Octogenarians race to be oldest Everest climber

Indian automotive giant, Tata Motors has announced the launch of tis Tata Indica Vista D90 model in the Nepalese market. The model, which is a very successful model in the Indian market, was launched on May 20, 2013 in Kathmandu by Gurinder Singh, ...

Nisha Adhikari, a young Nepalese actress successfully scaled Mt Everest today amid a controversy over her permit to climb the worlds highest peak.27-year-old Nisha became the first Nepali actress to reach the 8,848 metre-high summit, according to Tilak ...

The 25-year-old reached the 8,848-meter summit on Saturday with a party of foreign mountaineers and Nepalese guides. "She reached the peak with 12 other members of the expedition," according to an official with Nepal's tourism ministry. In a ...

Photo: Agencies Photo: Agencies KATHMANDU, May 16 (Xinhua) -- A plane of Nepal Airlines that flew from Nepal's second largest city Pokhara to Mustang skidded off the Jomsom airport and fell into the Kaligandaki river Thursday morning, injuring all ...

Manipur boy Nameirakpam Chingkheinganba, 16, has become the youngest Indian to scale the Mount Everest, the Nepal government declared on Sunday. RELATED IMPHAL: It is official. Manipur boy Nameirakpam Chingkheinganba, 16, has become the youngest ...

NEW DELHI: Wary of dissident Tibetan groups making Nepal a hub for their anti-China activities, Beijing appears to have taken to squeezing the Himalayan nation on the issue by using its development initiatives there as a counter-pressure tactic.

Police in Jaipur, Rajasthan, have confirmed the arrest of an army staffer for allegedly passing on classified information to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). Additional Director General of Police (Intelligence) Rajasthan Dalpat Singh ...

A woman in her 20s from Nepal was mauled to death by a leopard at Chopda village, about 17 kms from here, forest officials said here today.22-year-old Parvati was dragged from her courtyard by the big cat when she was breastfeeding her two-and-a-half-month ...

The annual rush to the hills by villagers keen to harvest a rare aphrodisiac fungus dubbed "Himalayan Viagra" has emptied rural schools in Nepal and forced them to shut, a local official said on Tuesday. Parents, students and even teachers have left ...