NEPAL

Nepal’s sexual minorities say progress in rights has stalled

8:35 pm September 18, 2019

Kathmandu: Nepal seized the lead in equal rights for sexual minorities in South Asia four years ago with a new constitution that forbids all discrimination based on sexual orientation. Even citizenship certificates and passports now allow a “non-male, non-female” category. But same-sex couples such as Niraj Sunwar and Aashik Lama say progress has stalled since […]

Damoh: Six-year-old girl raped, her eyes damaged by accused

Man held for sexually assaulting his daughters

8:36 pm September 7, 2019

Gurgaon: A man was arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting his two minor daughters in Sohna area, police said on Saturday. The incident was reported to a woman police post here on Friday by the mother of the victims who is from Nepal. The woman in her complaint said that her husband, who worked as a […]

Gujarat: Angry with husband, woman kills son, hangs self

8:04 pm August 31, 2019

Ahmedabad: A woman allegedly slit the throat of her toddler son before killing herself at Dholera in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad district after realising that her husband had lied to her about returning to their native Nepal, police said on Saturday. Shantiben Sonar (22), a Nepalese national living in Dholera with her husband Bir Bahadur Dhan Singh […]

Delhi-based Kashmiri scribes, over 25 people from Valley were potential spying targets: Report

Nepalese held with heroin on Indo-Nepal border

12:48 pm August 24, 2019

Mahrajganj (UP): Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) personnel arrested a Nepalese man on the Indo-Nepal border and seized 203 gram heroin worth Rs 2.3 crore from him, officials said on Saturday. Company Commandant of the 22nd battalion of the SSB, Amit Kumar said a person was checked on suspicion in Sonauli area on Friday night and […]

Minor gang-raped, killed in Kotdwar

4:42 pm August 8, 2019

Pauri (UKD): A ten-year-old girl from Nepal was raped and killed allegedly by two Nepalese nationals at Kotdwar in the district sparking tension in the area, police said on Thursday. The partially mutilated body of the girl, who had been missing since Monday evening, was recovered from railway station premises after the perpetrators were arrested […]