Nepal Travel News Archives

Fri, Oct 30, 2009, 07:10 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Oct 30, Lumbini, Nepal: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa, who is currently on a tour in Nepal visited Lumbini, the birthplace of Lord Buddha, Friday morning.

By Sudeshna Sarkar, Kathmandu, Oct 30 : Ahead of their announced blockade of government offices, the Kathmandu valley and Nepal's only international airport, the republic's former Maoist guerrillas Friday asked neighbour India not to intervene, saying it was an internal matter of Nepal.

KATHMANDU: Union Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma on Wednesday called on the Nepalese Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and discussed with him the current political situation as well as the peace process in the Himalayan Kingdom.

Wed, Oct 28, 2009, 10:08 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Oct 28, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa is to leave for Nepal tomorrow on a two-day official visit, the Presidential Media Unit said.

KATHMANDU: To avoid lengthy procurement process through overseas companies, the government has decided to buy 50,000 tons of chemical fertilizer from India.

A Nepal Army helicopter has air-lifted a woman suffering from post-delivery complications and her child from a remote village in Gorkha, Tuesday morning.

United Nations Mission in Nepal along with the representatives of five member countries of United Nations Security Council on Friday inspected a Nepal Army barrack and the arsenal there in the capital Kathmandu.

KATHMANDU: A brand new drop-in centre has been launched on the India-Nepal border, providing truck drivers with essential HIV/AIDS services.

IT'S BEEN a long time coming, but 20 youngsters from Ayrshire are all set for the trip of a lifetime.

Despite media reports about a new cold war growing between South Asian giants India and China over territory, Beijing says it is not at loggerheads with New Delhi but would seek better ties so that Asia can take the reins of world leadership from the US.

Standing at just 61 centimetres, Khagendra Thapa Magar, the world's shortest person, stepped into adulthood as he celebrated his 18th birthday in Nepal's tourist city of Pokhara.

Nepal Travel and Tourism meet 2009 was organised by Himalayas Nepal Publications and Embassy of Nepal at Nepal Embassy premises on Wednesday .

Guinness World Records finds Nepal's Khagendra Thapa Magar, who laid claim to title of world's smallest man record, is underage The 22-inch tall Nepali teenager, who laid claim to the title of world's smallest man this week, faces the heartbreaking news that he is to be denied the title for another year, at least after Guinness World Records ...

"Last year, there were 475 people. Most of them are above 65, including octogenarians.

Via RepAoblica : Swine flu appears among masses . Excerpt: H1N1 Influenza--otherwise known as swine flu--has now appeared among the masses, the Health Ministry said organizing a press conference Thursday.

No market, beach or tourist site in India is complete without the panipuri stand where the man behind it deftly deals out the puffed dough ball stuffed with a mouth-watering mixture of smashed potato and spices and dunked in tamarind water that is a hot favourite with the young and old alike.

KATHMANDU: In a breach of diplomatic norms, Nepala s former ruling party, the Maoists, Tuesday accused the Indian ambassador to Nepal, Rakesh Sood of spying on China, distorting his visit to a mountainous district bordering Tibet to inaugurate community welfare projects funded by the Indian government.

Tourists at Boudhanath stupa clicking photos - the number of tourists visiting Nepal has picked up this tourist season, Sunday, Oct 11 09.

The porters woke us up each day for 5am tea, with a hot water bowl to wash up before a breakfast of pancakes and eggs, and occasionally quiche.

While his party has kept parliament paralysed for nearly four months and refused to release child soldiers despite repeated urgings by the government and the international community, the chief of Nepal's former Maoist guerrillas, Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, will be embarking on a week-long China visit today to better ties.

It's a long way from Calgary to Hollywood and the New York Times bestseller list, but Calgarians Daniel Fraser and Scott Coates have made the trip -- via Asia.

A six-member European Union Regional Directors' Troika, headed by Klas Molin, Head of Department for Asia and the Pacific, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, currently holding the rotating EU-Presidency, is visiting Nepal on 8 and 9 October.

A Dutch airline will fly directly to Kathmandu from Netherlands from Wednesday, thus reconnecting Nepal with Europe via air after a gap of five years.

Nepali soldiers, who had served in the Gurkha Brigades of the British Army, had been fighting a legal battle for the right to make Britain their home after retirement.

AUTHORITIES must act to help smooth the immigration of ex-Gurkhas and their families to the News & Mail area in the future, a leading Gurkha organisation has said.

Asia Pacific News.Net Friday 2nd October, 2009 For the first time in its history, Nepal will form a Border Security Force to patrol its northernmost tip of the border it shares with Tibet in a bid to prevent anti-China activities by Tibetan dissidents, Nepal's Home Minister Bhim Rawal said.

Sixty-one years after he died, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's dream of self-reliance lives on in Nepal.