Tag: Nepal

• Monday, January 16th 2023 - 10:01 UTC

  Argentine passenger among those killed in Nepalese airliner crash

  

  An Argentine 57-year-old woman was confirmed to be aboard the Yeti Air ATR 72 twin-engined European-built turboprop airliner that crashed Sunday while trying to land in Pokhara, a tourist town in central Nepal.

• Tuesday, May 11th 2021 - 08:58 UTC

  China acknowledges the need to guard the Mt. Everest border to keep coronavirus at bay

  

  The government of China Monday announced it will be reinforcing its patrolling of the Himalayan Nepalese border, particularly near or around Mount Everest to prevent the coronavirus from entering the country through climbers.

• Thursday, June 18th 2020 - 20:41 UTC

  Another conflict? Nepal approves new map which includes land controlled by India

  The upper house of Nepal’s parliament approved a new map of the country on Thursday including land controlled by India, in a row that has strained ties between the South Asian neighbors.

• Wednesday, April 29th 2015 - 09:33 UTC

  Kathmandu is estimated to have moved 3 meters to the south, because of Nepal tremor

  

  The tremor which struck Nepal on Saturday, April 25, killing more than 5,500 people so far, may have caused a land area around the capital Kathmandu to budge by several meters, experts say. The estimate is about 3 meters southward, according to initial analysis of seismological data obtained from sound waves which travel through Earth after an earthquake, said University of Cambridge tectonics expert James Jackson.

• Monday, April 27th 2015 - 06:58 UTC

  No end in suffering for Nepal: officially 3.220 dead and powerful aftershocks

  

  At least 3,218 people are now known to have died in a massive earthquake which hit Nepal on Saturday, say officials. Rameshwor Dangal, head of Nepal's disaster management agency, said another 6,500 people had been injured. Dozens of people are also reported to have been killed in neighboring China and India.

• Thursday, June 30th 2011 - 20:17 UTC

  US says Haiti cholera epidemic was imported, probably UN Nepal peacekeepers

  

  Evidence strongly suggests UN peacekeepers from Nepal were the source of a cholera epidemic in Haiti that has killed more than 5,500 people, said a new report by the US Centres for Disease Control Prevention.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2011 - 14:04 UTC

  Nepal designated landmine free country; UK main contributor to the milestone

  

  The UK Government congratulated Nepal for the successful clearance of its last remaining minefields and its designation as a landmine free country. On the culmination of the task, the Foreign Office called on the Nepalese government to join the Ottawa Convention