Nepal has banned solo expeditions on Mount Everest and other peaks over 8000m. Stricter guidelines now require one mountain ...

China has taken strong exception to a film made by a Kurseong-born director and a cast and crew largely drawn from Darjeeling ...

The Chinese authorities, as part of their suppression of Tibetans’ basic rights, have taken aim at privately run educational ...

Scientists have for the first time in 185 years confirmed the presence of the Asian small-clawed otter in Nepal, thrilling ...

Over a year after a GLOF ravaged parts of Sikkim and washed away the Teesta-III hydel project, a proposal to build a new ...

Nepal’s government faced major challenges conserving the fertile flood plains of the country’s south. The region is the ...

A raft of executive orders issued by President Donald Trump in his early days in office has put several programmes across ...

Ngima Nuru Sherpa is small in stature, but he stands tall in the annals of Mount Everest. The 5-foot-7, 150-pound native of ...

The Budget also allocated a meagre Rs 574.80 crore (Rs 572 crore in 2024-25) towards work related to the census, giving a ...

Foreign climbers who want to try reaching the top of the 29,032-foot-tall peak will face higher permit fees in Nepal starting ...