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A virus similar to the SARS pathogen has claimed 81 lives since emerging in a market in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, and spread around the world. Here are the places that have confirmed cases of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus: China As of Monday, more than 2700 people have been infected across China, the […]
After facing the consequences of climate change first-hand in their own villages, the nuns decided to start marching with two strong messages
Mountaineering has become big business since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first ascent of Everest in 1953
Nepali mountain guide Kami Rita Sherpa has set a new world record by climbing Mount Everest for a 24th time
The accident is believed to have happened either late Thursday or Friday, but there are no surviving witnesses
Nepal’s efforts to increase its tigers are part of a 13-country plan to double the number of tigers worldwide
‘It was almost like a stampede; people were falling on the floor.’
The newspaper was subpoenaed on contempt of court charges for articles which implied that the chief justice wanted to hold office for longer
Former child soldier Mira Rai has become a star athlete who is blazing a trail for women in Nepal.
Nepalis were fleeing Kathmandu as aftershocks rocked the area following an earthquake. The death toll in Nepal has risen to 4 310.
The death toll continued to rise in Nepal on Sunday after an earthquake devastated the heavily populated Kathmandu Valley.
Nepal has agreed to set up a relief fund for Sherpas who are killed or injured in climbing accidents after Mount Everest’s deadliest disaster to date.
After 13 colleagues died in an avalanche, Nepalese guides and climbers have cancelled Everest expeditions, with anger growing over sherpas’ poor pay.
At least 13 people have been killed in the deadliest accident on the world’s highest mountain.
Tigers are more numerous in Nepal than at any time since the 1970s, a census has shown, giving conservationists hope that the big cats can be saved.
A row over a speech by the Dalai Lama has scuttled key talks between India and China as the two nations vie for power and influence in the region.
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/ 21 October 2011
Scientists in Nepal are to build a DNA database of the endangered Bengal tiger by recording a unique genetic fingerprint from each adult’s faeces.
An aircraft taking tourists on a sightseeing trip around Mount Everest has crashed into a hillside near the Nepalese capital Kathmandu.
A powerful 6.9-magnitude earthquake rocked north eastern India on Sunday, killing as many as eight people including five who died in tremors in Nepal.
Nepalese police have detained an Indian man in connection with the triple bomb blasts in Mumbai on July 13 that killed 24 people.
Nepal has cleared the country’s last remaining minefield, nearly five years after the end of its decade-long civil war with Maoist insurgents.
A team of Nepali mountaineers hopes to climb Mount Everest to clear the mountain’s "death zone" of rubbish and remove the bodies of dead climbers.
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/ 4 December 2009
Nepal’s Cabinet met close to the base camp of Mount Everest on Friday to send a message on the impact of global warming on the Himalayas.
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/ 2 November 2009
Nepal is to hold a Cabinet meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the impact of global warming ahead of next month’s climate-change talks.
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/ 21 September 2009
The UN human rights agency has pressed Nepal for action against perpetrators of ”torture and disappearances” during a decade-long Maoist rebellion.
A former Maoist rebel commander said on Tuesday the group plans to recruit thousands of fighters, a move seen as a blow to peace.
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/ 20 November 2008
Shops were shut and cars stayed off the streets in Kathmandu on Thursday in a protest against the murder of two men blamed on Nepal’s ruling Maoists.
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/ 20 October 2008
A team of Japanese adventurers says it has discovered footprints it believes were made by the legendary yeti.
A passenger plane crashed on landing at a remote airfield in Nepal’s Everest region Wednesday, killing 18 people most of whom were German tourists.
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/ 4 September 2008
India and Nepal are trading barbs in an escalating dispute over the failure of flood defences that left millions of people destitute.
Nepali police detained hundreds of angry Tibetan refugees who tried to storm a Chinese consular office in Kathmandu on Friday.