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Kathmandu - A day-long general strike shut down much of Nepal Sunday, called by Maoists in response to the deaths of four supporters in clashes with police two days earlier. Demonstrators took to the streets of the capital and other towns nationwide,...
More than a billion people in Asia depend on Himalayan glaciers for water, but experts say they are melting at an alarming rate, threatening to bring drought to large swathes of the continent.
All over the countryside in central India, red monuments topped with hammer and sickle symbols announce that this is Maoist land. And these days, nobody could forget it.
Photos and story by Lars Howlett Hunkered down at 16,000 feet above sea level, in the modest village of Lobuche, trekkers on the KarmaQuest expedition to Nepal were quick to bed but slow to sleep. By 7 p.m., almost all were zipped up in their sleeping bags, with only one or two remaining members still huddling in the common room around the faint warmth of a stove burning yak dung.
New Delhi - At least two workers were killed and 10 were hospitalized following a suspected gas leak in a factory in India's central state of Madhya Pradesh, a news report said Sunday. The gas leak occurred at Raini Live, a medicine manufacturing pla...
Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Cabinet issued a declaration on climate change after an outdoor meeting in the shadow of Mount Everest, in a region where shrinking glaciers threaten rivers essential to development in China, India and Pakistan.
New Delhi - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Sunday left for a three-day visit to Russia during which the two countries are expected to sign a pact on civil nuclear cooperation and three defence accords. Singh said he and Russian President Dmitry...
Washington - The United States has not had any good intelligence on Osama bin Laden's whereabouts in years, Defence Secretary Robert Gates told ABC News' This Week programme to be broadcast later Sunday. Gates also couldn't confirm reports this week ...
Sydney - Conservative voters rallied behind new Liberal Party leader Tony Abbott in weekend by-elections in Australia. The victories in Sydney and Melbourne flashed a warning to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and his 2-year-ol...
Washington - The administration of US President Barack Obama has indicated that an Illinois prison will likely house terrorism suspects from the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba, the Washington Post reported Sunday. The proposal for the move t...
(Corrects date of Maldives meeting in seventh paragraph.) Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Cabinet met at the Mount Everest base camp to highlight how climate change is shrinking Himalayan glaciers and threatening rivers essential to agriculture and development in China, India and Pakistan.
SYANGBOCHE, Nepal — Nepal’s top politicians strapped on oxygen tanks today and held a Cabinet meeting amid Mount Everest’s frigid, thin air to highlight the danger global warming poses to glaciers, ahead of next week’s international climate change talks. The government billed the stunt as the world’s highest Cabinet meeting. The ministers, wearing yellow oxygen masks and purple sashes reading ...
The Giving Tree Band, along with Princeton's Jared Bartman, will play a benefit concert at the Prairie Arts Center at 7 p.m. today, Saturday, to benefit orphanages in Nepal. The Giving Tree Band, which plays rock music on acoustic instruments, is also a leader in sustainable energy, and recorded an album last year using only solar energy.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. Elinor Ostrom grew up on the fringes of Beverly Hills. Her childhood home on Wilshire Boulevard was technically in Los Angeles, but across the street, she could see from the dirt of her backyard garden how the other half lived.
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HOLDREGE — Joyce Hein’s pilgrimage to walk within the shadows of Mount Everest almost didn’t happen.
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