Due to recurring strikes, bands and road obstructions, domestic flights operating in national routes are having good times with more travelling via air route. Travel agencies said that people have been booking tickets a week in advance. Travellers who used to confirm their tickets only a day before the flight are now doing so a [...]

U.S. Ambassador to Nepal, Scott H. DeLisi has assured UCPN-Maoist that the U.S. government has initiated the process to delist Nepali Maoists from the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorist, Rastriya Samachar Samiti reported. According to State Department reports, Maoist party in Nepal is not included on the Foreign Terrorist Organization list, but remains a [...]

Condemning Tuesday’s agreement struck by major political parties on contentious issues of the new constitution, the hardline faction of the Unified CPN (Maoist) party led by Vice-chairman Mohan Baidya is planning to organise protest programmes until May 27 and split the party after that. The faction has decided to organise different protest programmes across the [...]

Five people were killed and one injured when a car skidded off the road and plunged into Trishuli river at Jogimara in Dhading Wednesday night. The car lost balance and skidded off the highway, plunging into the river some 150 meters down. Those killed in the accident have been identified as Krishna Dawadi, Sanjeev Dawadi, [...]

The Nepali embassy in Geneva held a special Nepal Promotional Programme in Rome, Italy. The function was organised in cooperation with the Non-Resident Nepali Association Italy and the Honorary Consul of Nepal in Rome, said the embassy, which is concurrently accredited to the Republic of Italy. A large gathering of Italian travel agents, tour operators, [...]

In 1921 Sam Wollaston‘s grandfather was a member of the first Everest expedition. Nine decades on Sam finds less tweed and more Gore-Tex, but the same beauty on a trek taking in new eco-friendly campsites. I have a nice black and white poster of Mount Everest on the wall at the top of the stairs [...]

Normal life has been crippled across the country on Thursday due to the general strike called by the United Struggle Committee to protest against ethnicity-based federalism. The group of various caste groups including Brahman Samaj, Chhetri Samaj, Thakuri Samaj, Dashnami Samaj, Dalit Janajagaran Sewa Sangh, Bibedh Mukti Pragatishil Samaj, Khas Chhetri Ekata Samaj and Federation [...]

The people, who had been agitating in the Far Western region demanding an ‘undivided Far West’, have called off postponement of the shutdown from Thursday onwards. The agitating deferred the 20-day protest after the major political parties assured them of ensuring an “undivided Far West” in the deal signed on Tuesday. “Leaders have assured us [...]

A campaign has been launched here for the conservation of fish in the local Rapti and Narayani rivers. According to the conservationists, the campaign has been started to save the rare Gharial crocodile found in the rivers. The Gharial species of crocodile is said to be on the verge of extinction due to the lack [...]

A rafting festival is to be held in theTrishuliRiveron May 19. Nepal Association of Rafting Agents (NARA) is going to organize the festival. According to the organizers, the event is being held with the objective of promotion, conservation and development of rafting adventure tourism. The event will last for three hours. Some 700 domestic and [...]