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 (...)
Last June, Nepal's Tourism Ministry announced plans to move Everest base camp lower down the famous mountain because global warming and human activity were making it unsafe.
The camp sits on the Khumbu glacier which is thinning rapidly, creating (...)
The Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Dawah and Guidance of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has inaugurated at the Saudi Embassy in the Republic of Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques' gift program for distributing dates for (...)
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 rocked Nepal on Tuesday with strong tremors being felt across the Indian capital New Delhi and surrounding areas.
"An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.9 on the Richter Scale hit Nepal at 2:30 p.m. today," (...)
The co-pilot of the ill-fated flight that crashed in Nepal on Sunday lost her husband in a plane crash 16 years earlier, it has emerged.
Anju Khatiwada was co-piloting Yeti Airlines flight 691 when it smashed into a gorge near the tourist town of (...)
Violence has moved to the "center stage of Indian public life", Thomas Blom Hansen, an anthropologist at Stanford University, argued two years ago.
He wondered why ordinary Indians seemed to either "tacitly endorse, or actively participate" in (...)
The pilot of the flight that crashed in Nepal did not report "anything untoward" as the plane approached the airport, a spokesman said.
Anup Joshi said that the "mountains were clear and visibility was good", adding there was a light wind and "no (...)
A passenger plane with 72 people onboard has crashed near Pokhara International Airport in Nepal, the daily newspaper Kathmandu Post reported Sunday, according to AP.
The plane was carrying a total of 68 passengers and four crew members, the (...)
Nepalis are observing a day of mourning for victims of the country's worst air disaster for some three decades.
At least 68 people died when a flight from Kathmandu to the tourist town of Pokhara crashed and caught fire on Sunday morning.
Mobile (...)
Dozens of people have been killed after a plane with 72 people on board crashed near an airport in central Nepal.
The Yeti Airlines flight from Kathmandu to the tourist town of Pokhara crashed on landing before catching fire.
Videos posted on social (...)
An earthquake in the mountains of west Nepal rocked the Himalayan nation in early Wednesday, killing at least six people while they were asleep in their houses, a government administrator said.
The earthquake was felt as far away as the the Indian (...)
A powerful earthquake struck Nepal on Wednesday, killing at least six people and destroying several houses, the DPA quoted officials as saying.
At least six others were injured in the magnitude 6.6 earthquake that hit the country's western region at (...)
A powerful earthquake struck Nepal on Wednesday, killing at least six people and destroying several houses, the dpa quoted officials as said.
At least six others were injured in the magnitude 6.6 earthquake that hit the country's western region at (...)