Sources: Al Jazeera
Police open fire on protesters demonstrating against a government ban on social media in Kathmandu, Nepal, killing at least 19 people and wounding over a hundred more. A curfew is declared around all government buildings, including the Rastrapati Bhawan and Federal Parliament. 2025-09-8
A Nepali court sentences Ram Bahadur Bomjon, a man who thousands believed was a reincarnation of The Buddha, to 10 years in jail for child sexual abuse. 2024-07-1
French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who received a life sentence in Nepal for murdering 12 tourists between 1963 and 1976, and suspected of murdering also 18 other people, is released from prison due to his old age and good behaviour in accordance with a Supreme Court order. He is deported to France and barred from Nepal for ten years. 2022-12-23
Nepalese investigators release their preliminary report into the disaster. 2018-04-10
In a move likely to cause concern in India, China and Nepal commenced last Sunday the first ever combined military exercises, focusing on counter-terror operations. 2017-04-17
British national Martin Travers is detained in Nepal for allegedly taking part in protests against the Nepalese government. 2016-05-17
Jhala Nath Khanal resigns as the Prime Minister of Nepal due to the failure of Nepalese political parties to adopt a constitution or end infighting. 2011-08-14
A magnitude 5.4 earthquake strikes western Nepal near the Indian border, and is felt in Delhi. 2011-04-4
Nepalese Prime Minister Jhala Nath Khanal begins forming a new national government. 2011-02-4
Haiti police fire tear gas into a camp for internally displaced people in Port-au-Prince after riots over United Nations peacekeepers from Nepal allegedly bringing cholera into the country turn violent. 2010-11-18