picturesque bylane in Kathmandu; (below) a view of the Annapurna range. Pictures by the authorYears after shooting a Feluda television series in Kathmandu, my wife Mithu and I planned another trip to the capital of Nepal.The days Saswata (Chatterjee, as Topshe), Anup Kumar (Jatayu) and I had spent shooting(directed by Sandip Ray) were still fresh in my mind. We stayed at Thamel, shot in various places...
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size="2"> BINAJ GURUBACHARYA
KATHMANDU
Nov. 10: Nepal’s former rebels protested against the president and government on Tuesday, blocking highways leading to the capital and cutting off road access to the city.
Supporters of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the former rebels, gathered on the highways connecting Kathmandu with the rest of the Himalayan...
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Kathmandu: Nepal has commenced work on a new road link to India slashing the distance of the highway connecting the two countries to a mere 76.2 kms, making it possible to reach Kathmandu in 90 minutes.The new fast track highway coming up at an ambitious cost of USD 706.66 million will stretch from Kathmandu to Birgunj, bordering India, significantly bringing down transportation costs between the two...
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Kathmandu, Nov 10 /--/ Nepal has commenced work on a new road link to India slashing the distance of the highway connecting the two countries to a mere 76.2 kms, making it possible to reach Kathmandu in 90 minutes. The new fast track highway coming up at an ambitious cost of USD 706.66 million will stretch from Kathmandu to Birgunj, bordering India, significantly bringing down transportation costs...
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KATHMANDU: An agreement has been reached between Nepal and China to start flights on the Kathmandu-Lhasa route in 2010, making Nepal the first country to operate flights to Lhasa.Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation of Nepal Murari Bahadur Karky and Deputy Director-General of the Tibet Tourism Administration Wang Songping signed the agreement here at the Nepal Tourism Board...
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Kathmandu - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu Thursday at the start of his three-day official visit.In May, the Rajapaksa cut short his Nepal visit after gunmen attacked Sri Lankan cricket players in Pakistan.Rajapaksa leads a 60-member delegation including three cabinet ministers and is scheduled to hold meetings with his Nepalese counterpart Ram Baran...
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