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Queen gives assent to British gay marriage law

Queen Elizabeth II has given her Assent to the UK's same-sex marriage Bill on 25 July 2013 which aims at officially approving marriage equality in England and Wales. The new law recognizes GBTI p

बीपी र महेन्द्रः किन मिल्न सकेनन्, मिलेका भए के हुन्थ्यो ?

(यस प्रलेखको सम्पादित प्रमुख अंशहरु नेपाल राष्ट्रिय साप्ताहिक (आइतबार, १३ साउन, २०७०, पृ.२६–३१) मा प्रकाशित भएको छ ।) नेपाल राष्ट्रिय साप्ताहिकमा यो लेख हेर्न यहाँ क्लिक गर्नुहोस् । नेपालको राजनी

Language, Literature, and Religion of Nepal

Hodgson’s Essays on the Language, Literature and Religion of Nepal and Tibet (London: Trubner & Company, 57 & 58 Ludgat Hill, 1874) No other contemporary scholar than Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800

The First Modern Nepali-English Dictionary

Professor Ralph Lilley Turner’s A Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of the Nepali Language (London: Kegan Paul, Trench and Trubner Co Ltd. 1931) Professor Ralph Lilley Turner’s A Comparativ

The Land of Gurkhas

William Brook Northey, The Land of the Gurkhas or The Himalayan Kingdom of Nepal [Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1937] William Brook Northey’s The Land of the Gurkhas or The Himalayan Kingdom o

Gimlette's Account of Nepal

Lieutenant Colonel George Hart Desmond Gimlette’s Nepal and the Nepalese (London: H. F. & G. Witherbyn, 1927) was published at a time when the Prime Minister of Nepal was Chandra Shamsher JBR. Th

Amendment of the Constitution

Lecture Note of Dr Bipin Adhikari, National Law College, LL.M First Year, May 17, 2013.) (Student notes /not to be quoted/cited for any purpose other than at classrooms) The provision on amendmen

Nepal in Yuan Chwang's Travel Records

(Vol 06, No. 22, May 10, 2013) Thomas Watters' two volume book On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629-645 A.D. (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1904/1905) was put in order from an unpublished manu

The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal

Rajendralala Mitra, The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal, [Calcutta: The Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1882] Gautam Buddha, also known as the Shakyamuni, was born in the Western foothill of Nep