News and Updates

Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) has resumed a direct flight from Kathmandu to Taplejung after 25 years. Taplejung Airport in-charge Hemant Upreti informed that flight carrying nine passengers from Kathmandu and 17 passengers from Taplejung was operated on Thursday. The NAC will provide flight service every Thursday, informed the corporation. Earlier, ...

Last night ABC News’s Nightline featured the story of Sano Babu Sunuwar and Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC’S 2012 People’s Choice Adventurers of the Year. The two Nepali friends completed The Ultimate Descent by climbing Everest, paragliding down, and kayaking to the Indian Ocean. It was a source-to-sea expedition beyond ...

And what have you accomplished today? A former stray dog has pulled himself up by the bootstraps and created a better life for himself. A life that includes becoming the first dog ever to climb Mount Everest. Say hello to Rupee, the formerly homeless pup who was found starving in ...

 The 31st series of elephant polo which has been held at Chitwan-based Meghauli Airport for the past 30 years is going on in Bardia.  The internationally popular event is taking place under the aegis of Tiger Tops Hotel in Chitwan national park since 1982. Along with Nepal courtiers like Switzerland, Thailand, ...

Archaeologists have found evidence of Buddhist shrines in Lumbini’s pilgrimage centre dating to around 550 B.C., making them the oldest signs of Buddhist worship known so far. An international team led by Prof. Robin Coningham of the University of Durham (UK) and archaeologist Kosh Prasad Acharya, recently detected older wooden ...