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Some allege that, due to her mother's family being from lower-class royals of India and her father's political alliances, the royal family objected. In fact, Devyani's Gwalior family were one of the wealthiest former royal families of India, and allegedly far wealthier than the Nepalese monarchs. The prospective bride's mother warned her ...
Indian Airlines Flight 814, commonly known as IC 814, was an Indian Airlines Airbus A300 that was hijacked on 24 December 1999 by five members of Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.The passenger flight, en route from Kathmandu to Delhi, was taken over shortly after it entered Indian airspace at about 16:53 IST.
The rivalry between Nepal and the British East India Company over the princely states bordering Nepal and British-India eventually led to the Anglo-Nepalese War (1814–16), in which Nepal suffered substantial losses due to lack of guns and ammunitions against the British-Indian forces with advanced weapons.
Ex-King of Nepal Rana Bahadur Shah returned to Nepal from his exile in British India and arrested the members of Pandey faction at Thankot, Kathmandu where they were waiting to greet the ex-King with state honors and take the mentally unstable ex-King into isolation. On March 13, 1804, Rana Bahadur ordered the execution of Damodar Pande along ...
Jayaprakash Malla succeeds King Jagajjaya Malla after the latter's death. [2] [9] [1] 1743: Prithvi Narayan Shah ascends to throne of Gorkha. 1764: British East India Company gains control of Bengal. 1768: Gorkha ruler Prithvi Narayan Shah conquers Kathmandu and lays foundations for unified kingdom. 1769: Conquest of Chaudandi and Majh Kirant ...
Nepal, Nepal: 0 [1] 1962 August 1: Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3) Royal Nepal Airlines: Tulachan Dhuri, Nepal: 10: 1962 Royal Nepal Airlines DC-3 crash [1] 1962 August 26: Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter: Royal Nepal Airlines: Nepal: 0 [1] 1967 February 8: Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter: Swiss Government: Nepal: 0 [1] 1969 July 12: Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC ...
The Great Nepal was seen all along as a threat to Company rule in India till the end of the Anglo-Nepal War of 1814–16. The East India Company actively began preparation for the war from the time when F.R. Warren Hastings - Earl of Moira landed in India as Governor General and Commander-in-Chief in 1813. The actual declaration of war against ...
He founded Nepal after invading Nuwakot in 1744 which started the unification process of the present-day country of Nepal. [6] Shah died on 11 January 1775 after ruling for over 31 years; by the end of his reign, he had won over Nuwakot, Makwanpur, and Nepal Valley. [7] Upon Prithvi Narayan's death, his son Pratap Singh Shah was appointed as ...