Nepal 2017

Sixty women including eight from India, have received permits to summit Mount Everest this spring, an increase from the total number in 2017, Nepal's Department of Tourism (DoT) said on Friday.

CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli, seen as close to China, is set to become Prime Minister of Nepal again with the Left alliance completing a clean sweep in the country's first elections to the provincial and federal assemblies.

India is ranked 76th for fixed broadband speeds globally, according to November data from Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index.

Former Nepali prime minister K.P. Oli on Sunday looked set for a return to power after winning his seat in parliament and his Communist UML party and Maoist allies on course to win a majority.

Nepal's Left alliance is leading in the parliamentary polls, winning 40 of the 49 seats for which results were declared today while the ruling Nepali Congress got 6 seats in the historic elections that many hope will bring the much-needed political stability to the country.

Millions of people across 45 districts in Nepal on Thursday voted in the final phase of the general elections that will send representatives to the country's first bicameral legislature following the approval of the 2015 Constitution.

Around 65 per cent votes were cast today as polls opened in Nepal for a historic round of provincial and parliamentary elections that many hope will bring the much-needed political stability to the Himalayan nation.

Nepalis began voting for a new parliament on Sunday with the army on alert as a series of small blasts blamed on a rogue Maoist group reminded the Himalayan nation of the violence and instability it is hoping to leave behind.

Millions of Nepalis vote Sunday in historic polls billed as a turning point for the impoverished Himalayan nation, hoping to end the ruinous instability that has plagued the country since the end of a bloody civil war a decade ago.

India ranked a low 122 on a list of the world's happiest countries published under a UN initiative, dropping four slots from last year and coming behind China, Pakistan, Nepal and Iraq.

The Gandhi family stronghold Amethi, represented in parliament by Rahul Gandhi, and the temple town of Ayodhya are among the areas voting today in the fifth of seven-phase elections in Uttar Pradesh. A 57.36 per cent turnout was recorded till 5 pm across the 11 districts - including five bordering Nepal - that are voting today. In an increasingly a...

Uttar Pradesh is voting for the fifth of its seven-phase elections today. The voting held across 11 districts, including five bordering Nepal, has recorded a voter turnout of 57.4 per cent till 5 pm. The districts going to polls in this phase are Balrampur, Gonda, Faizabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Bahraich, Shravasti, Siddharth Nagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nag...

Uttar Pradesh votes for the fifth of its seven-phase elections today. The voting is being held across 11 districts, including five bordering Nepal. The 51 seats where polling is being held includes Amethi - the borough of the Gandhi family, which is represented in the Lok Sabha by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi. The shrill campaign that had s...

Basant Panchami is being celebrated across India on February 1. Celebrated by Hindus in India and neighbouring Nepal, Basant Panchami marks the beginning of the spring season - Basant means spring and Panchami means "the fifth day". On this day, Hindus visit temples and pray to Goddess Saraswati - the goddess of knowledge, and celebrate the day as ...

Vasant Panchami is a festival celebrated in India, Nepal, and other countries which have people following Hinduism. Vasant Panchami, or as some call it - Basant Panchami, is a day when people go to temples to pray to Saraswati, who is the goddess of knowledge.

Sixty women including eight from India, have received permits to summit Mount Everest this spring, an increase from the total number in 2017, Nepal's Department of Tourism (DoT) said on Friday.

CPN-UML Chairman KP Sharma Oli, seen as close to China, is set to become Prime Minister of Nepal again with the Left alliance completing a clean sweep in the country's first elections to the provincial and federal assemblies.

India is ranked 76th for fixed broadband speeds globally, according to November data from Ookla’s Speedtest Global Index.

Former Nepali prime minister K.P. Oli on Sunday looked set for a return to power after winning his seat in parliament and his Communist UML party and Maoist allies on course to win a majority.

Nepal's Left alliance is leading in the parliamentary polls, winning 40 of the 49 seats for which results were declared today while the ruling Nepali Congress got 6 seats in the historic elections that many hope will bring the much-needed political stability to the country.

Millions of people across 45 districts in Nepal on Thursday voted in the final phase of the general elections that will send representatives to the country's first bicameral legislature following the approval of the 2015 Constitution.

Around 65 per cent votes were cast today as polls opened in Nepal for a historic round of provincial and parliamentary elections that many hope will bring the much-needed political stability to the Himalayan nation.

Nepalis began voting for a new parliament on Sunday with the army on alert as a series of small blasts blamed on a rogue Maoist group reminded the Himalayan nation of the violence and instability it is hoping to leave behind.

Millions of Nepalis vote Sunday in historic polls billed as a turning point for the impoverished Himalayan nation, hoping to end the ruinous instability that has plagued the country since the end of a bloody civil war a decade ago.

India ranked a low 122 on a list of the world's happiest countries published under a UN initiative, dropping four slots from last year and coming behind China, Pakistan, Nepal and Iraq.

The Gandhi family stronghold Amethi, represented in parliament by Rahul Gandhi, and the temple town of Ayodhya are among the areas voting today in the fifth of seven-phase elections in Uttar Pradesh. A 57.36 per cent turnout was recorded till 5 pm across the 11 districts - including five bordering Nepal - that are voting today. In an increasingly a...

Uttar Pradesh is voting for the fifth of its seven-phase elections today. The voting held across 11 districts, including five bordering Nepal, has recorded a voter turnout of 57.4 per cent till 5 pm. The districts going to polls in this phase are Balrampur, Gonda, Faizabad, Ambedkar Nagar, Bahraich, Shravasti, Siddharth Nagar, Basti, Sant Kabir Nag...

Uttar Pradesh votes for the fifth of its seven-phase elections today. The voting is being held across 11 districts, including five bordering Nepal. The 51 seats where polling is being held includes Amethi - the borough of the Gandhi family, which is represented in the Lok Sabha by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi. The shrill campaign that had s...

Basant Panchami is being celebrated across India on February 1. Celebrated by Hindus in India and neighbouring Nepal, Basant Panchami marks the beginning of the spring season - Basant means spring and Panchami means "the fifth day". On this day, Hindus visit temples and pray to Goddess Saraswati - the goddess of knowledge, and celebrate the day as ...

Vasant Panchami is a festival celebrated in India, Nepal, and other countries which have people following Hinduism. Vasant Panchami, or as some call it - Basant Panchami, is a day when people go to temples to pray to Saraswati, who is the goddess of knowledge.