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(RTTNews) - According to media reports, Rail India Technical and Economic Services or RITES Saturday said that it would begin the feasibility study of a 1,200 kilometer Mechi-Mahakali and 200 kilometer Kathmandu-Pokhara rail links in western Nepal from next week.
Humanitarian Worker Left Jugs of Water for Illegal Immigrants in Desert; Jury Convicted Him For Littering in Federal Refuge
The Himalayan glaciers are melting. On Friday, the Nepalese cabinet met at the Mt. Everest base camp to call attention to the problem - and to demand money from the world's rich countries.
Nepalese ministers equipped with oxygen tanks battled freezing temperatures to meet in the shadow of Mount Everest on Friday to highlight the impact of climate change on the Himalayas.
Bangkok - Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej left hospital Saturday for a brief but important public appearance to mark his 82nd birthday. Thousands of well-wishers shouted long live the king as King Bhumibol, the world's longest-reigning monarch, ...
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Nepal’s Cabinet will meet at the Mount Everest base camp this week to draw attention to the threat from climate change and the government’s efforts to protect the Himalayan environment.
Authorities say the clerk may have fled to his native Nepal to avoid prosecution.
Ken O'Connell is forever drawing -- a plaza, a rooftop, even pastries -- to record his travels.
Trekkers walk in the backdrop of the 8850 meters Mount Everest, white peak seen left, at Syangboche, a town 3900 meters above sea level, in Nepal, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. A group of Nepalese ministers reached the Mount Everest region Thursday for a Cabinet meeting being billed as the highest ever, a stunt meant to highlight the threat global warming poses to Himalayan glaciers. (AP Photo/Gemunu ...
For the first time, Webster MENC, Webster University's chapter of the National Association of Music Education, featured WU jazz students, faculty and alumni playing live jazz music for a cause.
Jay Cowan was a 19-year-old kid, fresh out of Chicago and looking for a job, when he discovered Lake Wohlford tucked away in the mountains above Escondido. The only thing available at the lake that year, 1974, was a part-time position working on the dock. Cowan took it.
GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Authorities in Texas said they have released a wanted poster of the suspected thief of a $1 million lottery ticket, but they fear he may have fled the country.
Nepalese politicians take part in a cabinet meeting on Kalapattar Plateau near Mount Everest on Friday at an altitude of...
Steve Wellman, 49, describes himself as "a surrealist suburbanite." A husband and a father of two teenage boys, he lives in a 1960s-era home near the Butte Country Club. In a well-lit back room, more than a dozen projects lie in various stages of completion.
Washington - US President Barack Obama is weighing the possibility of making a second trip to the climate change summit in Copenhagen this month, a senior aide said Friday. The White House was discussing whether Obama should return for the final days...
Stockholm - Climate change and illegal rainforest logging were highlighted Friday at an awards gala in the Swedish parliament for winners of the 2009 Right Livelihood Awards, often called the alternative Nobel Prize. We are facing a global climate d...
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