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The ceremony began with prayers in a temple by tens of thousands of Hindus before dawn Tuesday. Then it shifted to a nearby corral, where in the cold morning mist, scores of butchers wielding curved swords began slaughtering buffalo calves by hacking off their heads.
Tens of thousands of communist demonstrators blocked the government's headquarters in Nepal's capital for a second straight day Friday, crippling the central administration.
Tens of thousands of communist demonstrators blocked the streets leading to the government headquarters in Nepal's capital and scuffled with police Thursday in one of the biggest protests against the president and administration in months.
Nepal's Cabinet will hold a meeting on Mount Everest to highlight the threat from global warming, which is causing glaciers to melt in the Himalayas, an official said Monday.
The world's tiger population is declining fast despite efforts to save them, and new strategies are urgently needed to keep the species from dying out, international wildlife experts said Tuesday.
Now that he's all grown up, 18-year-old Khagendra Thapa Magar of Nepal wants the world to know just how tiny he is.
Landslides triggered by torrential rains have killed at least 34 people in various parts of western Nepal, government officials said Wednesday.
A church dormitory collapsed Wednesday in eastern Nepal after attendees at a Christian conference went to sleep on its roof, killing at least 24 people and injuring an additional 62, police and church officials said.
Nepal's Maoist-dominated government promised Saturday to establish a "disappearance commission" to investigate political killings that the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights says were perpetrated by communist insurgents fighting to overthrow the monarchy.
Three skydivers claim to have made the highest parachute landing ever at a drop zone high in the Himalayas of Nepal, officials said Wednesday.
Hundreds of supporters of Nepal's former communist rebels clashed with police Wednesday during an anti-government protest at a Katmandu university where the prime minister was attending a graduation ceremony.
A bus veered off a highway and plunged into a river in northeast Nepal on Thursday, killing at least 11 people and leaving about 20 missing and feared dead.
Police have arrested one of Nepal's most wanted men, the alleged leader of a shadowy militant group blamed in deadly attacks on a church and a mosque, the government said Monday.
Millions of people in Nepal face severe food shortages because global climate change has disrupted weather patterns and slashed crop yields in the Himalayan nation, an international aid agency warned Friday.
Flooding and landslides brought on by two days of heavy monsoon rains in Nepal have left 22 people dead and several more missing, officials said Tuesday.
Nepal's prime minister on Monday thanked "Absolutely Fabulous" actress Joanna Lumley for her outspoken campaign to give thousands of Gurkha war veterans and their families the right to settle in Britain.
Landslides triggered by monsoon rains swept through three villages in Nepal's mountainous west Thursday, burying homes and killing at least nine people, a ministry official said.
The former rebels pass their days on an old research farm now set behind a tall barbed-wire fence, a place of flimsy wooden buildings, weed-filled roads and laundry strung from the volleyball net.
The political turmoil that has roiled Nepal in recent weeks will not stop its peace process from moving forward, the country's prime minister said Saturday, adding that the former Maoist guerrillas still must prove that they are committed to negotiations.
A bomb exploded in a church in the Nepalese capital during Saturday morning Mass, killing two people and wounding 15, police said.
A Sherpa from Nepal who holds the world's record for scaling Mount Everest said Monday the planet's highest peak was littered with trash and warned that its glaciers were melting because of global warming.
Lawmakers elected a communist party leader as Nepal's new prime minister on Saturday in a move aimed at ending weeks of political turmoil.
Riot police beat back hundreds of women from Nepal's Maoist party who protested Thursday in front of the president's house to demand that he fire the country's army chief.
Nepal's prime minister resigned Monday amid a power struggle over his firing of the army chief, saying he was stepping down to "save the peace process" that brought the Himalayan nation out of a bloody decade-long civil war.
Nepal wants Indian prostitutesThis week the anonymous sex blogger Belle de Jour revealed her true identity as a scientist and claimed she enjoyed her work as a prostitute.
"Shangri-La" Caves Yield Treasures, SkeletonsA treasure trove of Tibetan art and manuscripts uncovered in "sky high" Himalayan caves could be linked to the storybook paradise of Shangri-La, says the team that made the discovery.
Alpinist Tomaz Humar Dies on Nepalese PeakThe year of 2009 will go down as one of the darkest in mountaineering history.
Himalayan Blunder: The Perils Of Denying Glacier Melting Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh loves to challenge the dominant opinion (except in the case of Genetically Modified crops).
A Former IG of Maharashtra Police Lays Bare a Massive Plot to Destabilize IndiaNEW DELHI: A new book curiously titled Who Killed Karkare? says a nationwide network of Hindutva terror that has its tentacles spread up to Nepal and Israel is out to destroy the India most Indians have known for ages and to remould it into some kind of Afghanistan under the Tali …
.Still Waiting for Justice --No End to Impunity in NepalThis 47-page report calls for the government to investigate and prosecute those responsible for crimes committed during Nepal's armed conflict.
Indian hegemony continues to harm relations with neighborsNobody can deny that today's India is a power. In recent years, Indians have become more narrow-minded and intolerable of outside criticism as nationalism sentiment rises, with some of them even turning to hegemony.
China opens a new front in KashmirBANGALORE - India and China appear to have opened a new front - Kashmir - in their ongoing war of words.
India's `hegemony' is a threat, says China dailyIndia's "hegemony" poses a threat to its neighbours, says a premier Chinese daily, citing India's "recent provocation on border issues with China" as proof.
World's smallest man reveals his 18th birthday wishThe world's smallest man, Khagendra Thapa Magar, has revealed his wish for his 18th birthday: to be officially recognised by the Guiness World Records and to find a wife.
Clifton Maloney, Congresswoman's Husband, Dies in Tibet The husband of Representative Carolyn B. Maloney of New York died after scaling a mountain peak during an expedition in Tibet, Ms. Maloney's office announced on Saturday.
India's Dubious Character in Mumbai InvestigationsIndia is not in a mood to let the Mumbai probe go in a smooth fashion. Earlier, on the request of Pakistan to provide necessary information regarding the incident, India has been sharing the information with Pakistan in bits and pieces.
Nepal hit by severe goat shortageThe authorities in Nepal have ordered officials to find more goats for ritual slaughter ahead of the country's biggest religious festival of the year.
Riyaz Bhatkal traced to Pak, his phone call matches voice sampleRiyaz Bhatkal traced to Pak, his phone call matches voice sample Sagnik Chowdhury in The Indian Express, Sept 15
Fatima Rizvi : The booming Indian Yellowcake market made news throughout the late 80s and the 90s, despite Media's 'mysterious mum' over recurring incidents of Nuclear-Chemical-Biological(NCB) material theft and smuggling within and across the Indian Ocean.
Time to look at your water footprint? Time to look at your water footprint? by Richard Welford rwelford@csr-asia.com
Pro-China Maoists attacked Indian priests?Even as the Nepalese government assures protection for Indian priests at Pashupatinath, there is a strong China connection emerging into the attack in Nepal.
Nepal`s ex-prince linked to Dawood's fake currency racketNew Delhi: Nepal's ex-prince Paras, son of the former Nepal king Gyanendra, has been linked to a fake currency racket run by India`s most wanted terrorist Dawood Ibrahim.
Heritage clauseWhen the heads of Indian diplomatic missions gather in New Delhi this week for an annual brainstorming and policy guidance, the history of India's external engagement is unlikely to be on the agenda.
BBC NEWS | Middle East | 'Racism' claims at Lebanon beach clubsRacism overall in Lebanon, not just at the beach clubs. New law maybe on the way to outlaw discrimination, we'll see. These maids and labourers need protection from abusive employers. Like at the end of the article says:
China Should Break India Into Smaller PiecesA Chinese strategist finds that there is no single united India and that the country is actually made up of several competing power centers that can be easily split apart. This will surely abort the American-British plans for turning India into their new slave-soldier in Asia.
China's India policy: Murder with borrowed knivesNEW DELHI: Fears that China could employ a strategy of "murdering with borrowed knives" against India does not seem totally unfounded. A leading Chinese think-tank , whose views count with the Beijing's Communist administration
Widows protest marriage incentiveKATHMANDU (Reuters) - About 200 women marched through the Nepali capital Monday to denounce a government scheme to pay cash incentives to men for marrying widows, witnesses said.
Nepal widows protest against incentive for marriageAbout 200 women marched through the Nepali capital Monday to denounce a government scheme to pay cash incentives to men for marrying widows, witnesses said.
Nepal villagers flock to worship malformed babyThousands of people have flocked to a remote Nepalese village 2,000 metres up in the Himalayas to worship a baby born with four arms and four legs, revering him as the reincarnation of a Hindu god.
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