Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa and Sano Babu Sunuwar have been selected as one of the candidates for National Geographic’s People’s Choice Adventurer of the Year 2012 for their achievement in adventure sports.
As part of its ongoing drive to widen valley streets, Metropolitan Traffic Police Division (MTPD) has expanded major sections of three busy roads under PM Dr Baburam Bhattarai’s instructions to ease traffic jams in the capital.
The fifth edition of the biggest blues festival, The Himalayan Blues Festival 2011 concluded with a bang on November 12, Saturday.
A magnitude 5 earthquake hit western Nepal Sunday morning.
Arunima Lamsal has become first time mommy! The actress and husband Amrit Aryal welcomed a baby girl on Tuesday, 22nd Kartik at Thapathali’s Norvic Hospital at 7:45 PM. The newborn weighs 2.1kgs and both the mother and the child are said to be healthy.
Silver screen hero Rajesh Hamal finally got the clean chit from the Hanumandhoka Metropolitan Police Range. A woman, who identified herself as Balkumari Adhikari, also a traffic police constable in Chitwan, had claimed that the superstar married her and is father of her three children.
Landmark Worldwide (LMW), a South Korean company that carried out detailed feasibility study (DFS) for the second international airport in Nepal at Nijgadh in Bara district, has filed an application with the government to allow it to construct the much-talked airport.
The monthly tourist arrivals by air posted a record in October. According to Immigration Office, Tribhuwan International Airport (TIA), visitor arrivals in October touched a record 73,264 — an increment by 16.8 per cent compared to the same month last year — for the first time in the tourism history of Nepal. A total of 69,115 foreign tourists departed whereas 52,952 Nepalese departed from TIA in October but TIA recorded some 70,531 Nepalese arrivals.
Yeti Airlines is donating Rs 4 per flight ticket to Child Workers´ in Nepal (CWIN), United Mission to Nepal (UMN), Centre for Victims of Torture Nepal (CVICT) and Save the Children. The airlines handed over a cheque of Rs 210,141 each to these organizations which are working in the field of child rights, human rights, poverty alleviation, and empowerment among others.
Six persons were killed and more than a dozen others injured in a micro bus-passenger bus collision in Madhesa-4 of Sunsari district Monday morning.
A US lawmaker threatened to strip Nepal of its millions of dollars in US aid unless it permits refugees fleeing Chinese rule in Tibet to transit through the country, according to an AFP report. The warning comes few days after Nepal’s riot police arrested at least 35 Tibetan refugees from pro-Tibet demonstration in Jawalakhel, Lalitpur on Tuesday.
The impact of the much-talked-about Hello Sarkar public complaints hotline is being seen in one instance after another. Some 41 bus passengers in Itahari were able to recover Rs 6,150 fleeced from them by the bus owners on Saturday thanks to timely intervention by the Hello Sarkar team. The Hello Sarkar control room has been in operation following its inauguration by the prime minister on Thursday. The control room has been taking non-stop phone calls and there is a flood of complaints by email, fax and SMS also.
Nepal crashed out of the ongoing SAARC U-25 Twenty20 Cricket Tournament after losing its last league match against Pakistan by 77 runs in Maldives on Saturday.
Nearly 2000 people, including many foreign tourists, are stranded in the foothills of Mount Everest due to adverse weather conditions that have halted flights from Kathmandu. Surke is a two-hour walk below Lukla and stands at an altitude of 7,511ft.
National Sports Council (NSC) is all set to organize the Sixth National Games from February 26 to March 4, 2012 in Mahendranagar and Dhangadhi with the slogan “Sports for Health; Sports for Nation” featuring 31 games all together.
The local farmers started producing Gundruk as they get demand for it from the hotels in UK and European countries as well as Pokhara, and Kathmandu.
They produced Gundruk in the commercial way as the demand for the vegetable was high even from foreign countries.
Nepal won its second match of the SAARC U-25 Twenty20 Cricket Tournament against the Indian side Karnataka Institute of Cricket (KIC) by six wickets at the Ahmed Ali Didi grounds in Maldives on Thursday.
म जन्मदै उल्टो जन्मेको मान्छे अनी कसरी समाज सँग मिल्नु अनी कसरी दुनियाँ सँग घुल्नु म त उल्टो मान्छे कसरी सुल्टो हिड्नु (Poem by amricane)
Nepal faced 76-run defeat at the hands of Sri Lanka in the opening match of the SAARC U-25 T20 Cricket Tournament at Ahmed Ali Didi Stadium in the Maldives. Sri Lanka scored 240-4 in 20 overs choosing first batting, while Nepal was stopped to 164-9.
The founder of Resources Himalaya, Dr. Yonzon was seriously injured after being hit by a truck in front of the Controller of Examinations in Balkhu while cycling back home and died while undergoing treatment at Kathmandu Hospital in Teku the same evening.
