Nepal will increase the permit fees for climbing Mount Everest by more than 35%, making the world’s tallest peak more expensive for mountaineers for the first time in nearly a decade, officials ...

Since then, there has not been a drop of rain. A prolonged winter drought in central and eastern Nepal has sparked off an early start to the annual wildfire season, with multiple fires reported across ...

The Great Eastern Life Assurance Company has priced US$500 million fixed rate perpetual capital securities, first callable in 2032, to be issued on or about Jan 22. The securities will be under the ...

“North Korea on Tuesday (January 14, 2025) test-fired at least one unidentified projectile toward its eastern waters,” South Korea’s military said, as it continued its weapons demonstrations ...

The much-anticipated Kho Kho World Cup 2025 is here, as the Indian men’s team is all set to take on Nepal in the curtain-raiser of the inaugural Kho Kho World Cup at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in ...

Russia claims it has captured two villages in eastern Ukraine where its forces have been steadily advancing for months, as Ukraine’s president urged allies to deliver all the weapons they have ...

CLIFTON PARK ‒ Fox Lane senior Alex Berisha did it. Berisha won the coveted Eastern States Classic wrestling championship at 215 pounds on Saturday, winning an 8-1 decision over Newburgh's ...

A young non-resident Newa person in Dallas emails a New York Times article to his grandfather in Nepal who cannot read English. Grandad copies the English text, pastes it into Google Translate to read ...

BAGHDAD, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Four members of the Islamic State, including two senior leaders, were killed in an airstrike carried out by Iraqi aircraft in the Hamrin Mountains in eastern Iraq ...

a key Russian target in its advance through Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region. Ukraine's military made no mention of the village in its latest account of front-line activity, but said Russia had ...

A set of 16th-century royal burial regalia concealed in a niche under a staircase for nearly a century has been recovered from the Vilnius Cathedral in Lithuania. The gold crowns, rings and other ...

Sunil Sharma/EPA, via Shutterstock “Based on the magnitude of the earthquake, there could be some damage in mountains of eastern Nepal,” said Lok Bijaya Adhikari, a senior seismologist at ...