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Kathmandu, Sept 2025 : Nepal’s Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak resigned on Monday evening, taking moral responsibility for the deaths and injuries during the Gen Z protests that swept across the country. Lekhak submitted his resignation to Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli during a Cabinet meeting held at the Prime Minister’s residence in Baluwatar. According to ministers present, Lekhak stepped down following the deaths of 17 people in Kathmandu and two in Itahari, while more than 400 others were injured after…

Kathmandu, Sept 2025 : At least 19 people were killed and more than 100 injured in Nepal on Monday as nationwide protests over a government-imposed social media shutdown and rampant corruption turned violent. Police fired rubber bullets, tear gas, and used batons to disperse demonstrators, many of them young students, as clashes spread from the capital to several cities across the country. Authorities said unrest began in Kathmandu when protesters stormed the barricades outside parliament. Some demonstrators set fire to…

Kathmandu, Sept 2025 : Nepal is witnessing one of its largest youth-led uprisings in recent years as millions of young people have poured into the streets to protest the government’s sweeping ban on unregistered social media platforms. The demonstrations, dubbed the “Gen Z protest” by local media, turned violent over the weekend, leaving at least one dead and more than 80 injured after police opened fire on crowds in Damak and New Baneshwor. The ban, which came into force on…

New Delhi, Sep 2025 : Bhutanese Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay has hailed the signing of the 570 MW Wangchu Hydropower Project agreement between Adani Power Limited and Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC) as a “historic” step in Bhutan-India clean energy cooperation. “This evening, I witnessed the signing of the 570 MW Wangchu Hydropower Project agreement between Adani Power Limited and DGPC, which is a milestone in Bhutan-India clean energy cooperation,” Tobgay posted on X. The deal is seen as a…

Kathmandu, Sept 2025 – Millions of Nepalis were left frustrated on Friday as access to several major social media platforms, including Facebook, was cut off following a government order to block unregistered services. The Ministry of Communication and Information Technology directed Nepal’s telecommunication authority to restrict access to 26 platforms that have not registered locally. The list includes Facebook, YouTube, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and LinkedIn, among others. “After the directive yesterday we stopped the URLs, but a complete shutdown…

Kathmandu, Aug 2025 : Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli held bilateral talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Tianjin on Saturday, just hours after arriving for the 25th Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit and the SCO Plus meeting. The talks came against the backdrop of rising concerns in Kathmandu over the Lipulekh issue, a longstanding territorial dispute involving Nepal, India, and China. According to Foreign Secretary Amrit Bahadur Rai, Prime Minister Oli directly raised Nepal’s objection to the use…

1st Joint Technical Working Group Meeting Held in Thimphu Two Countries Decide To Strengthen Cooperation in Agriculture and Allied Sectors Aug 2025 : Shri Devesh Chaturvedi, Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare, Government of India and Mr. Thinley Namgyel, Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MoAL), Royal Government of Bhutan signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Thimpu to further strengthen cooperation in the fields of agriculture and allied sectors. The signing of MoU represents a significant milestone in…

Aug 2025 : Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus has called for urgent, coordinated international action to secure the safe, voluntary, dignified, and sustainable return of the Rohingya people to their ancestral homes in Myanmar’s Rakhine State. Presenting a seven-point proposal at a high-level stakeholders’ dialogue in Cox’s Bazar today, Yunus emphasized that the world must move beyond rhetoric and act decisively to end one of the most pressing humanitarian crises of our time. “We must not be held hostage to mere…

Kathmandu, Aug 2025 — On the second day of her official visit to Nepal, Vietnam’s Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan held a meeting with Nepal’s Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli at Singha Durbar on Sunday. The discussions, which lasted for about an hour at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, centered on further strengthening cooperation and expanding mutual relations between the two countries. Prime Minister Oli’s Chief Advisor, Bishnu Prasad Rimal, who was present during…

Dhaka, Aug 2025 — Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar held a bilateral meeting with Bangladesh Foreign Adviser Touhid Hossain this morning at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in Dhaka. The two leaders began with a brief one-to-one discussion before leading their respective delegations in a formal meeting. Dar, accompanied by Pakistan’s Commerce Minister Jam Kamal Khan, is also scheduled to call on Bangladesh’s Chief Adviser Prof. Muhammad Yunus later in the day. In the evening, the…