Miami Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
Identification of the badly charred bodies of 14 foreign tourists who died in a plane crash near Mount Everest has been delayed by a shortage of experts and lack of equipment, a Nepalese doctor said Friday.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Bibek Paudal discusses the controversy regarding whether the new Maoist Prime Minister observed Dashain festivities (15 days long national festival of Nepal) or not. He reminds: “Dashain is a Nepalese festival, not a Hindu festival. Calling Dashain anything other than a social-cultural festival is undermining the many unique Nepalese elements it symbolizes.”
Travelblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
i am sitting in the saturday cafe in kathmandu. norah jones is playing in the background and i am surrounded by handmade clothes and shelves filled with books in a language i can read there are quotes painted on the wall by mark twain and thomas edison. it's hard to believe i'm in nepal. i just ordered some tomato lentil soup and a grilled cheese sandwich so i will type as i wait for my food to
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Kathmandu - A three-member German expert team Thursday began examination of the bodies of 18 people who were killed in air crash in northern Nepal, officials said. The forensic experts examined six bodies just hours after arriving in Kathmandu from G...
CNN (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
A team of German forensic experts has arrived in Nepal to identify the badly charred bodies of tourists who were among the dead in a plane crash near Mount Everest.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
KATHMANDU (Reuters) - About 5,000 people lined up in front of the private home of Nepal's ousted King Gyanendra on Thursday to seek his blessings on an important Hindu festival, his first as a commoner.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Kathmandu - A German forensic team was expected to arrive in Kathmandu to identify the victims of a fatal air crash in north-eastern Nepal that killed 18 people, Nepalese officials said Thursday. The victims of Wednesday's crash at Lukla airport, abo...
Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
From human to holy and back again. The last Hindu monarchy in the world is no more. Does the centuries old practice of Kumari have a place in the new democratic republic of Nepal and does the tradition violate the rights of the young girls chosen to receive the goddess?
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Kathmandu, Oct. 8 (Reuters): A private plane crashed in the remote mountains of northeast Nepal today, killing at least 18 people, mostly foreigners, officials said. Twelve Germans and two Australians were among the dead.
Soc 202 - Current Events (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Danielle Plesser SOC202 October 10, 4:53 PM Covering a wide region and aiming to offer education to women from remote communities: “The inaugural class of the Access Academy began classes in Chittagong in April 2008, with 130 talented young women from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.” When one completes the year of coursework at the Academy, one is admitted to the Asian...
NextBillion.net (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Guest blogger Jenara Nerenberg is the Founder of BOP Source . She is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard University and lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, where she is a Columnist for a national business magazine and a Consultant on new media marketing. Jenara was a Consultant to the Harvard Center for Health Communication and worked on cause-related marketing at the Harvard Business School and the Harvard...
Times of India (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bihar cabinet on Friday gave its nod to spend Rs 197 crore to reconstruct, strengthen and plug the breach in the embankment caused by by Kosi river on August 18 at Kusaha in Nepal which left more than 30 lakh people marooned in five districts.
Gadling (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Africa , India , Israel , Nepal , Sri Lanka , News , Travel Health How useful are those U.S. State Department travel warnings? If you read too many, you might become scared off of travel all together. As Carol Pucci points out in a recent Seattle Times article , politics and economics might play into U.S. State Department travel warnings and recommendations. This doesn't mean that, if...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
Twenty years ago, Oakland resident Jeff Greenwald lived in Kathmandu, where he wrote the award-winning travelog, "Shopping for Buddhas." This year he has returned to Nepal, and is recording what about Nepal has changed, and what (if anything) has stayed the...
The Inquisitr (Free subscription) | yesterday
A British angler investigating reports of a man eating fish has caught one in the wild. The goonch can grow to six foot (1.8m), and regularly weighs more than 160 pounds (70kg). The fish lives in the Great Kali River, between India and Nepal, a river system used to dispose of bodies per local Hindu funeral [...]
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infibeam | 08/20/2008
Diwali, or Deepavali, is the Hindu festival of lights. It is celebrated in a big way in India and Nepal, where it is called Tihar. The term Deepavali is of Sanskrit origin, which means an array of lamps. The word ‘deep’ means clay lamp and ‘avali’ means an array. The celebration of the festival signifies the victory of good over evil within oneself. The word Diwali is actually a corruption of the Sanskrit...
soulfullvibes | 07/05/2008
KATMANDU, Nepal - Confessed French serial killer Charles Sobhraj, who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison in Nepal, is engaged and plans to marry a woman 44 years younger than he is.
