU, July 7: Canada has defeated Nepal in the second and final one-day cricket tournament.
June 23, 2022 18:25 pm
Kapil Sharma is off to Canada for live shows with his TKSS gang which comprises popular faces like Krushna Abhishek, Kiku Sharda, Chandan Prabhakar and Sumona Chakravarti. The comedian has been posting fun photos of the team, wherein they can be seen enjoying themselves.
June 17, 2022 13:00 pm
KATHMANDU, June 17: Nepal is set to play T20 and ODI series against Canada.
February 1, 2022 13:50 pm
TORONTO, Feb 1: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Monday he has tested positive for COVID-19 but is “feeling fine” and will continue to work remotely from home.
November 22, 2021 12:02 pm
TRIPOLI, Nov 22: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Sunday that it resettled 71 refugees from Libya to Canada.
June 28, 2021 14:26 pm
KATHMANDU, June 27: Mitra Kafle, a Canadian citizen with Nepali origin, has been honored with the Brampton Citizens Award by the Canadian government for his role in helping the community during COVID-19.
June 25, 2021 11:56 am
VANCOUVER, June 25: Leaders of Indigenous groups in Canada said Thursday investigators have found more than 600 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school for Indigenous children — a discovery that follows last month’s report of 215 bodies found at another school.
May 30, 2021 08:07 am
CANADA, May 30: The remains of 215 children, some as young as three years old, were found at the site of a former residential school for indigenous children, a discovery Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described as heartbreaking on Friday.
March 30, 2021 10:34 am
TORONTO, March 30: Canada on Monday suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine for people under age 55 following concerns it might be linked to rare blood clots.
January 29, 2021 14:21 pm
KATHMANDU, Jan 29: Police have arrested a man on the charge of duping youths in the name of sending them to Canada.
December 27, 2020 07:27 am
TORONTO, Dec 27: Officials in Canada’s most populous province have confirmed the first two known Canadian cases of of a more contagious variant of COVID-19 that was first identified in the United Kingdom.
October 4, 2020 14:30 pm
KATHMANDU, Oct 4: The federal government of Canada has quietly settled a lawsuit filed by survivors and family members in the wake of a suicide bombing outside the Canadian embassy in Kabul four years ago that killed 15 Nepali Gurkhas and Indian private security contractors, CBC News reported.
July 17, 2020 09:10 am
LONDON/OTTAWA, July 17: Hackers backed by the Russian state are trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine and treatment research from academic and pharmaceutical institutions around the world, Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said on Thursday.
July 15, 2020 16:36 pm
Seven South Asian film festivals in the U.S. and Canada have decided to merge their efforts into one online event running Oct. 3-17.
February 15, 2020 10:53 am
KATHMANDU, Feb 15: Nepal has hosted its first ever figure skating and ice hockey friendly match with well-renowned players from Canada, India, Russia, and the United States.
February 11, 2020 06:53 am
KATHMANDU, Feb 11: Amid growing concerns regarding Nepal’s failure to settle the conflict-era cases and ensure justice to the victims, visiting Canadian Senate Speaker George J Furey is wrapping up his two-day visit to Nepal Tuesday without meeting the new speaker of the lower house Agni Sapkota – a former Maoist leader accused of murder during the decade-long insurgency.
January 20, 2020 13:49 pm
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Jan 20: The first stage of an extradition hearing for a senior executive of Chinese telecom giant Huawei begins Monday in a Vancouver courtroom, a case that has infuriated Beijing, set off a diplomatic furor and raised fears of a brewing tech war between China and the United States.
January 10, 2020 08:51 am
OTTAWA/WASHINGTON, Jan 10: A Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran, killing all 176 people aboard, was likely brought down by an Iranian missile, Canada’s prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said on Thursday, citing intelligence from Canadian and other sources.
January 8, 2020 17:09 pm
Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan visited Canada House in London on Tuesday to thank the High Commissioner for the hospitality they received during their Christmas holiday.
August 23, 2019 12:00 pm
HONG KONG, Aug 23: The Canadian Consulate in Hong Kong said Friday local staff aren’t allowed to travel outside the city including to mainland China, in a move that comes days after a British Consulate worker was detained there.
July 30, 2019 08:30 am
July 30: Capital One Financial Corp (COF.N) said on Monday that personal information including names and addresses of about 100 million individuals in the United States and 6 million people in Canada were obtained by a hacker who has been arrested.
July 26, 2019 14:15 pm
July 26: Canadian police were using drones and dogs to scour harsh terrain in northern Manitoba on Thursday in the search for two teenagers wanted in the killings of three people, including an American woman and her Australian boyfriend.
July 4, 2019 10:48 am
SINGAPORE, July 4: An earthquake of magnitude 6.5 struck northwest of Canada’s Vancouver island, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said on Thursday.
July 3, 2019 11:39 am
COPENHAGEN, July 3: An arctic fox walked more than 4,415 kilometers (2,737 miles) to go from northern Norway to Canada’s far north in four months, Norwegian researchers said.