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  International donors pledge USD 3.5 bn to rebuild quake-hit Nepal

  World | June 25, 2015 18:15 IST

  Kathmandu: 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 | June 25, 2015 22:09 IST

  Kathmandu: 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 | June 17, 2015 9:47 IST

  Kathmandu: 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 | June 12, 2015 11:40 IST

  Kathmandu: 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

  Politics | June 11, 2015 16:35 IST

  New 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 | June 11, 2015 14:07 IST

  Kathmandu:  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 | June 05, 2015 16:21 IST

  Kathmandu:  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 | June 04, 2015 21:23 IST

  Kathmandu: 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 | June 02, 2015 19:14 IST

  Kathmandu: 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 18:07 IST

  Kathmandu:  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 IST

  Ramkot (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 17:51 IST

  Singati (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 13:48 IST

  Kathmandu: 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 22:11 IST

  Kathmandu: 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 19:05 IST

  New 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 13:26 IST

  Kathmandu: 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 17:15 IST

  Kathmandu: 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 IST

  Kathmandu: 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 IST

  Kathmandu: 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

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  13 aftershocks jolt Nepal as toll in fresh quake rises to 79

  World | May 13, 2015 23:19 IST

  Kathmandu: Over a dozen aftershocks jolted Nepal today, keeping people on edge a day after a powerful 7.3-magnitude earthquake killed 79 people in the Himalayan nation that had just begun to rebuild itself following the