• Late monsoon brings fears of food shortages

  LALITPUR, 5 July

  Every year, Nepalese rice farmer Ratnakaji Maharjan celebrates the arrival of the monsoon rains by attending a centuries-old festival in this historic town near Kathmandu.
  
  The annual event, in which a huge chariot said to carry the Hindu rain god Machchindra Nath is pulled through the streets of Lalitpur, draws crowds from across the Kathmandu Valley to celebrate and pray for a good monsoon.
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• Police detain Tibetan exiles near border with China

  Kathmandu, 26 June(Dainikee)

  Nepalese police arrested nine Tibetan exiles Friday who were trying to make their way to the Tibetan border as part of their Free Tibet campaign. A group of several dozen Tibetan exiles hired a bus in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu and were on their way to the Tibetan border town of Khasa when they were stopped by the police at Andheri, about 100 kilometers northeast of Kathmandu, officials said.
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• Nepali arrested for running underground bank in Japan

  Kathmandu, 12 June(Dainikee)

  A Nepali part-time worker in Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of running an underground bank and sending money to Nepal without a license in violation of the banking law, police said.
  Remittance records relating to multiple accounts managed by Sudish Thapa Magar, 30, showed that a total of around 3.3 billion yen.
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• UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Tetsuko visits Nepal

  Kathmandu, 10 June(Dainikee)

  Just days after being honoured for her 25 years of dedicated service to the world’s children as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi made her 29th trip to visit UNICEF programmes by travelling to Nepal.
  Her first stop was at a reintegration programme for children previously associated with armed groups.
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• Himalayas see 780 ascents in spring season

  KATHMANDU, June 10

  The spring mountaineering season recorded 780 ascents from 98 different expeditions from Nepali side in three-month period in March-May, 2009, said officials at Nepali Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation.
  
  Mt. Qomolangma continued to receive the highest number of climbers -- 284 from 29 different expeditions.
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• EX MINISTER AND HIS WIFE KILLED AFTER THE DOG DIES

  TOKIYO, 20 Jeshta (Agency)

  Japanese has killed Ex Health & Welfare Minister Takehiro Yamaguci and Minister's wife Mikiko after the death of his dog. This 46 year old accusor killed the couple when he couldnot control his emotions seeing his dead dog.
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• A LADY HELD FOR THE BOMB BLAST AT THE CHURCH

  Kathmandu, 19 Jestha (Dainikee)

  Nepal Police has arrested a lady for the allegation of the explosion that had occured during a mass of 350 people at Catholic Church of Dhobighat, Lalitpur. Arrested lady is Sita Thapa Shrestha of Gyaneshwor.
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