Five and half months after staying away from office over his refusal to take oath in Nepali, Nepal’s Vice President Parmanand Jha retook oath on Sunday---this time in his mother tongue Maithili and ...

WRITERS WITHOUT BORDERS: Assamese writer Rita Chaudhury (above, right) at a panel discussion at the the 22nd Nepal International Book Fair in Kathmandu last week. Her book, Chinatown Days reached a ...

KATHMANDU: The second oath of office and secrecy taken by Vice President Paramananda Jha was not without a controversy either. Taking the oath in Maithili and Nepali languages, Jha was activated in ...

Nepal’s Vice-President Paramananda Jha on Sunday retook his oath of office and secrecy in two languages, Nepali and Maithili, ending the language row which had kept his post “inactive” for more than ...

Nepali has remained lingua franca of all the seven provinces more than four years after the formation of provincial government though the constitution has given provinces the right to recognise ...

At last count Nepal had 129 spoken languages, but even as new ones are identified, others are becoming extinct. At least 24 of the languages and dialects spoken in Nepal are ‘endangered’, and the next ...