At least 27 people have been killed in floods in southern India's Kerala state after heavy rains caused rivers to overflow, cutting off towns and villages

The Nepali government is all set to sign a deal to procure 6 million Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines through a non-disclosure agreement, a media report said

At least four people died and over a dozen were injured in Nepal after clashes broke out between police and people during an anti-encroachment drive to clear a government-owned land, media reports say

The prolonged rainy season and landslides this year have damaged several roads and bridges in Nepal, with the estimated losses running over $25 million, recording an increase of almost 33 percent in comparison to the year

The Nepal government had last month issued a notification announcing the recruitment of overseas job vacancies in Israel for trained caregivers and other jobs

Nepal's trade deficit increased by 70.6 percent, touching around $1.1 billion, in the first month of the current fiscal year as imports surged to  $1.278 billion and remittances fell around 18 percent to $466 million, putting pressure on the country’s foreign exchange reserves

Nepali Parliament on Thursday passed the country’s annual budget which was approved hours later by President Bidya Devi Bhandari, effectively ending the government shutdown which lasted slightly over a week

Nepal has stopped all government spendings since Wednesday as the government failed to pass the budget amid a political row with the main opposition party seeking suspension of 14 of its lawmakers who switched the party

Almost two months after Sher Bahadur Deuba formed the government in Nepal with the support of a rainbow coalition of political parties, he is yet to expand his cabinet, drawing criticism from the public as he heads almost 17 out of the total 21 ministries

US President Joe Biden's Special Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, is to visit India next week to launch an initiative for mobilising funds for battling climate change ahead of the UN climate change conference next month, according to the State Department

Thousands of political workers of different parties protested in Kathmandu, Nepal on Thursday when US officials visited the capital to hold discussions for an aid program under which Nepal is scheduled to receive $500 million in grants

Almost six years have passed since Nepal constituted a commission to investigate the cases of people gone missing during the decade-long Maoist insurgency that raged from 1996 to 2006

At least nine people have died and many were reported missing in Nepal as landslides and floods caused by incessant rainfall in the last three days wretched havoc in several parts of the country, affecting over 90,000 people

Resource crunch amid the pandemic forced the Nepal government to look for measures to cut its ever-expanding social security expenses, which touched almost $1.9 billion --roughly 30 percent of the total revenues-- in the last fiscal

Nepal received around a record $8.08 billion in remittances--the highest so far--in the last fiscal (ended in mid-July), recording a 10 percent growth in comparison to the last despite the Covid-19 slowdown