Nepal News

An avalanche swept the slopes of Mount Everest on Friday along a route used to ascend the world's highest peak, killing at least six Nepalese guides and leaving nine more missing, officials said.

The Kathmandu Metropolitan Police has detained a student leader of CPN-Maoist chaired by Mohan Baidya for resorting to bullying and vandalism in a college in the capital on Thursday.

NC president Sushil Koirala had emerged as the sole candidate for the prime minister's chair with the victory of his party.

UCPN once again stalled the parliamentary proceedings on Thursday, demanding the withdrawal of the murder charges leveled against its 13 cadres in connection with a conflict era case.

THE world's tallest mountain was no match for Cirencester's Des Moore who has returned from climbing the enormous Mount Everest.

BG Express Train No.15666 derailed at Ajuri station, near the Morigaon district of Assam state, about 80km away from Guwahati city, India, April 16, 2014.

The container arrived after being released from an Indian port on Monday, hours before the seder scheduled for up to 1,500 Jewish travelers was set to take place.

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Kathmandu, April 15: The International Finance Corporation has announced to provide financial assistance equivalent to Rs 600 billion for the development of Nepal's hydropower sector.

Emily Hall on one of her trips to Tanzania, where she taught music and English from May to June in both 2012 and last year.

Amid the government's campaign to improve cleanliness of Bagmati river, senior government officials took bath in the river at Gaurighat, Kathmandu on Monday.

In a bid to increase the availability of blood, the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital has established a Blood Bank in the capital on Tuesday.

Petroleum products are once again in shortage in the market for failure of payment of the dues by Nepal Oil Corporation to the Indian Oil Corporation .

The first day of the Boishakh month heralds the New Year on the Bengali calendar.

Now is the time for Nepal to prove itself a successful Asia-Pacific democracy which can also deliver on the people's economic aspirations.

In this 2005 file photo a policeman stands guard in front of a wall containing graffiti at a street in Kathmandu, Nepal.

On Tuesday, April 15, there will be a total lunar eclipse that will turn the moon a coppery red, NASA says.

Last week, Sushil Koirala from Nepali Congress officially became the 37th Prime Minister of Nepal backed by almost unanimous voting from the new CA-Parliament.

The general convention of BAN concluded on Sunday elected the new leadership unanimously.

Directed by Stephanie Spray and Pacho Velez but supervised by Lucien Castaing-Taylor , you might say that nothing happens in Manakamana .