Kathmandu, Nepal News

It is no secret that political parties have a symbiotic relationship with criminals and gangsters.

The visit of the Chinese premier Li Keqiang to New Delhi comes in the wake of the heightened border tension and growing mistrust and suspicion between the two neighbouring Asian giants.

"Its a very proud moment to be here. Its been two-and-a-half-years in the making," said a British explorer Daniel Thomas Hughes in the first ever video call from the top of the Mount Everest, Sunday morning.

There is a unique if expected element to the ongoing 'unity convention' between the Rastriya Prajatantra Party and Rastriya Janashakti Party at Bhrikutimandap in the heart of Kathmandu: It is hard to find many young faces among the gathering masses.

Politics comes as an appendage to almost everything in Nepal. Either we almost never tried to separate it from the rest, or it is just the way politics runs in a country inflicted with poverty, illiteracy and corruption, which every decade is witness to a revolution.

Similarities between political trajectories of Nepal and Pakistan after 1960s have been striking.

Kathmandu, May 19: Nepal and India have decided to discuss cross-border crime to curb this menace on the 1,700-km border shared by the two countries, an official said here Sunday.

Saudi woman Raha Moharrak reached the summit of Nepal's Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, in a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom where women's sports are severely restricted, tourism officials said on Sunday.

The umbrella organization of the Nepalese residents in US, the Association of the Nepalese America has set economic agenda for its 31st convention, to be held form 4th -6thJuly in Westchster in US.

The duo was inducted into the party by Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal amid a programme at the party office in Kathmandu.

Traffic chokes the Hillary Step on May 19, 2012. Some climbers spent as long as two hours at this 40-foot rock wall below the summit, losing body heat.

Close links are being forged between pupils in Craven and youngsters in remote village schools in the Dhading district of Nepal.

Hira Pulami peels bark from the trunk of a pine tree burned in a forest fire that broke out in mid-April in Seti Devi village, 16 km southwest of Kathmandu.

The plane was trying to land at Jomsom located some 200km northwest of Kathmandu today when it crashed on the banks of Kaligandaki river, Nepal police said.

A man carries water through a busy alley in Kathmandu. Experts say water management is vital in South Asia due to erratic rain patterns.

Rescue workers are seen at the site of a Nepal Airlines plane crash in Jomsom,s May 16, 2013.

KATHMANDU: Twenty-one people were hurt, including eight Japanese tourists, when a small plane skidded off a Nepal airport runway on Thursday and plunged into a river, police said.

The Swayambhu Nath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal, is all set with the shine of sacred coloured liquid paints to mark the 2557th birth anniversary of the Lord Buddha on May 25.

The final destination of most of the trafficked small arms via the Nepal-India border is Kathmandu Valley, a study has revealed.

A Queenstown climber and the injured companion he rescued after a terrifying fall on a Himalayan mountain are hoping to head home this week.