Occupy Wall street demonstrators clash with New York City Police inside Zuccotti Park as protests moved through the streets of lower Manhattan near the New York Stock Exchange during what organizers called a “Day of Action” in New York, November 18, 2011. REUTERS/Mike Segar

As per the seven-point deal between the political parties last month, the regrouping of the members of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has started in three of the seven main cantonment sites (MCS) from Friday. Survey officials accompanied by computer operators, who reached the cantonments on Thursday, started regrouping process in the MSC located in [...]

As many as 620 tourists, who were stranded at Tenjing Hillary Airport, Lukla, for the past one week due to unfavorable weather, have been rescued on Friday after partial improvement in weather conditions, state run news agency RSS, reported.   Tara, Agni, Sita and Nepal Air Airlines companies made 30 flights and rescued 450 tourists, [...]

Haji Phoolwati Khatun, the eldest person of Muslim community in Sunsari district, passed away at the age of 110 at her own residence at Madheli VDC-8, Wednesday morning.  According to RSS, Khatun was so old that she had given birth to a child even before an earthquake of 1990 BS. According to Haji Abdul Sakur, [...]

Thanks to the bad weather that hit the Khumbu valley for the second time in the last two weeks forcing over 1,100 tourists strand in Tenzing Hillary Airport and Phaplu Airport till Friday.     No flights arrived over last six days though the airlines companies should operate over 50 flights each day to theTenzingHillaryAirport, [...]

Poor, marginalised, illiterate girls and women have little access to resources and opportunities. Cultural and socioeconomic barriers to female education must be tackled to change this Nestled  (drew close) between the Asian economic giants China and India, Nepal shares with India a caste system in which discrimination is still a fact of everyday life. Its [...]

As scores of British Gurkha soldiers are made redundant by the British army and recruitment numbers fall, there is deep concern among Nepal’s mountain tribes that their proud 200-year tradition could be under threat. It is recruitment season in the Himalayan foothills, a time when recruiters for the British army, locally known as “Galla walla”, [...]

An Idaho man accused of firing an assault rifle at the White House believed he was Jesus and thought President Barack Obama was the Antichrist, according to court documents and those who knew him. At one point, he even suggested to an acquaintance the president was planning to implant computer tracking chips into children. Oscar [...]

Tourist posing for photo in snow-clad mountain of Chhekampar, Gorkha. More tourists have visited the region this year in compared to previous years.

Property details of Minister for Physical Planning and Works, Hridayesh Tripathi made public on on Thursday and it shows he has 194 tolas of gold, some gold rings and 32 kilograms of silver received as dowry, gifts from children and other sources. It further shows there is a house built on 11 kattha land in Guthiparsauni [...]