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Eight killed in Nepal bus accident
World | Sep 19, 2015, 09:00 AM ISTKathmandu: At least eight people were killed and 37 injured when a passenger bus plunged off a mountain highway in Nepal's Ramechhap district late Friday, police said.The bus veered off the road at Gahirachowk area
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International donors pledge USD 3.5 bn to rebuild quake-hit Nepal
World | Jun 25, 2015, 06:15 PM ISTKathmandu: Led by India and China, global donors today pledged over USD 3.5 billion as aid to Nepal,meeting half of the USD 6.7 billion needed to rebuild the quake-devastated nation, as Nepalese Prime Minister vowed
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Sushma Swaraj meets Chinese counterpart, raises Lakhvi issue
World | Jun 25, 2015, 10:09 PM ISTKathmandu: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today raised with her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi China's blocking of India's move in the UN for action against Pakistan over 26/11 mastermind Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi's release, saying it was
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Nepal asks international community to send tourists there
World | Jun 17, 2015, 09:47 AM ISTKathmandu: Nepal today appealed to the international community to send tourists to its famed heritage sites to revive its ailing tourism industry as it reopened another heritage palace complex, nearly two months after deadly earthquakes
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5.3-magnitude quake rocks Nepal
World | Jun 12, 2015, 11:40 AM ISTKathmandu: An earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale hit Nepal on Thursday night, a media report said on Friday.The National Seismological Centre of Nepal said that the epicentre of Thursday's quake was in Sindhupalchowk
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Nepal meet: PM Modi conveys support, leaves open his participation
National | Jun 11, 2015, 04:35 PM ISTNew Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today conveyed to his Nepalese counterpart Sushil Koirala India's support to the upcoming Donors' Conference on the quake-hit country's rehabilitation but left open the issue of his participation in
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30 killed, 12 missing in landslide in Nepal
World | Jun 11, 2015, 02:07 PM ISTKathmandu: At least 30 people have been killed in a landslide triggered by the continuous rainfall that has buried six villages in Nepal's mountainous northeast."The landslide hit the villages in Taplejung district at night when
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Nepal bans import and sale of Maggi noodles
World | Jun 05, 2015, 04:21 PM ISTKathmandu: Nepal has temporarily banned the import and sale of Nestle's Maggi noodles from India, following reports that the level of lead content in the popular instant snack in India was found to be above
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Nepal testing Maggi noodles imported from India: officials
World | Jun 04, 2015, 09:23 PM ISTKathmandu: Nepal is testing Nestle's Maggi noodles imported from India for lead content and may impose a ban on the popular instant snack if the level of toxic chemical is found to be above permissible
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Helicopter crashes in quake-hit Nepal; 4 killed
World | Jun 02, 2015, 07:14 PM ISTKathmandu: At least four people including a woman were killed today when a helicopter carrying relief material crashed in one of the worst quake-hit mountainous regions in Nepal.Nepal police said the chopper of Kathmandu-based Mountain
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India simplifies facilitating relief supplies to Nepal
World | May 25, 2015, 06:07 PM ISTKathmandu: India has simplified transit procedures for facilitating relief supplies to landlocked Nepal -- rocked by a devastating quake last month which claimed more than 8,700 lives and destroyed a large number of buildings and
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They survived Nepal's quake but lost livelihood
World | May 24, 2015, 10:45 AM ISTRamkot (Nepal): When 23-year-old Shalendar Lama of this village located in the western valley of Kathmandu found his way out of debris after the April 25 earthquake, little did he realize that his only source
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Many bodies still lie buried in Nepal's Dolakha
World | May 22, 2015, 05:51 PM ISTSingati (Nepal): The bodies of many of those buried in the rubble at Singati Bazar in Nepal's Dolakha district -- among the worst-affected in the devastating earthquake of April 25 and the May 12 temblor
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200 Buddhist monks, nuns killed in Nepal quake
World | May 22, 2015, 01:48 PM ISTKathmandu: Around 200 Buddhist monks and nuns have been killed as some 1,000 monasteries collapsed due to the April 25 earthquake and subsequent aftershocks in Nepal, authorities said.Buddhist Philosophy Promotion and Monastery Development Committee (BPPMDC),
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Mild tremors hit Kathmandu, surrounding areas
World | May 21, 2015, 10:11 PM ISTKathmandu: Three mild tremors today struck Kathmandu and surrounding areas, keeping people on the edge in Nepal, battered by the April 25 earthquake and aftershocks that killed nearly 9,000 people. A tremor measuring 4 on the
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Delhi to give Nepal portable ventilators, X-ray machines
India | May 21, 2015, 07:05 PM ISTNew Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said his government would provide portable ventilators and x-ray machines to quake-hit Nepal as well as software and hardware support to maintain the database of Nepalese
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International assistance sought for Nepal's reconstruction
World | May 18, 2015, 01:26 PM ISTKathmandu: Nepalese Prime Minister Sushil Koirala has urged the international community to support the rehabilitation of the people displaced by the devastating earthquakes and to aid the government's larger reconstruction effort.Koirala on Sunday appealed to
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Wreckage of missing US chopper found in Nepal; toll reaches 117
World | May 15, 2015, 05:15 PM ISTKathmandu: Three charred bodies and wreckage of a US Marine chopper that went missing while delivering aid in quake-hit Nepal were today recovered in a remote hilly area as death toll from the fresh quake
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5.5-magnitude quake jolts Nepal today
World | May 15, 2015, 12:25 PM ISTKathmandu: A quake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale on Friday jolted Nepal reeling in the aftermath of major tremors last month and earlier this week which caused massive damage and claimed more than 8,000
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Toll in Tuesday's Nepal quake rises to 117
World | May 15, 2015, 12:03 PM ISTKathmandu: The toll in the powerful earthquake that rocked Nepal on Tuesday has reached 117, Nepal Police said on Friday.The 7.3-magnitude quake with its epicentre in Dolakha district, some 130 km east of Kathmandu, caused