KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal is urging climbers on Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, to help remove garbage from a camp abandoned two years ago after an earthquake triggered avalanches killing 18 people, as officials prepare […]
Washington: US universities have registered a hefty drop in the number of applications from Indian students amid a spate of hate crimes and fear about potential changes to visa policies by the Trump administration, found […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal will hold its first local elections in two decades in May, the government has announced, a key moment in the country’s fraught transition to democracy. The impoverished Himalayan nation emerged from a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): The government on Feb 22 approved a 900 MW hydro power project to be set up in Sankhuwasabha district of Nepal at a cost of Rs 5,723.72 crore. The decision to approve […]
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 (TIP): Nepal will allow its nationals to go to war-torn Afghanistan for work, a labour ministry official said on Oct 27, ending an almost four-month ban imposed after 13 Nepali security guards were killed […]
KATHMANDU (TIP): Nepal will allow its nationals to go to war-torn Afghanistan for work, a labour ministry official said on October 20, ending an almost four-month ban imposed after 13 Nepali security guards were killed […]
NEW DELHI/KATHMANDU (TIP): India is likely to offer Nepal’s new prime minister help building an east-west railway line and better access to its ports on his first visit this week, as it tries to regain […]
Uttarakhand is one of the most beautiful northern states of India located on the southern slope of the Himalayan range. Mighty Himalayan peaks and glaciers are on its north where it borders Tibet. Nepal is […]
STAMFORD, CT (TIP): AmeriCares is deploying medical teams to Assam and Bihar, where relentless flooding has killed more than 90 people and forced nearly 1 million into relief camps. The first teams, organized by the […]
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 […]
RIO DE JANEIRO (TIP):Two of India’s 2016 Olympians, gymnast Dipa Karmakar+ and shooter Jitu Rai, have been recommended for this year’s Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India’s highest honour in sports. The Khel Ratna is […]
NEW YORK (TIP): As India is emerging as an economic power on the world stage, there is another contrarian reality by its side which is quite unsettling. Even in this technologically advance new millennium, there […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): Five Nepalese guards, injured in a suicide attack in Kabul two days ago, are under treatment at the city-based Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, hospital authorities confirmed on June 23. “We have received five […]
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, NEPAL (TIP): A general strike called by a small communist party demanding that the government release its supporters detained after previous protests has shut down schools, markets and transportation in Nepal. Police says 28 […]
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 […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): BJP and Congress MPs had an angry exchange over Nepal on May 11 after BJP member Nishikant Dubey mounted a sharp attack on the country in the Lok Sabha. Dubey said Nepal, […]
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 […]
BEIJING (TIP): China is looking at its recent deal on cross-border railway with Nepal as a starting point to tap the vast Indian market in future. It plans to extend the railway line from the […]
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. […]
POKHARA (TIP): External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj left Pokharan on Friday after attending the SAARC ministerial meeting in Nepal. Swaraj also held the first bilateral meet with her Pakistani counterpart after the Pathankot terror attack. […]
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