China's Zhang Hong, 46, became Asia's first blind man, and the world's third, to scale the peak from the Nepal side. While, Tsang Yin-Hung, 45, a former teacher from Hong Kong, became the fastest woman to scale the peak. Check out what the record setters have to say after their achievement.
Nepal's President dissolved the House of Representatives on Saturday for the second time in five months and announced snap elections in November, rejecting both embattled Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and the Opposition alliance's claims to form a government.
After both Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and opposition leader Sher Bahadur declared to have majority signatures and staked claim over the new government, the President's office said that it will verify the signatures and will reach a conclusion soon.
The quake took place around 22:24 hours Nepal (Local time), 94 KM North West of Kathmandu, the EMSC tweeted.
K P Sharma Oli is set to be sworn in as Nepal’s Prime Minister for the third time on Friday.
KP Sharma Oli, in his capacity as leader of the largest political party in Nepal's Parliament, was reappointed as Prime Minister on Thursday after the Opposition parties, riddled by factionalism, failed to secure majority seats in the House to form a new government.
Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli lost a trust vote in the House of Representatives on Monday, in a fresh setback to the embattled premier seeking to tighten his grip on power after the CPN (Maoist Centre) led by Pushpakamal Dahal “Prachanda” withdrew support to his government.
Amid rising cases of coronavirus disease in the Himalayan Nation, Nepal Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has warned of possible lockdown in coming days.
A man-eating tiger that has attacked many people has been transferred from Bardiya National Park to the Central Zoo in Jawalakhel of Lalitpur District in Nepal.
Nepal and India have agreed to carry out a joint study on construction activities underway in and around the Mahakali River in Darchula district, Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali announced on Monday.
Bharat Biotech had applied for emergency use authorisation for its vaccine candidate, Covaxin, in Nepal on January 13. Covaxin demonstrated an interim vaccine efficacy of 81 per cent in the Phase 3 clinical trials India.
India has asked Nepal to remove encroachment from the 'no man's land' on the border between two countries in Tanakpur, Uttarakhand.
The reconstruction work of a dharmashala at Budhanilkantha began with Indian assistance in Kathmandu on Thursday, according to the Embassy of India in Nepal.
The Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu, which usually draws thousands of pilgrims and sadhus on Maha Shivaratri festival is seeing a dip in the number of visitors this year due to the Covid pandemic, according to authorities.
The CPN-UML and CPN (Maoist Centre) merged in May 2018 to form a unified Nepal Communist Party following victory of their alliance in the 2017 general elections.
A communist rebel group under the leadership of Netra Bikram Chand Biplav has entered into politics after inking a three-point peace deal with the government.
Addressing an event in his home district, Jhapa, Prime Minister Oli challenged the Prachanda-led faction to table a vote of no-confidence motion and endorse that, My Republica newspaper reported.
Nepal President Bidhya Devi Bhandari on Wednesday participated in "Kshama Puja" and administered the inauguration of the new 'Jalahari' at Pashupatinath Temple.
Nepal's Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated the dissolved House of Representatives, in a major setback to embattled Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli who was preparing for snap polls amidst a tussle for power with his rivals in the ruling communist party.
Leaked documents of correspondence between Nepal's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu show that Beijing had put pressure on the Himalayan country to accept its Covid vaccine without its efficiency and efficacy being established.
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