KATHMANDU (TIP): Normal life has been affected in Nepal as a Maoist faction imposed a nationwide strike to pressurise the government to ensure food security and lower the prices of essential goods, with police arresting […]

KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal has successfully drained part of a giant glacial lake near Mount Everest, averting risk of a disastrous flood that could have threatened thousands of lives, officials said on Nov 1. Scientists say […]

KATHMANDU, NEPAL: An overcrowded bus veered off a mountain highway in Nepal on Monday, killing at least 33 people and injuring 28 others in one of the country’s deadliest bus crashes in recent years. Injured […]

LONDON (TIP): A nearly 10-kilometre wide crater on Mars has been named after one of the villages worst hit by the devastating earthquakes in Nepal last year. The International Astronomical Union has named the crater after […]

KATHMANDU/NEW DELHI (TIP): On his way down from the top of Mount Everest, Indian mountaineer Nava Kumar Phukon saw the woman sway from side to side – a classic sign of severe mountain sickness – […]

KATHMANDU (TIP): Nine Sherpa ‘icefall doctors’, who risked their lives to fix ropes on the Mount Everest after last year’s devastating earthquakes, will be honoured by Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli on May 29 […]

KATHMANDU (TIP): Sushila Karki became the first female acting Chief Justice of Nepal‘s Supreme Court on April 13, ending the male domination of top posts in the judiciary. The Himalayan nation, though still a deeply […]

KATHMANDU (TIP): The Nepal army chief, General Rajendra Chhetri left on a week-long visit of China on Sunday, the day Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli returns from his official tour of the neighbouring country. This […]

BEIJING (TIP): Nepal can be a bridge between China and India, President Xi Jinping said and asserted that it is in the common interest of the “two big neighbours” that Nepal enjoys stability and development. […]

KATHMANDU (TIP): In an effort to address Nepal‘s post-earthquake housing crisis, a new initiative is underway to harness the Himalayan country’s abundant bamboo resource to rebuild its devastated communities and promote sustainable livelihoods. On April […]

KATHMANDU (TIP): Emergency workers have found the bodies of 19 people killed when their plane crashed into a mountainside in western Nepal with the loss of all 23 passengers and crew, police said on Feb […]