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Nepal building a highway to Everest

Excavators are clawing through sheer cliff faces, rocks tumble down to the Dudh Kosi below, and once in a while the sound of dynamite echoes in the gorge

Nepal’s population to cross 30 million

When Nepal conducted its first census in 1911, the country’s population was barely 5.6 million

In just two years, a Nepal peak becomes snowless

Mountaineers, scientists, climate researchers, and local shepherds are all flabbergasted by a 7,000m high mountain in remote far western Nepal which seems to have lost almost all snow in the past two years

2,736 new cases recorded as Nepal’s COVID-19 tally inches closer to 200,000

Nepal on Tuesday reported 2,736 new cases of coronavirus infection from across the country. With this, the nationwide infection count has advanced to 199,760

Nepal forms committee to procure COVID vaccine

The Nepal cabinet has formed a secretary-level committee comprising officials from the foreign ministry, finance ministry, and the home ministry for the procurement of COVID vaccine, reported The Himalayan Times

Majority of Nepal's ruling party members likely to call NCP Secretariat meet

Five members of the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Secretariat who had given Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli till today to call the Secretariat meeting will devise a new strategy as the PM did not call the meeting

Nepal government asked to stick to ‘Federal Democratic Republic’

The State Affairs and Good Governance Committee of the Parliament has directed the government not to implement the decision to remove the phrase ‘Federal Democratic Republic’ used ahead ‘of Nepal’ for correspondence and speeches

Kathmandu Metropolitan City lacks seriousness in containing virus spread, Health Ministry

Agencies under the Ministry of Health and Population always have the same complaint against the Kathmandu Metropolitan City: it is not supportive of their health programmes

It is Federal Democratic Republic Nepal, not just Nepal, parliamentary committee says

Parliamentary State Affairs and Good Governance Committee has directed the government not to implement its decision to write Nepal as the country's official name instead of Federal Democratic Republic, Nepal

Women account for 33% of Nepal's COVID-19 infections

Nepal has confirmed 2,817 new cases of COVID-19 and of them 1,166 are females and 1,651 are males

PM Oli seeks senior leader’s help to resolve crisis in Nepal's ruling party

A day after five members of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) Secretariat upped the ante against Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli by making a formal demand for calling party Secretariat meeting, the PM called senior leader Madhav Kumar Nepal at his residence in Baluwatar to discuss political crisis in the party

Denied citizenship, stateless Nepal residents recount tales of woe

More than five years after the promulgation of Nepal’s constitution, Nepali women are unable to pass their nationality to their children, rendering a large number of those residing in Nepal stateless, affecting their chances of finding jobs, pursuing higher studies, and even getting married

Nepal PM Oli’s rivals write seeking party secretariat meeting

Co-chairperson of the ruling Nepal Communist Party Pushpa Kamal Dahal and four other members of the party Secretariat Jhalanath Khanal, Madhav Kumar Nepal, Bamdev Gautam and Narayan Kaji Shrestha today wrote to the other Co-chair of the party and Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli seeking consent for a secretariat meeting to discuss the COVID-19 crisis and implementation of the party’s Standing Committee decisions

30 sting ops In six Months by anti-corruption authority in Nepal

The Commission for Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has carried out 30 sting operation in the current fiscal year

Nepali amateur astronomers try to carve their space In history

The prospect of discovering a celestial object like an asteroid is sure enough to ignite wonder among astronomy enthusiasts, including young school-going children