Asia Nepal Around 400 kg of plastic ropes have been left on Everest area last climbing season, remaining there for decades; as there is no policy to bring them down, 50 tons of climbing ropes are estimated to lie buried under the snow, polluting mountains
Asia Nepal Pfizer-BioNTech's bivalent Covid-19 vaccine is expected to arrive this week; Ministry of Health says 76,5% of Nepalis have been fully vaccinated
Asia Nepal The process of promoting the Nawa Durga temple in Omsatiya Rural Municipality Constituency No. 4 in Rupandehi district as a peeth (pilgrimage destination) has begun
Asia Nepal Dozens of people have been killed after a Yeti Airlines plane from Kathmandu to the resort city of Pokhara with 72 people on board crashed near an airport in central Nepal
Asia Nepal Forecasters predict no rain until the end of January, with warm, dry westerly winds that will affect winter crop production