カテゴリー: Nepal
At least 30 stranded or missing and hundreds injured after heaviest monsoon rains in two decadesMore than 200 people were killed in Nepal over the weekend in what experts described as some of the worst flash flooding to have hit the capital, Kathmandu,…
Flooding and landslides caused by continuous rainfall have killed at least 148 people in Nepal, officials have said. At least 50 others are missing. Rain began pouring down on Friday night and continued into Saturday, inundating low-lying neighbourhood…
Officials expect death toll to rise as flood waters inundate Kathmandu after highest rainfall since 1970Flooding and landslides caused by continuous rainfall have killed at least 101 people in Nepal while 64 people are missing, officials have said.
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After Nepal’s bitter conflict ended in 2006, Khadka hoped to make a difference in parliament. A new documentary charts the disappointment and the passion of one of the most outspoken advocates for the country’s forgotten women“Where is your brother?” t…
Documentary expertly follows the only woman to have climbed the mountain 10 times through spectacular scenery and a traumatic personal lifeThis portrait of title subject Lhakpa Sherpa, the only woman to have summited Mount Everest 10 times, is so dense…
The pilot is the sole survivor after a plane carrying 19 people skidded off the runway and caught fire in Nepal. The Saurya Airlines plane was en route to Pokhara for technical maintenance. Footage of Tribhuvan airport in Kathmandu shows thick smoke bi…
For generations the Gurung community in Taap, about 175km (110 miles) west of the capital, Kathmandu, and other villages in the districts of Lamjung and Kaski, have scoured the steep Himalayan cliffs for honey. The villagers say the proceeds, split amo…
A hundred years ago, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine set off to conquer the summit. Their bodies were found in 1999, but now their remains have vanished. Who moved them?“It will be a great adventure,” George Mallory wrote to his mother before leaving …
Dan Paterson and Pastenji Sherpa went missing during descent after landslide of snow and ice on mountainA British man and his Nepali guide are believed to be dead after reaching the summit of Mount Everest on Tuesday, a guiding company said.Dan Paterso…
For the first time Ukraine had the right conditions to make reparations to those subjected to crimes such as rape and sexual slavery. What would it take to replicate this globally?Across the world, women and girls continue to be plagued by gross human …
Documentary reveals the cost to Nepalese villagers of harvesting a supposed aphrodisiac that sells for more than gold in ChinaEvery year, thousands of Nepalese villagers make their way to the Himalayan foothills in search of a fungus called yarsagumba….
This veg-topped pancake is a Kathmandu favourite – and carrot pudding with cardamom offers a cuddle in a bowlAlongside “Namaste”, “Have you eaten yet?” is a common greeting in Nepal. For millennia the land where Buddha was born has been home to a multi…
Authorities are now mandating that climbers remove their waste from the mountain using biodegradable bagsIt’s one of the more unedifying challenges involved in scaling to the highest point on Earth – how best to relieve oneself in the freezing, inhospi…
Thousands of young Indian and Nepali men are being killed on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine. Their families want answers. Hannah Ellis-Petersen reports from DelhiHemul Mangakia grew up in Surat, a city in the Indian state of Gujarat. At 23 he was…
Signing up for jobs in Russia, Germany or Dubai, young men have been ‘made to join the Russian military’, their families sayWhen Hemil Mangukiya left his small village in the Indian state of Gujarat last December, he told his family he was off to Russi…