Kathmandu, Nepal News

Maoist affiliated students march along the street shouting slogans against the government, in Kathmandu yesterday.

Beyond the complexity of the pedestrian environment in Kathmandu, there is also the issue on air pollution.

A general staff meeting of the PLA this week decided to hold competitive sports events among various clubs from PLA and outside to mark the seventh PLA Day.

The number of Chinese visitor arrivals has been drastically soared up in Nepal since August, showed the figure released by Nepal's Immigration Office, Tribhuvan International Airport.

Nepal-based Yamaha dealers and other business companies have on Saturday captured the public road at Durbar Marg in Kathmandu Metropolis.

Kathmandu - Thousands of Hindu devotees have flocked to a village in Nepal ahead of the planned sacrifice of more than 300,000 animals in a ceremony condemned by animal rights activists, including French actress Brigitte Bardot.

According to a press release issued by the company, one of the new locations will operate at an altitude of 17,600 feet making it the highest money transfer agent location in the world, while the other is said to operate at Namche Bazaar .

After passing Mount Everest on the left, the Druk Air Airbus 319 weaves its way down a narrow mountain valley to land at Paro.

By Gopal Sharma Kathmandu - At least 15 000 buffalo and "countless" goats and birds were sacrificed in a temple in southern Nepal, organisers said on Wednesday, a ritual billed as the single biggest animal slaughter on earth.

According to Deputy Spokesperson at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rudra Nepal, the delegation is scheduled to meet leaders of the UCPN , Nepali Congress and CPN-UML. The delegation is also vising Lumbini on Thursday.

Sherchan, left, shakes hands with Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal in Kathmandu yesterday, as he receives a certificate formally recognising him as the oldest man to climb Mt Everest A 78-year-old grandfather from Nepal has wrested back from his Japanese rival the record of being the oldest man to conquer Mt Everest, the highest peak in ...

Agencies Kathmandu, Nov 21: Nepal's deposed king Gyanendra has for the first time acquired a passport in his name at the age of 64, more than a year after he became a commoner, a Foreign Ministry official said.

A WELLINGTON woman who until recently had "struggled with more than two flights of stairs" has just completed a six day hike in the mountains of Nepal for charity.

By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Nov 16 : The three-day security talks between the home ministers of India and Nepal, scheduled to have started in New Delhi Tuesday, have been postponed indefinitely due to the mounting turmoil in Nepal.

A Hindu festival in which hundreds of thousands of animals are expected to be sacrificed will go ahead as scheduled in southern Nepal despite protests, organizers said Friday.

Why would a one-time Nepal trekker ever want to eat Nepalese food again? Is it masochism - or is it just that Nepal casts such a powerful spell? You just know there must be better food there than the austere vegan fare of the high-country Sherpa inns or the fake-Western restaurant "treats" of Kathmandu.

India Gazette Wednesday 18th November, 2009 New Delhi, Nov.18 : Professor S. D. Muni, India's self proclaimed Nepal expert talking to a daily in Kathmandu, has refuted media allegations that he is associated with RAW , India's notorious intelligence agency.

KATHMANDU: Amidst the ongoing political impasse and uncertainty, Maoist Chairman Pushapa Kamal Dahal said on Tuesday that he is hopeful that the deadlock will end after he returns home Wednesday from his three-day trip to Singapore.

Editor's note: Robynne Locke, a Seabrook native, is on a three-month odyssey of personal discovery and unselfish giving in India and Nepal.

He is famous for his fiery speeches, but Prachanda, Nepal's Maoist leader, projected a dramatically different image last week when he danced in the streets with one of the country's top actresses.