Nepal News

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.

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

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.

A British climber has angered the Nepalese government by giving an 'illegal' interview to the BBC on his smartphone from the top of Mount Everest.

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.

With the sudden demise of a Nepal Army soldier serving with the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Lebanon last Thursday, the death toll of peacekeepers has reached 59.

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 School Leaving Certificate examination results for this year will be available in the latter part of June 2013.

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

A Nepal Airlines de Havilland DHC-6-300 Twin Otter, registration 9N-ABO performing flight RA-555 from Pokhara to Jomsom with 19 passengers and 3 crew, landed on Jomsom's runway 24 at 08:33L but veered left off the runway, went down the slope to the Kaligandaki river and came to a stop on the bank with the left wing in the water.

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.

Considering the 700,000-plus live birth rate in the country, it is calculated that the prevalence of obstetric fistula is 0.3 to 0.6 every 1,000 deliveries For many women in rural Nepal, motherhood comes at a cost.

At a time when the government is facing pressure to fix the election date right away, senior Nepali Congress leader Sher Bahadur Deuba Friday said the date should be announced 90 days before the elections.

In a sprawling 132-bed hospital in Nepal's capital, patients receive treatment for everything from blood disorders to heart disease - vital services in a country that the United Nations ranks 157th in the world for human development.