Khafiz al Kicok summited K2 – located on the Karakoram Mountain Range on the border of Pakistan and China – on July 27, 2023.

Famous Shiva Temples Outside India: On the occasion of Mahashivratri, devotion to Lord Shiva takes on an even greater ...

Mahashivratri, falling this year on February 15th, is one of the most significant festivals for devotees of Lord Shiva. While ...

The Dutch colonised Indonesian island of Java in 1596, and found that the coffee plant thrived in its fertile volcanic soil. Java had become the primary source of coffee for the world by 1720, and the ...

Coffee is grown in over 44 districts of Nepal (see map, above). In the last fiscal year, Nepal produced 550 tonnes of Bourbon, Typica and Yellow Caturra varieties of Arabica coffee. The total ...

Tibet and Nepal lie along a major geological fault line where the Indian tectonic plate converges with the Eurasian plate, ...

In recent years, Nepal has been heralded as a global leader in community-based forest conservation. By handing over nearly a third of its nationally owned forest to local villagers in the 1980s, the ...

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The exit of former Nepali prime minister Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli after youth-led protests in September 2025 marked a setback for Beijing, given Oli’s close alignment with Chinese priorities. During ...

On the morning of September 6th, a black S.U.V. carrying a provincial minister from Nepal’s ruling party ran over an eleven-year-old girl, Usha Magar Sunuwar, outside her school in the city of ...

Violent demonstrations fuelled by frustration with the economy and corruption toppled Nepal's government and left dozens of people dead in September, but a video shared online of protesters attempting ...

Violent demonstrations fuelled by frustration with the economy and corruption toppled Nepal's government and left dozens of people dead in September, but a video shared online of protesters attempting ...