Nepal News

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.

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.

Jammu, May 25: A militant and his family who returned illegally to Jammu and Kashmir from Pakistan have been arrested, police said.

The Non-Resident Nepali Association New Zealand Chapter on Thursday signed a Memorandum of understanding with Samata Sikshya Sadan which is also known as 'Bamboo School' providing affordable education to students from poor families.

"Vision without action is a dream. Action without vision is simply passing the time.

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.

US Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake and Ambassador Sharma speaking at the function organized to celebrate Nepal's Republic Day in Washington DC.

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.