Kathmandu, Nepal News

Saudi woman Raha Moharrak reached the summit of Nepal's Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, in a first for the conservative Muslim kingdom where women's sports are severely restricted, tourism officials said on Sunday.

The umbrella organization of the Nepalese residents in US, the Association of the Nepalese America has set economic agenda for its 31st convention, to be held form 4th -6thJuly in Westchster in US.

The duo was inducted into the party by Maoist Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal amid a programme at the party office in Kathmandu.

Traffic chokes the Hillary Step on May 19, 2012. Some climbers spent as long as two hours at this 40-foot rock wall below the summit, losing body heat.

Close links are being forged between pupils in Craven and youngsters in remote village schools in the Dhading district of Nepal.

Hira Pulami peels bark from the trunk of a pine tree burned in a forest fire that broke out in mid-April in Seti Devi village, 16 km southwest of Kathmandu.

The plane was trying to land at Jomsom located some 200km northwest of Kathmandu today when it crashed on the banks of Kaligandaki river, Nepal police said.

A man carries water through a busy alley in Kathmandu. Experts say water management is vital in South Asia due to erratic rain patterns.

Rescue workers are seen at the site of a Nepal Airlines plane crash in Jomsom,s May 16, 2013.

KATHMANDU: Twenty-one people were hurt, including eight Japanese tourists, when a small plane skidded off a Nepal airport runway on Thursday and plunged into a river, police said.

The Swayambhu Nath Stupa in Kathmandu, Nepal, is all set with the shine of sacred coloured liquid paints to mark the 2557th birth anniversary of the Lord Buddha on May 25.

The final destination of most of the trafficked small arms via the Nepal-India border is Kathmandu Valley, a study has revealed.

A Queenstown climber and the injured companion he rescued after a terrifying fall on a Himalayan mountain are hoping to head home this week.

The news about outer ring road construction had brought cheers to the valley public.

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KATHMANDU, May 14 -- India is planning to spend over Rs 12 billion in welfare and pension schemes for former Gorkha soldiers of the Indian Army.

The y-o-y CPI inflation has increased by 9.5 percent in mid-April 2013 compared to 7.5 percent a year ago, according to the data released by Nepal Rastra Bank .

In a bid to attract Chinese tourists to Nepal, Nepal Association of Tour and Travel Agents in association with Nepal Tourism Board is organizing NATTA China Sales Mission 2013 from May 15 to 24.

Supporters also launched a Facebook page called Free Dorje Gurung . The school teacher, on landing safely in Kathmandu, posted to the Free Dorje Gurung Facebook page, "I still can find no words to thank you enough, words that sufficiently express my own and family's gratitude, for the gift the thousands of you have given me.

The festival formally began today evening after a cow donation ceremony . On the first day of the month long festival, the chariot was pulled towards Ganabahal from Pulchowk, said the Administrative Chief of the Lalitpur Guthi Office Bhakta Raj Rai.