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Former Britain Prime Minister Boris Johnson. (Photo: AP)

Farrukh Dhondy | How I know that BoJo tells lies… He’s been doing it for a long time!

At least five of his nominations are of internal functionaries who know what went on with him and what went on in the Conservative Party HQ

24 Jun 2023 12:00 AM

Rescuers pull the body of a victim who died in a Yeti Airlines plane crash in Pokhara on January 16, 2023. (Photo: AFP)

AA Edit | Nepal air crash: Blot on aviation safety

The Nepal crash involved a 15-year-old ATR turbo-prop aircraft, which may have evolved from the bullock carts of aviation of previous eras

17 Jan 2023 12:15 AM

Unlike in the past, China no longer counsels Nepal to keep on good terms with India. (Representational Image/ANI)

Anand K Sahay | China tilt by Kathmandu to disturb ties with India

If a question is seen as having attained immediacy or maturity, in the India-Nepal case the time is now. And the reason is China

06 Jan 2023 12:00 AM

French serial killer Charles Sobhraj (C) sits in an aircraft departing from Kathmandu to France, on December 23, 2022. - French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, responsible for multiple murders in the 1970s across Asia, was freed on December 23 after spending almost 20 years in a Nepali prison. (Photo: AFP)

Farrukh Dhondy | Revisiting the ‘Serpent’ saga: My encounters with Sobhraj

Sobhraj first got in touch with me in 1997. He rang my office at Channel Four TV, UK, where I was a commissioning editor

31 Dec 2022 12:21 AM

Mountaineers received expedition certificates during the spring season of 2016 without successfully climbing the world's highest mountain, picture usedfor representational purposes only (Image source: AFP)

Nepal bans three Indian climbers for six years for faking Mt Everest summit

The climbers had received the certificates of climbing the 8,848.86m mountain by submitting false details to the Department of Tourism

11 Feb 2021 6:18 PM

Twin earthquakes strike Nepal

The first tremble measuring 4.8 was felt in Dhading, 75 km west of capital Kathmandu, then another measuring 3.2 at the same epicenter

31 May 2020 2:35 PM

As per official records, the calamity has caused damage amounting to over one billion Nepalese rupees. (Photo: ANI)

Death toll soars to 111 due to floods, landslides in Nepal

The district of Gulmi has recorded the highest number of deaths with 13 people having lost their lives in the area.

26 Jul 2019 1:21 PM

Meteorological Forecasting Division has said rainfall will continue for two to three days in most places across the country. (Photo: ANI)

43 dead, over 24 missing, says police: Nepal floods

It has also said, high chances of flash floods in rivers flowing in the mid-hilly regions in Province 1, 2, 3 and Gandaki Province.

14 Jul 2019 11:00 AM

People residing near the rivers especially the Terai region have been advised to be cautious till Saturday. (Photo: ANI | Representative)

Nepal issues warning as water level of major rivers likely to rise

Level of 4 major river basins inside Kathmandu valley- Bagmati, Bishnumati, Manohara, Nakkhu rivers to rise above alert level in few days.

12 Jul 2019 3:13 PM

The incident happened as several parts of the Himalayan nation has been receiving heavy rainfall since Friday morning. (Photo: ANI | Representative)

Plane skids off runway in Kathmandu, flights disrupted

The domestic flight with a call sign 9N-AMM was flying from western city Nepalgunj when it veered off the runway while landing.

12 Jul 2019 3:02 PM

Netra Bikram Chand's CPN has been blamed for extortion, vandalising public and private properties and bomb explosions around the country.

Reinforcements sent to Nepal’s Sankhuwasabha after gunfight with CPN

Security has been beefed up in the mountainous district that borders China after reports stated that the banned CPN had its base there.

01 Jul 2019 6:15 PM

Pasang Sherpa of Peak Promotion in Kathmandu says one of them had scaled the world’s third tallest peak while another was on the way up but fell sick and died. (Representational Image)

Two Indian climbers die on Mount Kanchenjunga in Nepal

The climbers identified as 48-year-old Biplab Baidya and 46-year-old Kuntal Karar fell ill just below the 8,586-meter (28,160-foot) summit.

16 May 2019 12:17 PM

Kavita Seth is popularly known as a playback singer in Hindi cinema, as well as a performer of Ghazals and Sufi music. (Photo: ANI)

Nepal serenaded by the soulful voice of Kavita Seth

Kavita Seth enthralls Sufi music lovers in Nepal.

05 Apr 2019 9:13 AM

Wangchu Sherpa of Trekking Camp Nepal, who organised the expedition, said they raised the alarm after they had not heard from the team for nearly 24 hours. (Representational Image)

8 climbers dead on Nepal's Mount Gurja after snowstorm: officials

Bodies of 8 climbers, including their Nepali guides, were spotted among the wreckage of their camp by a rescue team early Saturday morning.

13 Oct 2018 11:47 AM

1,580 pilgrims are undertaking the 3-week yatra this year using the Lipulekh Pass route in U’khand, that involves trekking, and the motorable Nathu La route in Sikkim suitable for the elderly. Some pilgrims also take Chinese visa and go with private tour operators in Nepal.

1,500 Mansarovar pilgrims stranded, rescue ops begin

Yatris stuck in Nepal, Tibet; 2 die due to severe conditions.

04 Jul 2018 1:07 AM

The virus was found in a flock of 5,633 ducks reared in a backyard in the Kathmandu district, located in the Bagmati zone. It killed 240 animals and the rest were disposed of.

Nepal reports outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu

It was the first outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu in the country since 2017, OIE said in a report posted on its website.

30 May 2018 9:18 AM

Kathmandu will host reception in PM Modi honour

A grand welcome gate decorated with national flags of Nepal and India as well as posters of Oli and Modi will also be installed near the venue.

07 May 2018 12:38 AM

nce she is anointed a living goddess, the Kumari is only allowed to leave her new home 13 times a year on special feast days, when she is paraded through Kathmandu in ceremonial dress and elaborate makeup to be worshipped. (Photo: AFP)

Nepal gets new ‘living goddess’ in three-year-old

Trishna Shakya will be anointed as new Kumari in ceremony when she will be taken from her family home to live in palace in Durbar Square

27 Sep 2017 4:30 PM

Indian Army men climb Mount Everest without using oxygen cylinders

The four soldiers have become the first team to climb earth's highest peak without supplementary oxygen.

03 Jun 2017 4:50 PM

What makes Nepal, Lanka more civilised?

Nepal also has the Tibetan tradition of Buddhism and one of its most spectacular temples is Swayambhunath, also in Kathmandu.

07 May 2017 12:25 AM

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