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AFP/APP Kathmandu: Climate change, rapid urbanization, and deforestation fueled the devastating floods that swept across Nepal in September, killing over 240 people, scientists reported Thursday. The World Weather Attribution (WWA), a…

AFP/APP Kathmandu: Eighteen-year-old Nepali mountaineer Nima Rinji Sherpa returned to Kathmandu as a national hero after becoming the youngest person to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks. Sherpa completed the final ascent on…

AFP/APP Kathmandu: Search and rescue teams in Nepal's capital have begun assessing the damage from monsoon floods that have killed at least 200 people across the Himalayan republic. As the waters receded, the aftermath of the disaster…

AFP/APP Kathmandu: Low-lying neighbourhoods in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, were inundated by surging floodwaters on Sunday after ferocious monsoon rains that police said had killed at least 101 people across the Himalayan republic.…

AFP/APP Kathmandu: A passenger plane carrying 19 people crashed during takeoff in Kathmandu on Wednesday.  The pilot survived, but "many" others aboard are dead, according to Nepali police. The Saurya Airlines flight, which was…

Xinhua/APP Kathmandu: KP Sharma Oli, the chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal (Unified Marxist Leninist) (CPN-UML), was sworn in on Monday as Nepal’s new prime minister, marking his fourth term in office. President Ram Chandra…

AFP/APP Nepal:Hanging from a rope-and-bamboo ladder off a Himalayan mountain cliff, skilled Nepali climbers gather highly prized hallucinogenic honey -- an ancient tradition stung by environmental degradation and rapid climate change.…

Xinhua/APP Kathmandu: Three earthquakes above magnitude 4 jolted Dhading district on Sunday morning, sending tremors to Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital city. The quakes have left a few houses damaged in Dhading but no casualties have been…

News Desk Islamabad: Many of these glaciers are melting as a result of careless trekking because it is now a lucrative industry to take tourists up glaciers. Tourism must be eco-tourism if these glaciers are to survive as human progress…

News Desk Peshawar: Himalayan glaciers disappeared 65 percent faster in the 2010s than in the previous decade; the glaciers could lose up to 80 per cent of their current volume by the end of this century; the availability of water in the…