22-year-old Nepalese woman allegedly gang-raped in New Delhi
16 May 2019: A 22-year-old Nepalese woman was allegedly gang-raped by four men in Dwarka area of New Delhi, a number of Indian media outlets have reported. The woman,…
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Anushka Shrestha: Nepal exported an international student, Australia returned a Miss Nepal
10 May 2019: The first time Anushka Shrestha, a former student of the Australian Catholic University (ACU), realised that she had just been crowned Miss World Nepal 2019 was the…
UK court jails Nepalese man for sex offences against 13-year-old schoolgirl
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…
Nepalese man dies in fatal car crash near Wollongong
11 January 2018: Another tragedy hits the Australian Nepalese community as a young father loses life in a fatal car crash near Wollongong. Sujan Dahal was travelling to Taree to…
UK man of Nepalese origin gets 13-year jail term for raping young, vulnerable man
7 January 2018: A UK court has sentenced Deukumar Limbu, a 43-year-old man of Nepalese origin, to 13 years in prison for raping and sexually assaulting a 22-year-old vulnerable man.…
Country town boy is Nepalese diaspora’s latest writer, at just 11
16 August 2017: Creativity of an eleven-year-old Nepalese school boy from the Mid North Coast of New South Wales is such that he has just published his first book and…
Sydney hotel stay irked Mahabir Pun on the final night of his Australian tour
15 August 2017: Mahabir Pun, the man behind Nepal’s National Innovation Centre, left Australia little unhappy and little mortified because he had to spend the last night of his Australia…
Taste of Trump: US charters plane to deport 7 Nepalese men, a first for Tribhuvan International Airport
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 8 June 2017 The US Government chartered an entire plane this week to deport seven Nepalese citizens which, a top immigration official in Kathmandu told southasia.com.au, could…
Visionary Nepalese doctor Sanduk Ruit invited to contribute to 3D-printed book commemorating Albert Einstein’s greatest work
By Ram Khatry, Sydney 3 June 2017 Ramon Magsaysay Award winner Dr Sanduk Ruit has been nominated to be one of hundred greatest innovators, artists, scientists and visionaries of the…
Queensland-based Nepalese driver caught drink-driving 3rd time was so drunk he “appeared to have wet his pants”
30 October 2016: A Nepalese driver from Toowoomba is in news because of his habitual drink-driving. Queensland Police caught him three times in less than five years including last July when…
Melbourne woman’s mission to raise $84,000 so that a bunch of Kathmandu kids can have a safe school
13October 2016: A young Melbourne woman, who was in Nepal months before the devastating earthquake, is doing everything she can to provide a safer and modern learning environment to a bunch of underprivileged…
Oz-based Nepalese artistes launch first completely Australian album, “Udaan”
12 Sep 2016: A group of Sydney-based Nepalese singers and lyricists have produced the first completely “homegrown” Australian Nepalese album following two years of hard work and dedication. Unlike previous productions, all singers…
Gone are the days of “Nepalese embassy” in Canberra, welcome “Nepali embassy”
30 Aug 2016: What’s in a word? For Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, one word has become a matter of national identity and the newly sworn-in foreign minister wants the…
Queen Elizabeth “obviously very proud of Prince Harry’s charity work in Nepal”
Nepalese man Sanu Gurung and his wife Anna were beside themselves when Queen Elizabeth’s equerry (an officer of the British royal household) asked if they “would like the opportunity to…
Stepmother sells Nepalese girl for over $100,000 to be raped by Goa politician
A politician from the Indian state of Goa has been arrested for paying approximately $101,000 to buy a 16 year old girl from Nepal. He is alleged to have raped the…
Rising stars of diaspora honoured with NAV Community Awards
Nepalese Association of Victoria (NAV) has honoured a number of Australian Nepalese for their contribution to their community, a community recognised as the fastest growing diaspora in the land. NAV…
Mangali Tamang, Prince Harry’s host tonight, will kill two ‘local chickens’ for her royal guest
Few vernacular media outlets in Nepal have finally broken the story about the much-anticipated address Britain’s Prince Harry would spend his Monday night at. It is far from Kensington Palace. And, it is certainly…
Poetry, the portrait of my canvas
By Sanu Ghimire, Sydney “If you can walk you can dance, if you can talk you can sing,” so goes the popular saying. Unfortunately, things do not work for me…
One dollar a month to change lives, Australian Nepalese women’s group isn’t asking for much
A group of Australian Nepalese women committed to helping the less fortunate of their sisters back in Nepal will use this year’s International Women’s Day to launch an undeniable and unique fund-raising programme.…
Nepalese citizen facing imminent execution in Saudi Arabia
A foreign worker from Nepal is facing imminent execution in Saudi Arabia after the victim’s family refused to grant him amnesty. Dil Bahadur Kami from Palpa district was sentenced to death…
