In 1951, Nepal had its first tryst with democracy. An iconic hand-wave from a plane by Nepal’s King Tribhuvan in Kathmandu, returning from India seven and a half decades ago, is still synonymous with democracy. People chanted slogans hailing democracy. The airport was later named after him — Tribhuvan International Airport, which caters to both … Read more
On February 16, a third-year woman student from Nepal was found dead by suicide in the Bhubaneswar-based Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT). Initial investigation by the police revealed that harassment from a fellow male student had led the student to take her own life. Other students from Nepal carried out a protest stating that the … Read more
Three years ago, Kathmandu was caught in the crossfire of Washington-Beijing tensions over the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), a multi-million American grant for Nepal. While the United States warned of reviewing its overall ties with Nepal should Kathmandu fail to ratify the MCC-Nepal Compact from Parliament, Beijing referred to the grant as a “Pandora’s box.” … Read more
Members of the Navnirman Krushak Sangathan (NKS) take out a candlelight march in protest over the death of a Nepali student at the Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) campus, in Bhubaneswar on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: PTI A day after more than 500 students from Nepal were forced to leave the campus of Kalinga … Read more
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Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade, officials said on Wednesday. Income from permit fees and other spending by foreign climbers is a key source of revenue and employment for the … Read more
Dozens of people were killed and hundreds of buildings were toppled after a 7.1-magnitude earthquake struck a region near one of Tibet’s holiest cities, close to the Himalayan border with Nepal on Tuesday. Tremors were felt in Nepal. The quake struck shortly after 9 a.m. at a depth of 6.2 miles in Dingri County in … Read more
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India has allowed Nepal to export an additional 251 MW of electricity to the country. Photo for representational purpose | Photo Credit: S.R. Raghunathan India has allowed Nepal to export an additional 251 MW of electricity to the country, marking the first time the Himalayan nation will supply power to Bihar under a medium-term sales … Read more
KATHMANDU: Rescuers in Nepal ruled out chances of finding survivors in last week’s landslide that swept two passenger buses carrying 65 people into a river swollen by heavy rain, authorities said on Monday. Hundreds of security personnel resumed search operations early on Monday to locate the buses and 55 passengers who remained missing, over 72 … Read more