Sushila Karki officially assumed office as Nepal's prime minister on Sunday, two days after being sworn in to lead an interim government, according to local media reports.
Karki, the country's first woman premier and former chief justice, was (...)
Nepal began easing restrictions Saturday after former Chief Justice Sushila Karki was sworn in as interim prime minister, becoming the country's first woman to hold the post.
Authorities lifted the curfew and prohibitory orders in Kathmandu, though (...)
At a bus stand in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, the anxious faces tell their own story.
Nepalis who once came to India in search of work are now hurrying back across the border, as the nation reels with its worst unrest in decades. "We are (...)
Nepal's army has deployed patrols on the streets of Kathmandu, as the Himalayan nation reels from its worst unrest in decades.
Fierce protests against corruption and nepotism spiralled further on Tuesday into arson and violence. The prime minister (...)
NNepal's prime minister KP Sharma Oli has resigned as anti-corruption protests escalated in the country's capital Kathmandu. The protesters stormed the parliament building and set fire to several government structures.
More than a dozen people were (...)
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 (...)
