Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nepal's HIV/AIDS policies and programs have failed to address the problems of women living with HIV/AIDS in the country, HIV-positive women with Shakti Milan Samaj -- a social organization working on behalf of women living with HIV/AIDS -- said during a press conference on Wednesday, the Rising Nepal reports.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 7 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,...
MSNBC.com: Travel News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Local officials say a Dutch tourist taking a picture of a river in western Nepal during a hike has fallen into a gorge and died.
Relief Web (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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...
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Two people were killed and 29 others injured in separate accidents in different parts of Nepal on Sunday, reported the local media house's website eKantipur. Two died and over 10 were injured when a passenger bus met withan accident near Kaluwapur in the Mahendranagar-Dhangadi Highway in Kailali district, situated some 470 km of western Nepal on Sunday. The bus packed with Nepalis returning home from...
Relief Web (Free subscription) | yesterday
Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
USA Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
Three skydivers made a record-breaking skydive on Sunday by jumping over the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, in Nepal. (Oct. 6)
Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Four American women from the corporate sector will be honored alongside activists from Madagascar, Mexico and Nepal on October 7, 2008 at Gotham Hall in New York
CLARE STREET (Free subscription) | yesterday
Although I have benefited a great deal from the 8-day tour in India as well as rendezvous on the sideline with old friends from Nepal, I could not make it to the monumental Taj Mahal and also legandary Ganges River as well as other famous places because of the lack of time. So, I am certainly looking forward to visiting India, including Tamil Nadu, again and again in future to gain deeper insights...
New Zealand Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Prime Minister Helen Clark, in her role as acting foreign minister, today announced $3.7 million in funding to help people in Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Africa, India and Nepal. The government's aid agency NZAID would contribute $1...
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nepali Prime Minister Prachanda has directed the government's talk team headed by Peace Minister Janardan Sharma to initiate the dialogue process with armed insurgent groups operating in southern Nepal's Terai region. The PM gave this direction during a meeting with Sharma here Sunday morning. Sharma informed the PM that preparations were underway to bring the armed groups to the negotiating table...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Thirty-five holidaymakers have been taken for a ride by a city-based travel agent, Chhabi Roy, whom they had hired for a puja trip to Nepal.
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...
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
