The Newa community of Nepal's Kathmandu valley, from Wednesday, welcomed the festive season by burning the effigy of demon ...

Newly returned from a study abroad trip to Nepal, an Honors College student writes about her experience and encourages fellow ...

Nepal is set to host a film festival dedicated exclusively to horror, fantasy, and folklore genres for the first time. The ...

The April 2015 earthquake severely damaged the unique cultural treasures of the Kathmandu Valley. Reconstruction of the ...

Getting Around. Though Kathmandu has a bus system, taxis are plentiful, cheap and far more useful for travelers.(Even most longtime expats rely entirely on taxis.) Drivers rarely use the meter, so ...

The Embassy of Pakistan in Kathmandu in collaboration with Sahitya Academy organized a literary event – poetry symposium, ...

The Kathmandu Guest House, where I stayed, has a long and storied history. The Beatles stayed here, as did Jimmy Carter. Peter Matthiessen, who wrote The Snow Leopard , about his own spiritual ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal—The plane circled Kathmandu for almost two hours. We turned right, then right, then right again. Every other turn, I could see the Himalayas in the distance; the sun set midway ...

Kathmandu is one of the world’s wettest capitals. During the annual monsoon, rivulets of water run down the streets and into the swollen Bagmati River. In the rainy season, ...

In Kathmandu, residents face the dual challenges of freshwater aquifers running dry, and increasingly unpredictable monsoons causing flash floods. The combination of climate change and a rapidly ...

The Kathmandu Valley has been clogged up with air pollution for some days. People here are desperately waiting for the exit of the nasty smog. The valley dwellers have no solution either in hand ...

KATHMANDU, July 24 (Reuters) - A small passenger plane belonging to Nepal's Saurya Airlines crashed and caught fire while taking off from the capital Kathmandu on Wednesday, killing 18 people on ...