It’s easy to cross the border between Nepal and India. Too easy. Most of its 1,600km is marked by simple, 30cm-high concrete piles. There is no wall, no fence, no barbed wire. In fact, some farmers have fields that are part in Nepal and part in India.

MOSCOW, June 23:  Football’s world governing body FIFA said on Friday it was trying to identify fans shown fighting in a video filmed at Thursday’s World Cup match between Argentina and Croatia.

KATHMANDU, May 4: Shutdown of public vehicles by various transportation entrepreneurs associations has affected movement of general people across the country.

Supermodel Heidi Klum said at the age of 44 she is not searching for the fountain of youth and is trying to embrace ageing.

Automobile brand Renault has gained ground in the country by establishing itself as one of the top three brands in the country in less than 18 months.

DHARAN, Jan 20 : Accusing the vice chancellor of BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences (BPKIHS) of disobedience, Health Minister Deepak Bohara is trying to remove him from the post.  According to sources at the Ministry of Health, the minister is trying to remove BPKIHS Vice-chancellor Dr Raj Kumar Rauniyar for defying his instruction given in the 40th session of the institute's senate meeting on November 16.

KATHMANDU, Jan 13: CPN (UML) leader Subhas Chandra Nembang has accused the government of trying to postpone the election of the National Assembly, the Upper House of parliament.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, June 6: Kuwait is trying to mediate a Gulf crisis between Qatar and its Arab neighbors, which have severed ties with the energy-rich travel hub and moved to isolate it from the outside world, Qatar’s foreign minister said Tuesday.

KATHMANDU, May 10: A South African man, who was caught while attempting to scale Mount Everest without permit, will most likely face a ban on another climb from Nepal for five years. Officials, however, said it could take up to a week to announce this decision.

Actress Alia Bhatt, who features in a reprised version of the 1990s’ iconic hit number ‘Tamma Tamma’, says stepping into the shoes of Madhuri Dixit who grooved to the original track is an impossible job.

Man held for trying to sell woman

February 11, 2017 01:30 am

UDAYPUR, Feb 11: A guy has been arrested on the charge of swindling and then trying to sell a woman to India.

Neel Kantha Uprety, the Chief Election Commissioner during the second Constituent Assembly elections in 2013, believes it is possible to hold local elections before monsoon and the two  remaining elections by January, 2018. But how? And how do we make sense of recent proposed electoral reforms? Uprety shared his insights with Republica’s Mahabir Paudyal and Bhadra Sharma. ​

KATHMANDU, Dec 23: Nepali Congress (NC) President Sher Bahadur Deuba has accused the main Opposition, the CPN-UML, of trying to create rift between the hill and Madhes communities.

KAPILVASTU, Dec 16: Chairman of the Federal Socialist Forum Nepal, Upendra Yadav has accused the CPN-UML of trying to kill pro-change agendas like republicanism and federalism under the pretext of nationalism.

SANTA ANA, Calif, Dec1: A woman who created a phony Facebook profile of her ex-boyfriend in order to frame the Southern California man for stalking has been sentenced to a year in jail.

Keep trying

November 26, 2016 00:45 am

We welcome the decision of Nepali Congress and CPN (Maoist Center), the two main constituents of the ruling coalition, to once again make a concerted effort at garnering consensus on constitution amendment.

KATHMANDU, Nov 24: Metropolitan Police Range, Lalitpur recently arrested two agents while trying to settle a rape case that took place last week in Imadol of Lalitpur district.

Jailed former gangsta rap mogul Marion Suge Knight has filed a lawsuit against Dr Dre accusing the hip-hop star turned Apple executive of hiring hitmen to kill him.

BANEPA, Oct 19: One person was arrested by the police from Panauti of Kavrepalanchowk along with pangolin scales.

People who aim to quit drinking entirely are more likely to achieve this goal if they are treated by a care provider who advocates total abstinence, a new study has claimed.

PARIS, Sept 10: Mario Balotelli may lose count when he adds up the number of people he has to prove wrong this season.

Girish Khatiwada, better known by his stage name Gorkhali G, is a pioneer Nepali rapper, DJ and RJ. He has been in the Nepali hip hop scene since the nineties.

TAPLEJUNG, July 16: A woman has gone missing in her attempt to escape a mudslide at a steep slope at Ghaiyabari, Tapethok VDC in Taplejung district.

KATHMANDU, July 8: Lawmakers elected under the first-past-the-post (FPTP) category have accused Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Federal Affairs and Local Development Kamal Thapa of attempting to curtail their rights for fulfilling his partisan interest.

KATHMANDU, June 24: The main opposition Nepali Congress (NC) President Sher Bahadur Deuba today accused the government of trying to impose totalitarianism under the guise of republic and democracy.