Kathmandu, Nepal News

Roma Sherpa, 55, a resident of Kapan in Kathmandu, sat on her heels after making 10 rounds of the Baudhanath Stupa, Saturday afternoon.

With Kathmandu Valley receiving record rainfall Thursday, meteorologists are expecting a timely and normal monsoon this year.

Even as the government starts investigating the illegal video call that British climber Daniel Thomas Hughes made from the top of Mount Everest, it has come to light that he already left Nepal on Wednesday.

I recently drove from west to east and past the lodges, resorts, camps and hotels that lie along and outside the northern border of the Chitwan National Park.

Three mountaineers from West Bengal, who were missing for the last two days during an expedition to Mount Dhaulagiri in Nepal, were on Friday traced and taken to the base camp in Kathmandu.

Sri Lankan police said the monk set himself on fire today near the famed Temple of Buddha's Tooth Relic in the central town of Kandy.

VOA correspondent Aru Pande talks to Tibetans who, for decades, have made the Himalayan country their home.

This handout picture taken by Miura Dolphins on May 22, 2013 and received on May 23, 2013 shows 80-year-old Japanese adventurer Yuichiro Miura and his son Gota posing for a picture as they leave the C4 camp to ascent to the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal.

There's nothing revolutionary about what we're pushing for," stressed T N Pathik, the founder of Pathik Foundation, as we were midway in our conversation about the current education system.

As dusk slowly approaches and a day's hectic schedule comes to an end, she makes her way home to Dhobighat, Lalitpur.

As the last Governor General of British India, acting in concert with Jawaharlal Nehru and Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Lord Mountbatten helped partition the Subcontinent.

A book authored by 100 women, giving snapshots of their lives in Britain today, is now on sale to raise funds for women's projects in Nepal.

Around 20,000 Nepali migrant workers have been stranded in Nepal's capital city Kathmandu due to a shortage of air tickets and an exorbitant hike in ticket prices on the Gulf route.

Dharamshala: - A terror plot to poison two Tibetan youths - Tashi Gyaltsen@Tashi Dhondup and Karma Yeshi@Tashi by Chinese Security Agencies aimed at spreading chaos and terror in the Tibetan community was uncovered.

Sixty years after the first successful ascent of Everest, it's time to revel in the ancient temples, royal palaces and rooftop restaurants in the Nepalese capital This month sees the 60th anniversary of the historic first ascent of Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, on May 29, 1953.

Glaciers on or around Everest have shrunk 13% in 50 years with the snow line 180 metres higher than it was 50 years ago Researchers say they suspect that the decline of snow and ice in the Everest region is a result of changes in global climate.

As the two Maoist parties marked the 14th 'Day of the Disappeared' on May 21 - the day in 1999 when four CPN central committee members went missing from Tebahal, Kathmandu - the two sets of leaders must have felt a pang of guilt.

KATHMANDU: Five climbers, including the first Hungarian to scale Mount Everest, are missing and feared dead on Nepal's treacherous Kangchenjunga mountain, tourism officials said Thursday.

An 80-year-old Japanese climber reached the summit of Mount Everest on Thursday, becoming the oldest person to scale the world's highest mountain, his website and a Nepalese official said.

The Nepalese priest climbs on top of the chariot to perform coconut dropping rituals during the Rato Machhindranath chariot festival in Lagankhel, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal, May 21, 2013.