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In an apparent bid to o consolidate his grip over the 22-party alliance government, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal on Monday appointed Sujata Koirala, daughter of Nepali Congress president G P Koirala, as Deputy Prime Minister.

He is counsel for Hafiz Saeed, and in Monday's triumph in court, he has added to India's frustrations.

In a demand that may have strategic geopolitical implications for India, Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has asked China to extend the Beijing-Lhasa railway line to Kathmandu.

Maoist leaders, who have often been criticised for being insensitive to religious beliefs, are now taking care not to offend religious sentiments of people, especially Hindus.

1957: The Great Leap Forward Based on Mao's vision of a China that would outrun the West, the Great Leap Forward policy was wrought with difficulties.

Peter Varghese, the new Australian High Commissioner to India, has said there is need to constructively engage China, let it have a voice in regional and international fora and encourage it to play by the rules as part of a strategy to ensure that its rise does not destabilise.

One reason why Pakistan doesn't appear to be sincere in its action against Lashkar-e-Toiba founder and Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Sayeed is slowly emerging.

The Moon is generally thought to be a dry place, although scientists have long suspected that ice might be trapped in cold, permanently shadowed craters.

Ignoring the UN, the Nepal government on Thursday decided to go for fresh recruitment to fill up vacant posts in the Nepal army.

Barely weeks after it failed in its attempt to block Asian Development Bank (ADB) funds to a project in Arunachal Pradesh, China has successfully struck back.

Nepal's new Army Chief Gen Chhatra Man Singh Gurung, who received training at the prestigious Indian Military Academy in Dehradun, assumed office on Wednesday, becoming the first person from this country's indigenous tribes to ascend to the top post.

Disgraced Pakistani nuclear scientist A Q Khan has said his country was short of anti-aircraft missiles during the 1999 Kargil War, so General Pervez Musharraf sent him to North Korea to purchase 200 missiles.

A Mongolian ship transporting iron ore to China sank in the Bay of Bengal, six km off the Paradip port, on Wednesday night, officials said, adding that one of the crew members was feared drowned while the rest 26 were rescued and safe.

Close on the heels of revelations that Pakistan has been illegally modifying US-made Harpoon missiles with the objective of targeting India, come two reports from Washington asserting that Islamabad has been steadily working towards increasing its nuclear capabilities, both in terms of numbers as well as quality.

Even the first time visitor to Moscow quickly learns to find her bearings by catching sight of Stalin's Seven Sisters, those immense Baroque and Gothic structures rising high above the city's skyline.

With India strongly taking up the attack on two Indian priests at Pashupatinath Temple on Friday, Nepal's Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said that stern action would be taken against those responsible for the assault.

The Western Ghats, known for their extraordinary biological richness, are home to about 350 species of butterflies, some of which look so similar to one another—as in the case of the butterfly family Lycaenidae—that they cannot be distinguished without the help of experts.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin talked of "a special relationship defined by special trust" as President Pratibha Patil met him on Friday.

Two newly appointed priests in the famous Pashupatinath Temple — who were set to take up their duties from Saturday — were on Friday beaten up allegedly by workers of the youth wing of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoists (CPN-M).

They gather five days a week at a mall called the Hub, sitting on concrete planters and sipping thermoses of chai.