Kathmandu, Oct 24 : The Nepali Congress (NC) has claimed that the Maoists are trying to promote a former People''s Liberation Army (PLA) commander to the coveted post of Chief of Nepal Army (NA).

Nepali Congress leader Shovakar Parajuli on Thursday said that the Maoists are covertly engaged in promoting Nanda Kishore Pun as the next Army chief.

Kathmandu - Nepal's former king and his family members face a possible cut in their electricity supply due to hundreds of thousands of dollars in unpaid electricity bills, officials said Friday.

The officials said they have had no response from former king Gyanendra or his family members despite notices warning them to pay the outstanding amount or face electricity cuts within 15 days.

The deadline is the first week of November.

Kathmandu, Oct 23 : Nepal Prime Minister Prachanda inaugurated the National symposium on Public-Private Partnership (PPP) here on Wednesday.

Addressing the opening ceremony of the symposium, Prachanda said the model of PPP is the best alternative for the development of Nepal. We not only need peace but also an economic development to sustain that peace.

“The PPP was required to build big projects so that local people can themselves emulate the model in building small and medium size development projects,” he added.

Prachanda also called for change in the mindset and culture in line with the political change in the country.

Kathmandu - A bomb went off in a busy government office in south-eastern Nepal on Wednesday, wounding at least eight people, police said.

The bomb targeted land revenue office in the regional town of Janakpur, about 250 kilometres south-east of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, at a time when the office was crowded with people.

The police said the blast was caused by an improvised explosive device that was hurled at the office by two men on a motorcycle.

Three of the injured, including a government employee, were in serious condition, the police said.

A rebel group calling itself Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha (JTTM) claimed responsibility for the attack.

Police said they were investigating the incident.

Kathmandu, Oct 22: Nepal’s Commerce Secretary Purushottam Ojha has said that both Nepal and India have agreed to amend the bilateral trade treaty within three months.

Talking to media after the meeting in Delhi on Tuesday, Ojha said the parties had agreed on the clauses to be amended in the existing bilateral trade treaty.

He further said the meeting to work out the amendments would be held in Kathmandu. The treaty has been renewed twice since it was signed in 1996.

The two countries have been discussing the amendments for the last two years.

Kathmandu - Nepal's government has warned dozens of armed rebels groups to take up the offer of peace talks or face the consequences, media reports said Wednesday.

Home Minister Bam Dev Gautam said the government would use force to disarm the rebel groups if they do not take up the offer of peace talks, Kantipur newspaper reported.

The warning came less than a month after the government invited dozens of rebel groups in southern and eastern Nepal to start negotiations to end violence that has claimed hundreds of lives in the past two years.