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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago
So for the past few days we've been having our orientation into Nepal. During this time we have been having cultural and history lessons but also have been taking walks around Kathmandu and seeing some of the major areas here. The first place we went to was a local market and then to Durbar square. Durbar square is an area with a few different temples and where many festivals will take place.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
Three Indian children were injured when a bomb left astray at a waste collection center went off on Monday morning in Nepal, Nepali national news agency RSS reported. The accident occurred in Biratnagar, some 240 km east of Nepali capital Kathmandu and close to Nepal-India border. The three children had gone to collect plastics from the waste collection center, when the bomb exploded on Monday morning,...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Kathmandu - Nepal's main living goddess known as Kumari of Kathmandu city is set to be replaced after the incumbent came of age, official reports said Monday. Matina Shakya, 3, will be installed as the Kumari of Kathmandu on Tuesday coinciding with t...
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Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Oct. 5 (UPI) -- A Brit, a New Zealander and a Canadian Sunday become the first to parachute over Mount Everest, authorities in Nepal say. Holly Budge of England, Wendy Smith of New Zealand and Neil Jones of Canada were in free-fall for nearly a half-minute over Everest before opening their parachutes and landing safely at 12,870 feet, The Sunday Telegraph reported. To be on top of...
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Well the last few days have been amazing. Kathmandu is an experience. I steped on a large rat today in the rain and in my flip flops... you can only imagine I havent been sick yet thank god and neither has stu long may our good health continue. We went out on the piss last night and had a whale of a time. Yesterday we went to see the ghats where they burn the bodies and put it in the river. There
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Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Three skydivers made the first ever parachute jump over Mount Everest on Sunday, organisers and participants said, culminating years of preparation.
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Three skydivers made the first ever parachute jump over Mount Everest on Sunday, organizers and participants said, culminating years of preparation.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Kathmandu - At least six people were injured when a powerful explosion ripped through a mosque in south-eastern Nepal, media reports said Sunday. The blast targeted the mosque at Hattimuda village in Morang district, about 400 kilometres south-east o...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Kathmandu - A Dutch tourist died after falling several metres down a narrow ravine in western Nepal, media reports said Sunday. Peter Ross, 49, fell near the western town of Pokhara, about 200 kilometres west of Kathmandu, Saturday afternoon, Nepal S...
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THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
The Kathmandu Post By SUSHMA JOSHI The Patan Museum courtyard, was at first empty, then quickly full, by 5:10pm on Saturday evening. The event was a fundraising concert, and the musicians in questions were Kutumba and a sibling duo, Barta and Binod Gandharva. Binod is still in high school, and Barta is yet to go to college. The event was aimed to raise funds for their education. Kutumba is a
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THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
The Kathmandu Post Sushma Joshi Why did it take us so long to get here? I think, as I watch an actor cross the entire theatre of Gurukul on a rope suspended diagonally above our heads. Simultaneously, a screen in front of us displays a video projection of the raging Karnali river. The actor in question is in the play The Karnali Moves Southward (Karnali Dakshin Bagdo Chha), and as the audience
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Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
…. barely! I joked on my facebook status that it was going to take me 30 hours to travel from Kathmandu (Nepal) to Amritsar (Punjab, India) a few days ago. It actually took over 36 continuous hours… I feel bloodyt exhausted, but tomorrow I’m going to cross the border into Lahore. Wish me luck! Anyway, [...]
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Reuters (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's Maoist-led coalition government invited armed rebel groups in the country's southern plains for talks and named three government negotiators, a senior cabinet minister said Saturday.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Nepali Constituent Assembly (CA)Chairman Subas Nemwang said Friday that new constitution would be drafted right on time even though the last four months have passed without much action in this direction. Speaking at a program in the capital Kathmandu on Friday, Nemwang said the parties were very close to resolving their differences over the draft of the CA regulations and that the constitution-making...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
KATHMANDU: The Maoist-led government has formally requested the various armed groups of the Terai region for talks. A Cabinet meeting on Friday decided to form a three-member committee to start the process of dialogue with the 14 armed ...
