Supporters of Nepal's former king Gyanendra Shah demanded his abolished monarchy be reinstated and Hinduism brought back as the state religion.
An estimated 10,000 supporters who blocked the main entrance to Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International (...)
RIYADH—The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance has begun implementing the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Gift Program, including the Luxury Dates Gift Program, which was launched through the offices of the religious attachés at the (...)
Nepal has been celebrated globally for tripling its tiger population in a decade — but Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli thinks the country may have been too successful.
"In such a small country, we have more than 350 tigers... We can't have so many (...)
A leading Slovak mountain climber has died while descending a 7,234m (23,730ft) peak in Nepal, after completing the rare feat of scaling the mountain's perilous eastern face.
Ondrej Huserka fell into a crevasse on Thursday, after he and his climbing (...)
Major floods and landslides in Nepal have killed at least 148 people and injured more than 100 across the Himalayan nation, police have reported.
They say more than 50 people were still missing on Sunday, after two days of intense rainfall which (...)
Continuous rainfall has caused severe flooding in Nepal's capital, killing at least 32 people, with another 12 reported missing, police said on Saturday.
The torrential rains, which began Friday night, are expected to continue throughout the (...)
The pilot who survived a deadly plane crash in Nepal was saved after his cockpit was sheared off by a freight container seconds before the rest of the aircraft crashed in flames.
Captain Manish Ratna Shakya, the sole survivor of the disaster that (...)
At least 18 people were killed after a plane crashed and caught fire while it was taking off from Nepal's capital of Kathmandu on Wednesday.
The pilot, who is currently receiving treatment in hospital, is the only survivor of the fatal (...)
Rescuers are searching for more than 60 missing people in Nepal after a massive landslide swept two buses into a river.
Some spoke of their terrifying ordeal, with one saying he was "thrown out of the window of the bus into the river".
Only three (...)
Dozens of Indians have reportedly been duped by agents into fighting for Russian forces inside Ukraine
India says two of its nationals who had been recruited by the Russian army have been killed in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
The Indian foreign (...)
The Nepalese army says it has removed eleven tons of rubbish, four corpses and one skeleton from Mount Everest and two other Himalayan peaks this year.
It took troops 55 days to recover the rubbish and bodies from Everest, Nuptse and Lhotse (...)
Twenty-four hours and 26 minutes, without stopping to sleep: Nepal's Phunjo Lama has just broken the world record for the fastest ascent of Mount Everest by a woman.
Her journey from Everest Base Camp to the top took 14 hours and 31 minutes, then (...)
A controversial spiritual leader, whose supporters believe he is the reincarnation of Buddha, has been arrested in Nepal over sexual abuse charges, according to local police.
Ram Bahadur Bomjan, popularly called 'Buddha Boy' in local media, was (...)
A plane crash in Nepal that killed 72 people, including two infants, was most probably the result of its pilots mistakenly cutting the power, said a report by government-appointed investigators.
This caused a loss of thrust that led to an (...)
A new report using data collected from the Pyramid International Laboratory/Observatory climate station on Mount Everest has found that warming temperatures are triggering what are called katabatic winds, cold winds that are created by air flowing (...)
Nepal has banned China's TikTok because its content "was detrimental to social harmony."
The decision comes days after the country introduced a new rule requiring social media firms to set up liaison offices in the country.
TikTok, which has around (...)
United Nations teams in Nepal are responding to the devastating earthquake in the west of the country, amid reports that over 150 people have been killed and hundreds more injured.
The powerful 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck the remote and rural (...)
More than 150 people have been killed after an earthquake struck remote western Nepal on Friday.
Security forces have been deployed to help rescue efforts in the rugged districts of Jajarkot and West Rukum, 500km (310 miles) west of (...)
UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Monday called on the world to "stop the madness" of climate change as he visited the Everest region in Nepal where melting glaciers are putting entire communities at risk of extinction.
Nepal has lost almost (...)
UN Secretary-General António Guterres began his official visit to Nepal by extending deep condolences to the families of the 10 Nepalese students killed in the terror attacks by Hamas in Israel, and once again called for the protection of all (...)
The bright orange hotel sticks out as far as the eye can see — but unfortunately for its owner Bishnu Sharma, there is hardly anyone there to see it.
His hotel offers breath-taking mountain views from the town of Lumbini in Nepal — Buddha's (...)
A massive teachers' strike in Nepal has entered its third day, disrupting classes for millions of students across all public schools.
About 110,000 teachers are protesting an education reform bill in parliament.
They are against proposals to give (...)
For decades, Nepal has allowed its ethnic Gurkha soldiers to join the Indian army under a special agreement. The practice came to an abrupt halt last year after India introduced a controversial new army hiring plan, straining ties between the two (...)
Torrential rains and unabated construction are frequently triggering disasters in India's Himalayan region.
But an unusual increase in rainfall is making the terrain even more dangerous.
Landslides and flash floods have already killed dozens in the (...)
Officials from two cities in Nepal have said they will not allow Bollywood films to be screened until an "objectionable" line is deleted from a new Indian movie.
The makers of Adipurush say the film is inspired by the Hindu epic Ramayana.
The (...)
