64 climbers including Saudi Arabian woman scale Mount Everest from Nepal

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Landmark Kathmandu Bookstore Gutted by Fire

By Friday afternoon all that remained of the Kathmandu landmark Pilgrims Book House was a scorched brick and cement shell with charred and sodden books covering the floor. Pilgrims was one of the world's great bookstores and probably the best in Asia. Specialists in Himalayan and South Asian books, they also carried a huge general selection and over 50,000 antiquarian titles and ...

Army clerk arrested for passing on classified data to ISI agent in Nepal

Police in Jaipur, Rajasthan, have confirmed the arrest of an army staffer for allegedly passing on classified information to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Additional Director General of Police (Intelligence) Rajasthan Dalpat Singh Dinkar said the accused person has been identified as Bidyut Kumar Sinha, adding that he was detained on May 14.Dinkar said Sinha aged 43, was ...

China Increases Investment in Himalayan Neighbor Nepal

KATHMANDU -- In recent years, Nepal has deepened its already strong ties with China - some say to counter its reliance on India for aid and investment. In a sprawling 132-bed hospital in Nepal’s capital, patients receive treatment for everything from blood disorders to heart disease - vital services in a country that the United Nations ranks 157th in the world for human development. ...

Nepals archaeologists discover Buddha relics during excavation

Nepal's archaeologists have discovered artifacts dating from the Buddha era from an excavation site at Devdaha of Rupandehi district, which is located at a distance of 20km from Buddha's birthplace Lumbini in western Nepal. A team of Nepal's Department of Archeology (DoA) started excavation at the Devdaha area some two years ago after archeological evidences suggested that it was ...