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Fourteen other people, including a former top bureaucrat in the Home Ministry and a former Bhutanese refugee leader, were sentenced to up to four years in jail, a court document showed. File | Photo Credit: Reuters “A court in Nepal jailed two former government Ministers after they were found guilty of forging documents to enable…
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A passenger bus carrying Indian pilgrims veered off the road and plunged down a slope in central Nepal, killing seven persons and injuring as many others, police said. The incident took place in Nepal’s Gandaki province on Saturday (March 14, 2026). A microbus carrying pilgrims was returning from Manakamana Temple when it plunged off the…
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Nepal’s air industry has boomed in recent years, carrying goods and people between hard-to-reach areas as well as foreign trekkers and climbers. But it has been plagued by poor safety due to insufficient training and maintenance — issues compounded by the mountainous republic’s treacherous geography. The European Union has banned all Nepali carriers from its…
Nepali climber Kami Rita Sherpa reached the top of Mount Everest for the 29th time on May 12, breaking his own record for the most summits of the world’s highest mountain. “Kami Rita reached the summit this morning. Now he has made a new record with 29 summits of Everest,” Mingma Sherpa of Seven Summit…
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Smoke rises from burning tires during a Hindu rally in Nepalgunj, about 400 kilometres west of the capital, Kathmandu, Nepal on October 3, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP Despite quickly escalating tensions between Hindus and Muslims, the night passed peacefully after a lockdown was imposed and security heightened in a city in southwest Nepal, officials…