Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has expressed hope that the new Constituent Assembly would be successful in drafting a new constitution on time, voicing his desire to visit Nepal after the formation of a new government in Kathmandu. PM Singh, during a meeting with visiting Foreign and Home Minister Madhav ...
Read More »Campaign to clean Trisuli begins
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 ...
Read More »7.44 million tourists could travel to Nepal
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, ...
Read More »Nepal among NYT’s ‘52 Places to Go in 2014’
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 ...
Read More »Nearly 7 lakh Indian tourists visited Nepal in 2012
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 ...
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