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Nepal prime minister resigns after deadly protests
AFP, Published on 09/09/2025
» KATHMANDU - Nepal’s prime minister resigned on Tuesday, a day after one of the deadliest crackdowns on protesters in years saw at least 19 people killed.
Pandemic shuts down Everest as Nepal suspends permits
AFP, Published on 13/03/2020
» KATHMANDU - Nepal on Friday barred climbers from all mountains -- including Everest -- over the coronavirus pandemic, in a major blow to its tourism industry.
China-built airport in Nepal ‘littered with corruption’
The New York Times, Published on 19/04/2025
» A government inquiry into a new $216-million international airport in Nepal’s second-biggest city found that “irregularities and corruption” by officials and lawmakers allowed a Chinese state-owned contractor to ignore its obligations and charge for work it never completed.
Nepal investigates deadly violence in pro-monarchy rally
Reuters, Published on 29/03/2025
» KATHMANDU — Nepal's government is investigating deadly violence that occurred during a rally by the supporters of the former king seeking the restoration of constitutional monarchy, a minister said on Saturday.
Child 'love marriages' in Nepal blight young lives
AFP, Published on 16/01/2020
» SURKHET (NEPAL) - Teenager Asha Charti Karki told her parents she was going out to study, but instead she ran off to wed her boyfriend -- one of a growing number of Nepali teenagers who are marrying young by choice.
Nepal relaxes quarantine rules ahead of Everest season
AFP, Published on 26/03/2021
» KATHMANDU - Nepal has eased quarantine rules for visitors in an effort to attract more climbers to Mount Everest, officials said Friday, after the pandemic wiped out last year's season and devastated the tourism industry.
Ban on foreigners arriving from Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan
Online Reporters, Published on 10/05/2021
» Thailand has closed its border to foreign travellers arriving from three more countries in the Indian subcontinent on the back of the first confirmed cases of the Indian variant of Covid-19 in the country.
Floods, landslides kill 116 in India and Nepal
AFP, Published on 20/10/2021
» DEHRADUN, India: More than 100 people have died in several days of massive flooding and devastating landslides that swept away roads and houses in India and Nepal, officials said Wednesday, with scores more missing.
2 Thai female trekkers die in Nepal: report
Online Reporters, Published on 20/11/2022
» Two Thai women have reportedly died after suffering from illness while hiking in Nepal.
At least 67 killed in Nepal plane crash
AFP, Published on 15/01/2023
» At least 67 people were confirmed dead Sunday when a plane with 72 on board crashed in Nepal, police said, in the Himalayan country's deadliest aviation disaster in three decades.