Tag: Nepal

• Wednesday, September 2nd 2026 - 21:22 UTC

  China's embassy accuses a senior Argentine official of spreading “rumours” about the Nepal flood

  

  China's embassy in Buenos Aires has accused an official in Javier Milei's government of spreading “malicious rumours” and seeking to “stain the international image” of the Asian country, after he attributed to a Chinese state company responsibility for the flood that devastated the border corridor between Nepal and Tibet on August 26.

• Thursday, August 27th 2026 - 21:00 UTC

  More than 390 bodies recovered and nearly 1,500 unaccounted for after the Nepal Himalaya flood

  

  Rescue teams have recovered at least 389 bodies in Nepali territory and three more in China's Tibet region, while close to 1,500 people remain unaccounted for after the flood that swept down Himalayan valleys on Wednesday along the border between the two countries. A Nepali police spokesman told the Reuters news agency the death toll would continue to rise as relief work advances.

• Wednesday, August 26th 2026 - 16:46 UTC

  Twelve Britons are among travellers unaccounted for after the flood on Nepal's border

  

  Twelve British citizens appear on a provisional list of travellers Nepali authorities have been unable to contact following the flash flood and landslides that struck the border corridor between Nepal and Tibet on Wednesday. The country's tourism board included hundreds of people on that register, among them 105 Indian nationals, three Americans, one Australian and one Dutch citizen, as well as Nepalis.

• Monday, April 20th 2026 - 21:59 UTC

  British Army spring recruiting season in Nepal for future Gurkha soldiers

  

  Each Spring in Nepal, something extraordinary happens: the search begins for the next intake of Gurkha soldiers, young Nepalese men, many still teenagers, all with an ambition to join the British Army.

• Monday, March 23rd 2026 - 02:25 UTC

  Falklands’ Veteran ex Gurkha captain sits as elected member of Nepal’s parliament

  

  A Falkland Islands Veteran former Gurkha captain has been elected to the Nepalese parliament as a member of the Sharm Sanskriti party. For Captain Purna Limbu it is the culmination of a lifelong of struggle and persistence, from a modest rural environment to lawmaker, through international military service and social activism.

• 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.