RAK Airways, a national Airline of United Arab Emirates (UAE) is all set to re-launch the flights to Nepal from February 15. The airline is set to operate three flights a week to Kathmandu as the tourism industry attracts more visitors to Nepal. According to the airline, one way fares starts at AED 499 to [...]

Five members of a lesser-known Hindu extremist group have been arrested by Nepal police for their alleged involvement in a number of bomb blast cases in and outside the capital over the past few years. The National Defence Army is an underground outfit that demands re-declaration of Nepal as a Hindu Kingdom and reverse the [...]

Tourism entrepreneurs of Pokhara have demanded that the decision of imposing tourist tax to foreign visitors in Nepal be scrapped. The tourism entrepreneurs have also submitted a memorandum to the office of Pokhara Sub-Metropolis demanding for the cancellation of such tax on Friday. Sub-Metropolis office is all set to impose $10 per tourist from third [...]

A fire swept through a two-story private rehabilitation center for addicts in a poor part of Peru’s capital Saturday, killing 27 people and critically injuring five as firefighters punched holes through walls to rescue residents locked inside. The “Christ is Love” center for drug and alcohol addicts was unlicensed and overcrowded and its residents were [...]

A suicide bomber set off an explosives-packed car outside a Baghdad hospital on Friday, killing 28 people in the capital´s deadliest day in a month, amid a political crisis that has stoked tensions. The attack in a predominantly Shiite neighbourhood, which also left 50 people wounded, came days after Al-Qaeda warned it would continue targeting [...]

The Sripanchami festival, which is also known as Basanta Panchami, is being observed across the country by worshiping the goddess of learning, Saraswoti on Saturday. Litterateurs, artists, journalists, teachers and students worship goddess Saraswoti on this day with the belief that they would be blessed with skills and knowledge when the sun starts moving to [...]

A Gurkha soldier, serving with 1st Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, has been killed on Friday 27 January 2012 in the Khar Nikah area of Helmand province Afghanistan. British Embassy announces the death of Gurkha soldier. A British Army spokesman said that the soldier was “fatally wounded in an insurgent attack while on a foot patrol [...]

The Japanese government has extended financial assistance of 635,165 US dollars to the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) Japan. Japanese Ambassador to Nepal Mr. Kunio Takahashi and project manager of ADRA Japan Ms. Mai Oawa signed on the agreement amid a function on Friday at Embassy premises. It is said that the assistance will [...]

A boy looks out of a window near the Saraswati temple in Swyambhunath premises on Saturday. Devotees crowded the temple on the occasion of Saraswati Puja.