Bihar court acquits 11 Nepali Maoist leaders
Patna, Feb 3 (IANS) A Bihar court Friday acquitted 11 Nepali Maoist leaders, including a former minister and six MPs, on a state government petition seeking to withdraw criminal cases against them.

The government Wednesday filed a petition in the court of additional district judge in Patna for the withdrawal of cases against the arrested Nepali Maoists, government lawyer Jai Prakash Singh said.

The state government initiated the move to withdraw the criminal cases following a ... Read More

City college announces new journalism award
MAHANAND TIMALSINA

KATHMANDU: Kantipur City College has established the ‘KCC Journalism Award’ which will be given annually to two working Nepali journalists.

The award will carry a purse of Rs 25,000 along with a certificate for each.

Principal of the college, Prahlad Karki announced the award at a one-day seminar on ‘Information for Nation-Building: Quality Media Education for Quality Information,’ organised by the college in Kathmandu on Saturday.

According to Karki, the college has allocated a revolving ... Read More

Ordination for ethnic Nepalese priest
Nepal, January 03, 2011: An ethnic Nepalese Jesuit priest from India has been ordained in the country’s poorest parish.

Father Samuel Simick, 32, was ordained on December 31, in Maheshpur parish, around 600 kilometers east of Kathmandu, by Nepal’s apostolic vicar Jesuit Bishop Anthony Sharma.

He joins three other priests, a diocesan and two Jesuits, who were ordained there by Bishop Sharma last year.

The ceremony, concelebrated by about two dozen priests, was held at the Moran Memorial ... Read More

Newspaper evangelism makes inroads for hope in Nepal
Nepal, December 13, 2011: Christians are approximately four percent of the population.

Recent upheaval in the country has been disruptive for ministries, especially in light of changed penal codes, and failed efforts to draft a new Constitution.

However, AMG International has found one way to present the hope of truth to people, in spite of what chaos might be wreaking havoc in Nepal: Newspaper evangelism.

This method is particularly effective in predominantly Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist countries. ... Read More

Nepal: Religious Liberty Under Attack
Nepal, November 30, 2011: A crude bomb exploded in Thapathali, Kathmandu, on 22 November, outside the offices of United Mission in Nepal (UMN), a Christian non-governmental organisation (NGO) that has been working to relieve poverty in Nepal since 1954. A second bomb was disarmed. No one was injured. Police found leaflets at the site from the Nepal Defense Army (NDA), a militant Hindu nationalist group that has targeted Christians previously. The leaflets accused the UMN ... Read More

Nepal bomb attempt targets Protestant church
Nepal, November 28, 2011: Security forces have defused a “powerful” bomb packed inside a sack and placed at the entrance of a Protestant church in central Kathmandu, Nepal.

The bomb, which was in a cloth bag and stuffed in a white plastic sack, was discovered Sunday outside the Navajiwan Church, which belongs to the Assemblies of God grouping of churches at around 6pm by the janitor Arjun Magar.

“The sack was left just outside the gate. I ... Read More

India is committed to assist Nepal in of historic change: Mukherjee
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee smiles during a news conference in New De...Kathmandu: Asserting that India is committed to assist the government and people of Nepal in these processes of historic change, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said relations with Kathmandu are and will continue to be a matter of the highest priority for New Delhi.

In his opening remarks after signing the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) here, Mukherjee said: "India has an abiding interest in ... Read More

Nepal awaits Pranab Mukherjee’s visit
KATHMANDU: A month after Nepal's Prime Minister Dr Baburam Bhattarai's official visit to India, New Delhi is sending its finance minister Pranab Mukherjee to Kathmandu to sign a Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement, Nepal's official media said on Monday.

The pact was to have been signed during Bhattarai's India visit in October but was held up due to technical reasons. On his return home subsequently, the Nepali premier came under fire, both from his own party ... Read More

Parties agree final part of landmark peace deal
Nepal's main political parties have agreed the last part of a landmark peace deal after years of wrangling.

A spokesman for the prime minister said the deal revolves around the future of about 19,000 former Maoist fighters.

About a third of them will be integrated into the security forces. The remainder will receive a pay-off.

The Maoists ended a long-running insurgency five years ago. Peace moves had stalled over the future of former rebel fighters and a ... Read More