More on the One Girl initiative

" As many as 20,000 Nepalese girls are trafficked to India every year, according to Siddharth Kara’s 2008 book, “Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery.” They’re taken across the border,...

Nepalese Sherpa climbs Everest for record 19th time

It is not once , not twice but nineteen times.A Napalese Sherpa climbed Highest peak of the world 19 times. He is on mission to clean the garbage dumped by the mountaineers.What anybody achieves by conquering the...

Nepal air crash:12 German tourist dead,Death toll 18

" Twelve German tourists were among 18 people killed when a passenger plane crashed in Nepal's Everest region. A total of 14 foreigners are believed to have died, airport officials said. Only one Nepalese...

Nepalese sue US company over Iraq

Close Relatives of killed Nepali workers have filed a case of human trafficking against American company KBR, formerly owned by former US vice president Dick Cheny. The workers were wrongly recruited on the promise of job in Jordan but posted at US air base in Iraq. ...

Nepalese police release officers

Protesting against the poor quality food and ill treatment policemen in Nepal have taken their own officers for few days but now they have been released after not getting any response from government."Seven senior policemen who were taken hostage by junior officers in Nepal...

Protests Against Fuel Prices in Nepal

Nepalese students blocked several streets in Katmandu and hurled stones at the chief justice's car to protest rising fuel prices. The students demanded the government to take action and immediately withdraw fuel...

Nepal's 'last king' to lose crown

Seven years after most of Nepal's royal family were massacred by a drunken prince, the country's Maoists look set to scrap the Himalayan monarchy, turning the page on 240 years of history. Current King Gyanendra...

Sherpa first to climb Everest from Nepal this season

Climbers have succeded in reaching to the peak of Mount Everest for this season. Total of 9 people from US, Canada & UK have reached the summit today morning. All expeditions from Tibet side is closed so...

An eloquent argument about the upcoming Olympics in Beijing

"An eloquent argument about the upcoming Olympics in Beijing As nearly everyone who even occasionally watches the news, listens to the radio, or glances at a newspaper knows, there is quite a bit of...

German Television regrets error in covering Tibet riots

"The TV station admitted on its website that it "used a picture in a wrong context."In fact, the picture shows security forces in Nepal, a neighboring country of China, RTL said in an online statement."The image was taken on March 17 in the capital city of Kathmandu, where...

Dr.Amit Kumar of Kidney racket was arrested due to his close Nepali Aide Mani...

"Kathmandu (ABC Live): Indian Infamous Kidney racket head Dr. Amit was arrested from hotel in Sauraha district Chitwan by Nepalese Police yesterday evening."

Nepal king set to lose more palaces

Kathmandu (ANTARA News) - Embattled Nepalese King Gyanendra Sunday suffered a further setback after a government committee recommended nationalisation of more of his palaces and private forests. The official Nepal...

Ethnic Nepalese, Bhutanese refugees seek citizenship rights in Bhutan

I have reported several times (see the articles here and here) on the burgeoning refugee crisis in Nepal, where more than 100,000 Bhutanese of Nepali origin have been living in squalid refugee camps since the early 1990's. Now, it seems the few ethnic Nepalis still living in...

Freak Snow Storm Hits Nepal, Dozens Feared Killed

A freak snow storm in Nepal seems to be somewhat of an oxymoron, but as reported below, it seems to have caught these unsuspecting individuals off gaurd. "Dozens of people were feared killed in remote parts of...

Desperate plight of Nepal 'slave girls'

This is a sad article about the near-slavery or, more appropriately, indentured servitude, that many Nepali girls find themselves sucked in to. The regions of remote Western Nepal - which I had the opportunity to...

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