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Hollywood actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Josh Brolin have arrived in Nepal to shoot a new film based on the Everest bestseller “Into Thin Air”, a government official said Monday. Brolin and Gyllenhaal, who are staying at a five-star hotel in Kathmandu, will play the lead roles in the film, named ...

A campaign to clean the Trisuli river was launched on Sunday, with  half-a-dozen organisations including Nepal Tourism Board (NTB) and Nepal Association of Rafting Agency, lending hands for the cause. The programme, coinciding with the World Water Day, was initiated by. Two hundred representatives volunteered in the campaign, collecting garbage ...

In Nepal, according to a study, tourist arrivals via air in Nepal in fiscal 2012-13 dropped a marginal 1.4 percent to 586,668, largely due to a significant dip in arrivals from a southern neighbor. Indian arrivals to Nepal via air transport dropped 15.1 percent in the last fiscal year. However, ...

Nepal has been named among the places to go in 2014 by The New York Times, one of the leading newspapers in the world. The New York Times’ “52 Places to Go in 2014” — a list of top 52 destinations from No 1 Cape Town all the way to ...

Unfazed by political uncertainty in Nepal, nearly 7 lakh Indians visited the country in 2012, constituting more than half the total number of foreign tourists. A total of 694,136 Indians visited Nepal in 2012 via air and land routes, according to the statistics released by country’s tourism authority. According to ...