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  • Nepali-Canadian first to climb Everest without prosthetic limbs

    In a bid to prove to the world that "disability was not inability", Sudharshan Gautam, a Nepali-Canadian citizen, became the first amputee to climb Mount Everest without the help of prosthetic limbs, officials said Monday. "We received information that Gautam, who has no hands, climbed Mount Everest," Dipendra Paudel, an official at Nepal's mountain department under the ministry of tourism and ...

  • Chinese man dies trying to climb Lhotse peak in Nepal

    A 58-year-old Chinese climber died Monday while attempting to climb the Lhotse peak, the world's fourth highest, officials said. Xiaoshi Li died in Sagarmatha region, after falling sick on his way to the 8,516 metre high Lhotse peak, Nivesh Karki, manager of the expedition organiser, Seven Summit Treks Pvt. Ltd., told Xinhua. The mountaineering section of Nepal's ministry of tourism said ...

  • Bangladeshi South Korean climbers die on Everest

    KATHMANDU (AFP) - A climber from Bangladesh and another from South Korea have died on Mount Everest as hundreds flock to the world's highest peak during good weather, Nepalese tourism officials said Tuesday."Both men died while descending from the summit on Monday," an official with the tourism ministry told AFP from Everest Base Camp.Sung Ho-Seo, 34, of South Korea was attempting ...

  • Actress Nisha Adhikari completes Everest ascent

    Nepali film actress Nisha Adhikari has completed her ascent on Everest on Tuesday morning. Adhikari, who has now become the first Nepali actress to climb Everest, achieved the fete at around 8 am this morning, said Nepal Tourism Board. Adhikari, who embarked on an expedition to Everest on April 7, arrived at base camp on April ...

  • Nepal’s first Forbes Dollar Billionaire to expand investments in Lanka

    Even before Forbes placed Binod Chaudhary in its 2013 Annual Global Rich List, his love affair with Sri Lanka had begun with a foray into Colombo in 2000, when he acquired a substantial stake in the Taj Lanka Hotels, Sri Lanka. This longstanding investor of Sri Lanka has been travelling to the country ever since and displayed tremendous market confidence, even during the long drawn conflict ...

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Supernova

It is always a bad sign when a studio writes off a movie as a financial loss long before it is released, which is exactly what happened with MGM's $65-million "Supernova," a half-baked science fiction rip-off that manages to be both excruciatingly simplistic and utterly incoherent at the same time. It is a movie that, at one time or another, was under the auspices of at least four different ... ...

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  • Nepal government investigating illegal Everest broadcast

    A British mountaineer's interview with the BBC on his smartphone from the top of Mount Everest has stirred controversy with theNepalese government calling the broadcast "illegal", officials said ...

  • Siblings from India and Pakistan reach Everest peak together

    lofty peak of Everest witnessed 'height' of Indo-Pak friendship on Sunday when two sets of siblings from both countries reached there almost ...

  • Nepal considers plan to expand fibre coverage

    Nepal's minister for information and communications Madhav Prasad Paudel has said the government is committed to improving its fibre-optic links in the country, specifically through the deployment of optical networks along highways and trunk roads. e-Kantipur notes that the state's backing of the plan comes at a time when its efforts to roll out the district optical fibre project are ...

  • Nepal takes issue with troubled BBC’s Everest video

    (21 mins ago) A British mountaineer's interview with the UK state broadcaster BBC on his smart phone from the top of Mount Everest has stirred controversy in Nepal where the government is calling the broadcast ';illegal'', officials said. Mountaineer Daniel Hughes went live on BBC via his smart phone from the 8,848-meter peak on Sunday morning. It was also seen on Asia ...

  • Nepal investigating Everest call

    A BRITISH mountaineer's interview with the BBC on his smartphone from the top of Mount Everest has stirred controversy with the Nepalese government calling the broadcast "illegal", officials said Monday. British mountaineer Daniel Hughes gave a live video interview to the BBC on his smartphone from the 8,848-metres (29,029-feet) peak on Sunday morning. "This is the world's ...

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