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Nepal increases security after pro-monarchy supporters clash with police,
Updated : 18 hours, 35 min ago IST
Security forces have been mobilised around the Bhaktapur residence of controversial businessman Durga Prasai, who is leading the protests, while his supporters have been arrested from various locations in Kathmandu.
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Kathmandu remains tense amid power tussle between two warring parties
Updated : 1 day, 12 hours ago IST
The Balkhu area, a main traffic intersection in the inner ring road of Kathmandu in the early hours of Wednesday witnessed clashes between the Yuwa Sangh- Youth wing of the opposition CPN-UML and the pro-monarch supporters led by businessman Durga Prasai.
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Nepal: Police clash with 'pro-monarchy' protestors in Kathmandu; teargas,
Updated : 1 day, 17 hours ago IST
Clash erupted between the Nepal police and pro-monarchy protestors after which the police had to use water cannons and teargas to disperse supporters of businessman Durga Prasai, Kathmandu Post reported on Thursday.
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Earthquake of magnitude 4.5 jolts Nepal
Updated : 2 days, 5 hours ago IST
With an epicentre at Chitlang of Makwanpur district in the Himalayan nation, the quake was recorded at around 1:20 am (local time), however, no casualties were reported.
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Nepal SC refuses "interim order" to lift TikTok ban, issues show cause to
Updated : 3 days, 11 hours ago IST
The Nepal Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against issuing an interim order to lift the ban on Chinese social media application TikTok.
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Vaccine regulators, officials meet to strategize integration of COVID-19 v
Updated : 3 days, 16 hours ago IST
To integrate pandemic vaccines in national immunisation programme in countries of the WHO South-East Asia Region, vaccine regulators, and officials from WHO today began deliberating strategies to enable member countries to transition from the use of COVID-19 vaccines under Emergency Use Auth
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Nepal observes Chhath as devotees continue fast, chant hymns throughout ni
Updated : 5 days, 10 hours ago IST
Devotees in Kathmandu thronged to nearby holy water bodies on Sunday evening, offering Arghya to Lord Sun as they prepared to stay awake for the whole night as the arduous fasting of Chhath entered the third day.
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Half-a-dozen writ petitions filed in Nepal Supreme Court against Tik Tok b
Updated : 1 week ago IST
Senior advocate Dinesh Tripathi, advocate Swagat Nepal and others have filed separate writ petitions against the TikTok ban. They have demanded that the government's decision should be annulled, stating that the ban on Tik Tok has violated citizens freedom of opinion and expression, that the
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Nepali public welcomes government decision to impose ban on TikTok
Updated : 1 week, 4 days ago IST
A cabinet meeting in Nepal on Monday decided to ban Chinese social media platform TikTok after mounting complaints of social disharmony in the Himalayan nation. Government of Nepal spokesperson and Minister of Information and Communications Rekha Sharma confirmed that a cabinet meeting on Mo
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Nepal bans TikTok after mounting complaints of social disharmony
Updated : 1 week, 4 days ago IST
Chinese social media Tik Tok does not have any provisions to remove offensive contents. With the latest move, Nepal becomes the most recent country to ban Tik Tok, which is already banned in over 50 countries.
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Nepal bans Chinese app TikTok, cites security concerns
Updated : 1 week, 4 days ago IST
The Kathmandu Post reported the Nepal government last week said the measure was introduced in light of an increasing number of people complaining that the absence of the companies' representatives in Nepal made it difficult for the authorities to address their users' concerns and even to rem
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After dismal progress in BRI, China switches to 'regional approach' in Nep
Updated : 1 week, 5 days ago IST
After six years of dismal progress on projects under the Belt and Road Initiative in Nepal, China seems to have taken a regional approach to extend President Xi Jinping's flagship connectivity arm, a report in Kathmandu Post stated.
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