It is a simple vegetarian spread 'with less spices and oil' for Prime Minister Narendra Modi while his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif is having halal meat dishes during their stay in Nepal for the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Summit.
India on Saturday announced a relief assistance of NRs 48 million for the victims of recent floods and landslide in different parts of Nepal, which has claimed nearly 220 lives in two weeks.
Nepal government on Wednesday declared dead the 123 people missing in the country's worst landslide in over a decade, taking the death toll from the disaster to 156, as the search for the bodies buried under the debris was called off.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday had simple vegetarian meal prepared by an Indian chef for lunch after his arrival on a two-day official visit.
A massive avalanche on Friday struck Mount Everest killing at least 13 Nepalese Sherpa guides and injuring several others in the deadliest mountaineering accident on the world's highest peak.
Brushing aside opposition from the Dravida Munetra Kazhagam and other parties in Tamil Nadu, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday met Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa but did not give him any assurance on which way India will vote on a the United Nations Human Rights Council resolution for an independent international probe into rights abuses during the war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Leaders from the seven-nation Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation on Tuesday vowed to jointly combat the growing threat of terrorism, transnational crimes and drug trafficking and agreed to intensify efforts to enhance connectivity and cooperation in areas like trade, energy and environment.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's wish to visit his birth place in Pakistan's Punjab province, where he was born over 81 years ago, may not materialise before the end of his tenure.
Nepal's Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist on Thursday demanded a suspension of the vote counting, alleging conspiracy after initial results showed the party trailing at third position in the constituent assembly elections.
Nearly 70 per cent of Nepal's electorate voted on Tuesday to choose an assembly that will draft a new constitution to end years of turmoil and political uncertainty though balloting was hit by sporadic violence, including vandalism and explosions that injured a dozen.
Rejecting reports about a rift between him and Congress President Sonia Gandhi, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday asserted that there was no truth in it as the two worked together almost on all issues.
Nepal on Wednesday felicitated some of the top names in mountaineering, including an Indian, to mark the diamond jubilee of the first human ascent of Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh arrived in Tokyo on Monday on a three-day visit to Japan to invigorate bilateral strategic ties and push for a civil nuclear energy cooperation deal.
Two 21-year-old Indian sisters have scripted history by becoming the first twins ever to conquer the summit of Mount Everest together. Tashi and Nancy Malik from Dehra Dun achieved this feat by successfully reaching the world's highest mountain peak at 8,848 meters, said an official at Nepal's ministry of tourism and culture.
Chief Justice Khil Raj Regmi was on Thursday sworn-in as Nepal's new prime minister to head an interim government that will hold elections in three months, ending a long political deadlock in the country.
In a major policy shift, Nepal's ruling Maoists will adopt a new path to socialism through capitalism and they may also give up their anti-India stance at the upcoming national convention of the party.
Nepal's most powerful politician and Maoist supremo Prachanda was on Friday left shaken after a young activist, believed to be a supporter of his own party, slapped him in full public view. The incident took place during a tea reception hosted by Prachanda's Unified Communist Party of Nepal - Maoist to mark the festivals of Deepawali, Chhath and Nepalese New Year in Kathmandu.
All 19 people, mostly foreigners, aboard a Dornier aircraft of a private airline were killed on Friday morning as the plane crashed minutes after taking off from the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu.
Nepal's ruling UCPN-Maoist has suspended its supremo Prachanda's son Prakash Dahal from the party and from a powerful state affairs committee over his alleged extramarital affair with a student leader.
Nepal's Madhesi Peoples Rights Forum-Democratic, the second largest partner in the ruling Maoist-led coalition, today suffered a jolt as 10 of its top leaders quit from the party to form a new group.
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