Tag Archives: Nepal

Wednesday, 28 June 2017 KATHMANDU – Nepalis began voting in the second round of local elections on Wednesday, a key step towards holding a general election later this year that would complete a near decade-long democratic transition after the abolition of its monarchy. The latest round of voting covers parts …

Wednesday, 28 June 2017 KATHMANDU – Nepalis began voting in the second round of local elections on Wednesday, a key step towards holding a general election later this year that would complete a near decade-long democratic transition after the abolition of its monarchy. The latest round of voting covers parts …

Wednesday, 28 June 2017 KATHMANDU – Nepalis began voting in the second round of local elections on Wednesday, a key step towards holding a general election later this year that would complete a near decade-long democratic transition after the abolition of its monarchy. The latest round of voting covers parts …

Thursday, 8 June 2017 It is estimated that by the year 2050, 25% of the world’s population will be water insecure, with countries like Bangladesh, China and India set to experience a “chronic or recurrent” lack of access to clean water. On Tuesday United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pointed out …

Wednesday, 7 June 2017 Kathmandu – Nepal’s parliament on Tuesday elected an unopposed 3-time former prime minister to the top post once again, the tenth time in just over a decade the leadership has changed hands in the Himalayan nation. Sher Bahadur Deuba, a wily political veteran, stood unopposed in …

Thursday, 25 May 2017 Kathmandu – Rescuers found the bodies of 4 climbers on Mount Everest, an expedition organiser said Wednesday, taking the season’s death toll to 10 as experts warn cut-price mountaineering outfits are putting clients at risk. The climbers were found inside a tent at camp 4, at …

Thursday, 25 May 2017 Kathmandu – Nepal’s Maoist prime minister resigned Wednesday as part of a planned handover to a former political foe who will be the impoverished nation’s tenth leader since the end of the civil war in 2006. Pushpa Kamal Dahal, a former guerrilla chief who led the …

Wednesday, 12 April 2017 Chitwan (Nepal): All hell broke loose as the one-horned rhino stepped out of the crate, the powerful male charging elephant-mounted mahouts relocating him to a new home in Nepal’s far west in the hope of shoring up the vulnerable species. The cantankerous male, whose single horn …

Wednesday, 29 March 2017 KATHMANDU – Nepal is urging climbers on Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, to help remove garbage from a camp abandoned 2 years ago after an earthquake triggered avalanches killing 18 people, as officials prepare to handle a rush of climbers. Tourism and mountain climbing are …

Tuesday, 21 February 2017 KATHMANDU: Nepal will hold its first local elections in two decades in May, the government has announced, a key moment in the country’s fraught transition to democracy. The impoverished Himalayan nation emerged from a brutal decade-long civil war in 2006, which brought the end of the …