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    Nepal refuses Mount Everest clean-up amid pandemic calm

    12 Apr 2020

    Authorities last month suspended permits for all mountain expeditions over the coronavirus outbreak, forcing the Nepal army to cancel an ambitious clean-up on six mountains including Everest.

    Handmade with love: Nepali takes grandma's socks to the world

    30 Nov 2020

    Every winter, Lorina Sthapit and her cousins would warm their feet in woollen socks freshly knitted by their grandmother.

    Nearly 200 dead after heavy rain, landslides in India and Nepal; two girls washed away

    21 Oct 2021

    Experts say that they were victims of the ever-more unpredictable and extreme weather that has hit South Asia in recent years caused by climate change and exacerbated by deforestation, damming and excessive development.

    Landslides, floods kill 128 in India and Nepal

    20 Oct 2021

    The death toll from floods and landslides in India rose to 85 on Wednesday, officials said, while Nepal also reported 43 fatalities and 43 missing.

    Nepal orders the closure of schools due to air pollution

    30 Mar 2021

    With a population of 30 million people, Nepal is located in the Himalayas between China and India, two of the world's biggest polluters.

    World Bank rolls out coronavirus vaccine funds for Asian nations

    19 Mar 2021

    Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal are among Asia's poorest nations by GDP per capita. In total, the World Bank had provided $12 billion for developing countries to procure and distribute Covid-19 vaccines, tests and treatments.

    Nepal signs peace agreement with communist rebel group

    04 Mar 2021

    The government agreed to lift a ban on the group, release all their party members and supporters in jail and drop all legal cases against them, while the group agreed to give up all violence and resolve any issues through peaceful dialogue, the government said in a statement after peace talks.

    Nepal's top court removes most of cabinet in blow to caretaker PM

    23 Jun 2021

    "This is an interim order and the court will give its final verdict later,” court official Bhadrakali Pokharel told Reuters on Wednesday, a day after the decision by a two-judge bench.

    UAE extends suspension of flights from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal till July 7

    14 Jun 2021

    The decision also includes travellers who have visited the above-mentioned countries in the past 14 days.

    Chinese, Indian workers among 11 killed in Nepal floods

    18 Jun 2021

    The bodies of the three workers were recovered near the town of Melamchi in Sindhupalchowk district, northeast of Kathmandu, which was hit by flash floods on Wednesday that also forced many people from their homes, district administrators said in a statement.

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