18 March 2019: The US Department of State has claimed that an estimated 5.4 million people in Nepal do not have “citizenship documentation”. In its recently-published Country Reports on Human Rights…
17 March 2019: The heartbroken family of Ethiopian Airlines crash victim Ekta Adhikari is reportedly preparing to perform her funeral rites with sacred kush grass doll as her remains. Hindus…
15 March 2019: Investigation triggered by a single tip-off has forced an Indian restaurant in Queensland to pay a total of $54,470 in back-pay to its nearly two dozen employees including…
11 March 2019: Ekta Adhikari, a Nepalese citizen working for World Food Programme (WFP), has been identified as one of 157 victims of the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash near Addis Ababa.…
Ram Khatry, 10 March 2019: Nepalese people often berate their political leaders for cowering down to either the Indian or the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu. Historically, most governments are conceived…
9 March 2019: Motor accident victim Nishma Shrestha’s remains will not be flown back to Nepal as her husband and brother have decided to perform the La Trobe University student’s…
Federation of Indian Associations of NSW (FIAN) is inviting Australians from all walks of life to Holi 2019, a festival of colours and music. The free-entry event will be held…
6 March 2019: Members of Sydney’s Indian community are in mourning following gruesome discovery of the body of Dr Preethi Reddy, a dentist who had been reported missing by her…
5 March 2019: Police in New South Wales hold “serious concerns” for a dentist from Western Sydney who has been missing for three days. A CCTV footage has shown Preethi…
4 March 2019: Pentagon has contracted two M28 Skytruck aircraft for Nepali Army with a view to enhance its “air capability”. Both will be brand new planes straight from the factory…
3 March 2019: Report of a parliamentary inquiry into the efficacy of current regulation of Australian migration and education agents has highlighted a number of issues that resonate concerns often raised by…
26 February 2018: A Nepalese man will serve almost a decade in UK jail after a jury found him guilty of vicious sexual offences against a 13-year-old girl. Police said…
25 February 2019: Emergency services will be racing against time tomorrow when they resume a multi-agency search operation to locate a 22-year-old Nepalese student. He was swept off into the…
24 February 2019: Outpouring of grief by residents of a US town suggests a slain Nepalese man was an extremely kind and caring convenience store owner who knew most locals…
22 February 2019: A Nepalese woman has given a Singaporean politician crash course in the proud history of Gurkhas and why Singapore needs these fearsome fighters from the Himalayan foothills.…
21 February 2019: AIBT is urging its international students not to switch to other training entities because its operations are “business as usual”. Responding to a query from southasia.com.au, Fiona…
By Ram Khatry 20 February 2019 A representative of the Australian Skills Quality Authority (ASQA) has indicated there are more training providers in Australia that do not have the required…
19 February 2019: A scrutiny of recent media reports about rape and murder of young Nepalese girls, merely 10 to 13 years of age, reveals an extremely confronting development –…
By Ram Khatry 17 February 2019 A 2018 press statement by Airbus has been found to clearly mention that the two planes at the centre of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC)…
16 February 2019: People in Nepal have long lost faith in their politicians. They mostly have a ready-made view about their netas and it is not a nice one; it…
