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500 documents vanished from the foreign ministry. Nepal never followed the trail

Kathmandu, Aug. 21 -- Fifteen years after 500 blank travel documents disappeared from the Foreign Ministry's store section, a chargesheet filed at the Kathmandu District Court has forced investigators... Read More


Police raid journalist Kishor Shrestha's office after arrest

Kathmandu, Aug. 13 -- Police raided the office of journalist Kishor Shrestha on Wednesday night, hours after arresting him at his home. Shrestha is being held at the Kathmandu District Police Range a... Read More


Deuba set to return after five months abroad amid questions over his family's financing

Nepal, Aug. 12 -- Former prime minister Sher Bahadur Deuba is returning to Nepal on Thursday, five months after leaving for Singapore, with his faction of the Nepali Congress preparing a rousing welco... Read More


Joint secretary arrested over fake travel documents issued to Tibetans

Kathmandu, Aug. 3 -- The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police on Monday arrested Pushpa Raj Bhattarai, a joint secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in connection with an alleged... Read More


17 years later, senior foreign ministry official charged over alleged misuse of travel documents

Kathmandu, July 30 -- In 2009, five Tibetans arrived at the German Embassy in Kathmandu carrying Nepal-issued travel documents and seeking visas to join relatives who had been granted asylum in German... Read More


Rayamajhi gets four years in prison, Khand two in fake Bhutanese refugee scam

Kathmandu, July 15 -- The Kathmandu District Court on Tuesday sentenced former deputy prime minister and CPN-UML leader Top Bahadur Rayamajhi to four years in prison for his role in the fake Bhutanese... Read More


Three arrested over alleged Bal Mandir property embezzlement

Kathmandu, July 9 -- Three people have been arrested for investigation over their alleged involvement in the misappropriation of property belonging to Bal Mandir in Naxal, Kathmandu. A team from the ... Read More


Court convicts Rayamajhi, Khand and 14 others in Bhutanese refugee scam

Kathmandu, July 8 -- Kathmandu District Court on Tuesday convicted former deputy prime minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi, former home minister Bal Krishna Khand and 14 others in the fake Bhutanese refuge... Read More


Fourteen, including Top Bahadur Rayamajhi and Bal Krishna Khand, convicted in fake Bhutanese refugee scam

Kathmandu, July 7 -- The Kathmandu District Court on Tuesday convicted 14 individuals, including former deputy prime minister Top Bahadur Rayamajhi and former home minister Balkrishna Khand, in the fa... Read More


Court remands former minister Bishnu Paudel to seven days in money laundering probe

Kathmandu, June 23 -- The Special Court has granted investigators permission to keep CPN-UML Vice Chair and former finance minister Bishnu Paudel in custody for seven days. The Department of Money La... Read More