Kathmandu: The altitude of the Kathmandu Valley has elevated by 80 cm following the April 25 earthquake, authorities said on Thursday."The altitude of the valley increased by 80 cm as the Indian tectonic plate moved
Kathmandu: The death toll in Nepal's killer earthquake has risen to 7,759, the government announced on Thursday.A home ministry statement put the number of injured in the April 25 quake at 16,432.The temblor measured 7.9
Kathmandu: Nepal today mounted post-quake renovation works as it declared the Rastrapati Bhawan and thousands of buildings and homes unsafe for use after the devastating temblor that killed at least 7,652 people. Eighty personnel of
Kathmandu: NDRF today began withdrawal of its men from quake-hit Nepal after the country asked foreign rescuers to end their humanitarian efforts. “We have begun a phased withdrawal of our units after Nepal made a
Kathmandu: Nepal's devastating earthquake that has claimed nearly 7,300 lives so far is likely to hit the 10 billion-rupee tourism industry - the country's main forex earner - hard, losing as many as two lakh
Kathmandu, Nepal: Runway damage forced Nepalese authorities to close the main airport Sunday to large aircraft delivering aid to millions of people following the massive earthquake, but U.N. officials said the overall logistics situation was
Kathmandu: Fresh tremors rocked parts of Nepal today, triggering landslides as the death toll in last Saturday's devastating earthquake neared 7,000 and protests mounted over relief not reaching several affected areas. A 5.1-magnitude aftershock shook
Kathmandu: A 5.1-magnitude earthquake on Saturday struck Nepal at 11.30 a.m. with its epicentre at Barpark in Gorkha district, seismologist Mukunda Bhattarai from the National Seismology Centre (NSC) said.This is the third quake with its
Kathmandu: Social networking website Facebook has raised funds over $10 million within two days to support earthquake-torn Nepal.The Himalayan nation was rattled by a powerful earthquake measuring 7.9 on Richter Scale on April 25 which
Kathmandu: Though thousands of residents of the Nepali capital living in tents since a devastating quake jolted the country last week, have started to return to their houses, the fear of the temblor's return is
Kathmandu: A week after a massive earthquake hit Nepal, Nepal's government ruled out the possibility of finding more survivors buried in the rubble."It has already been one week since the disaster. We are trying our
Kathmandu: Nepal's government renewed its appeal to international donors to send tents, tarpaulins and basic food supplies in the wake of last weekend's devastating earthquake, saying some of the items being sent are of little
Kathmandu: Around 1.4 lakh buildings have been completely destroyed in Nepal due to the powerful temblor that flattened houses and uprooted electric poles and trees besides killing over 6,300 people.The 7.9-magnitude Saturday earthquake, the country's
The 7.9-magnitude earthquake that took the lives of over 6,000 people could only be described as a never ending 'nightmare.'During this disaster the country witnessed many of its cultural heritages turning into rubbles and losing
1. Foreign Secretary to visit NepalForeign Secretary S. Jaishankar will visit quake-hit Kathmandu today to take stock of the situation. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval would also be accompanying the Foreign Secretary during his visit
Kathmandu: Miraculous pullouts of a teenaged boy and a woman alive today lifted the gloom on a rainy day while three fresh aftershocks kept people on edge, even as Nepal's Army Chief feared that the
Kathmandu, Nepal: Despite a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake that triggered a landslide that killed 19 people at Everest base camp, government and trekking officials in Nepal said Thursday that expeditions to summit Mt. Everest may
New Delhi: A total of 8,450 tents were dispatched to Nepal on Thursday for people affected by the devastating earthquake, the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) said here.An NDRF statement said 750 tents received from
Kathmandu: Five days after a powerful earthquake jolted Nepal, its capital is slowly limping back to normalcy, with shops opening in several areas and electricity being restored partially in the quake-hit country. There is also
Kathmandu: A long-absent noise — cheers — rang out in Nepal 's capital Thursday as rescuers pulled a teenager alive from the earthquake rubble he had been trapped in for five days. The joy interrupted
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