Singer Demi Lovato poses with the Favorite Pop Artist award at the 2012 People’s Choice Awards in Los Angeles January 14, 2012.

A boy heading towards pasture field taking a herd of goats at a remote village in Gorkha, Friday. Children of Marginalize community are deprived from the fundamental rights of education and health which are insured by interim constitution of Nepal.

Heavy snow fall blankets Rukkum district headquarter Mushikot, Most of the VDCs in the district are covered with snow and life has hardly been hit.

Prez Dr. Ram Baran Yadav handing over a national flag to the team lead by veteran mountaineer Appa Sherpa amid a programme in Sital Niwas, Thursday.

A rescue helicopter of Fistail Air has ‘crash-landed’ at Thorangphedi in Manang Thursday afternoon. The chopper piloted by Steven Bruce Bokan, an Australian national, slipped from the ground and its rear side slammed into the corner while landing at around 4:30 pm, it was learnt. There was no human casualty in the accident. The helicopter [...]

Three persons including a Major of the Nepal Army were killed and two others injured in a car crash at Jamune of Tanahun district, Thursday evening. The Ba.9 Cha 1685 car en route to Pokhara from Kathmandu lost balance and slapped into a wall, killing three persons on the spot. The deceased are Ashish Basnet [...]

The government is all set to launch the Visit Lumbini Year 2012 on January 14 in a bid to spread Gautam Buddha’s message of peace across the world and develop the Buddha’s birthplace as a peace city and a global Buddhist center. According to the Ministry of Federal Affairs, Constituent Assembly, Parliamentary Affairs and Culture, [...]

The introduction of the Home-stay action plan by the Government has been well received especially in the rural parts of the country, with possibilities of tourism. So far, a total of 64 institutions have already registered for running home-stay tourism in remote villages of Nepal. According to tourism experts, the home-stay tourism is helpful to support [...]

North Korea said Thursday the preserved body of Kim Jong-Il would go on permanent display in a Pyongyang palace also housing his father, and memorial towers would be built nationwide to honour the late leader. “Great leader Kim Jong-Il will be preserved to look the same as when he was alive, at Kumsusan Memorial Palace,” [...]

Appa Sherpa is in town preparing for the four-month 1,700 km east-west trek. “I came here to explore Nepal and tell the real stories of people suffering from climate change in one of the most vulnerable parts of the world,” media quoted as Appa saying. The 21-time Everest Summiter who lives in Utah, USA with [...]