Kathmandu (dpa) – Hundreds of devotees thronged the biggest open space of the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, on Saturday to witness the wedding ceremony of the Hindu god Utsava Beram and his spouses.
Three jeweled and colorfully decked statues, (...)
Kathmandu (dpa) – Transport came to a halt and schools, markets and businesses closed in eastern Nepal on Thursday as an ethnic group called a three-day general strike to demand rights in the new constitution.
The Khas Chettri Ekta Samaj, which (...)
Kathmandu (dpa) – Police in Nepal arrested 80 people on Monday for using cannabis at the country's biggest Hindu temple, in the capital Kathmandu, where celebrations for the Shivaratri festival were underway.
“We also arrested 42 others on (...)
Kathmandu (dpa) – Nepal's Special Court convicted a British businessman and his Nepalese associate Monday, as well as three high-level police officers, on charges of involvement in a multi-million dollar procurement scam for UN forces in (...)
Kathmandu (dpa) – Atithi Shrestha squints at the sun as her mother removes the shawl draped over her head, so the child can gaze up at the Sun God, whom she is about to wed.
For the past 12 days, the 9-year-old has been locked in a dark room, (...)
Kathmandu (dpa) – Wild elephants killed three people and injured two Thursday in south-eastern Nepal, police said.
Three elephants living in the Baniyani forest in the Jhapa district went on a rampage in nearby settlements in Prithvinagar, (...)
Kathmandu (dpa) – Nepal staged its annual elephant beauty pageant Wednesday, with the creatures parading along a catwalk before a panel of judges in the south-west of the country.
The beauty pageant for the pachyderms was held in Chitwan (...)