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Kalli Biswokarma was tortured by neighbours in her village in Nepal for two days and forced to eat human waste before she finally gave in and confessed to practising witchcraft.
Kathmandu, Feb 8 (PTI) At least two people including an Indian, have been injured during a bomb explosion in southern Nepal's Parsa district.
Kathmandu - Nepalese Vice President Parmananda Jha was reinstated to his post Sunday with a fresh oath of office, ending months of political controversy. Jha was suspended from the post by the country's Supreme Court last year, which ruled his oath i...
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Karin Landgren of Sweden as his Representative in Nepal and Head of the United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN).
In John Burdett's "The Godfather of Kathmandu," a Thai detective serves up street-level riffs on contemporary Asia.
Nepalese police said Monday they were hunting two men suspected of gunning down Jamim Shah, a prominent media tycoon who owned Nepal's first cable television company.
Q: What type of business do you operate - what do you sell, or what service do you provide? A: Restaurant & Bar. We serve Thai, Indian Nepalese & Tibetan food, all under same roof. Q: Where are you from, and why did you decide to open your business in Summit County? A: I am from Nepal. I decided to open a restaurant in Summit County because there are so many similarities to my homeland: everyone ...
After parents lose a child, they are caught in a tug-of-war between the grief they have and the gift they had. And, when possible, they redirect some of their grief into positive energy.
Brendan and Sandra Moran love the outdoors, traveling and physical challenges.They have hiked extensively during their time in Guatemala and Costa Rica. They’ve hiked in the Himalayas in Nepal and hiked a 10-day section of the Camino De Santiago in Spain.The couple has hiked in much of Europe and too many places in the United States to count. Any chance they get, they strap on a backpack and hit ...
Marianne Milks of Honesdale is organizing a soup luncheon, “Soup for Soup” this Friday, 12 to 1:30 p.m. at Central United Methodist Church, 11 St., Honesdale. Donations ($7) will help fund a soup distribution to Haitian earthquake victims, she is organizing. She is holding handcrafts from Nepal, which also will be sold for this project.
When Nadjib Sirat laces up his climbing boots to become the first Afghan to scale the world's highest mountain, he will be driven by passion, not by the politics of his blighted homeland.
As China prepares to usher in the Year of the Tiger next week, a massive publicity drive has begun in neighbouring India, where the big cat is the national animal, to save it from extinction.
KATMANDU, Nepal After years of civil war and upheaval, Nepal's fate now rests with a bickering group of politicians who have less than four months to remake the government, write a new constitution and integrate thousands of former Maoist insurgents into the army they battled for a decade. No one knows for sure what will happen if they fail. "There will be a vacuum, and a danger of relapsing ...
Nepal, a small country located between India and China, has sent a student to Missouri Southern for the first time this semester. Sushant Karki, freshman computer information science major, was born in the village of Kapil Vastu, the birthplace of Buddha.
COSTA MESA In a few months, mountain climber Bill Burke is hoping to embark on his next adventure – one that could top his own epic experience on Mount Everest. At 67, the Costa Mesa resident reached the apex of the mountain and became the oldest...
Nashville, TN/ New York, NY – Headgear, INC announced Tuesday it will donate 5,000 pairs of shoes and 100,000 shirts to Soles4Souls, the international charity dedicated to distributing new and gently worn shoes to those in need all over the world.
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