Nepal News

Since the first successful ascent of Mount Everest, 60 years ago next week, the Himalayas have become far more accessible to walkers.

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

Prateek Pradhan has been appointed the new editor-in-chief of the Nagarik daily on Friday.

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.

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.

KUALA LUMPUR: A court yesterday sentenced a lawyer and three farm workers to death over the murder of a glamorous cosmetics tycoon and her three associates.

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.

Ncell, a private mobile service provider, has provided various security and logistics equipments to Nepal Police and Traffic Police in its endeavor to support security agencies to strengthen their capacity to deliver better services to the people on time.

For the past year and a half, graphic journalist and Fulbright fellow Dan Archer travelled to Bhaktapur, Kavre, Makwanpur, Dang, and Mahendranagar gathering testimonies from trafficking survivors.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The first woman from Saudi Arabia to scale Mount Everest says she doesn't intend to inspire a movement, but would be happy to change people's opinions of Saudi women and Saudi women's opinions of themselves.

When Mark Jenkins reached the summit of Mount Everest last year, he barely had space to take in the view.

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KATHMANDU: An Indian woman who lost her leg after she was thrown from a moving train two years ago has become the first female amputee to climb Everest, expedition organisers said Wednesday.