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Shafaqna India: Pakistan ranks 161st on a list of 191 countries on the UN Human Development Index, scoring 0.544 points, according to a report released on Wednesday. This shows a slight…

Authorities in Nepal have retrieved the bodies of all six people killed in a helicopter crash on Tuesday, including five Mexican nationals, authorities said, the latest in a series of…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday promised to take bilateral ties with Nepal to “Himalayan heights” while announcing a fertiliser plant in Nepal, a second intra-country petroleum pipeline, conclusion of…

The 2023 International Freedom Report on Nepal has sparked controversy due to allegations that right-wing religious groups associated with the ruling party of India are providing money to influential politicians.…

Two Pakistani women climbers stunned the mountaineering fraternity, and brought glory to their country, on Tuesday by scaling Lhotse, the world’s fourth highest peak at 8,516 metres in Nepal. The…

The potential for cross-border trade between India and its neighboring countries — Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Myanmar, Pakistan, Afghanistan and China — has not been fully realized. India’s formal cross-border trade…

Rescuers resumed searching on Monday in Nepal for four people still missing after the Himalayan nation’s deadliest plane crash in 30 years, officials said. According to the latest report, the…

Nepal’s top court ordered on Wednesday the release and deportation of Charles Sobhraj, the French serial killer portrayed in the Netflix series “The Serpent” who was responsible for a string…

The recent popular term, ‘South Asia’ in world politics, has traditionally been defined in several perspectives like geography, history, ethnicity, politics, culture and also known as the southern subregion of…

Nine-year-old Pramila Chepang from Benighat-Rorang Rural Municipality weighs just 13 kilograms, which indicates that the girl has been suffering from a severe form of malnutrition. According to the World Health…

Throughout the years, Laxmi Shrestha and her husband saw the opportunities that opening an online shop could bring to her family business. “Looking at the trend of TikTok and other…

Nepal risks letting wartime atrocities committed during the Himalayan kingdom’s Maoist insurgency go unpunished with long-delayed reforms to its transitional justice laws, rights groups said Monday. Both security forces and…

A 47-year-old Nepali sherpa has set a climbing record by scaling all the world’s 14 peaks that are higher than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) for a second time, his agency…

Rescue workers in Nepal have so far recovered 14 bodies from the crash site of a small plane carrying 22 people that went down in a remote region, an airport…

A plane operated by a private airline in Nepal went missing on Sunday with 22 people on board, officials told Reuters, saying cloudy weather was preventing search helicopters from flying…

Nepal reported its first cases of African swine fever in pigs, the World Organization for Animal Health said on Thursday. The fever has so far killed 934 pigs in six…

 Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontieres or RSF) on Tuesday released the 2022 World Press Freedom index, indicating that Pakistan has slid down twelve places to reach 157th position out…

The rich and pampered farmlands of Tarai, as natives nostalgically describe, are no longer a reality today. Colourful houses of concrete, some pink and blue, have gradually replaced the luscious…

A simple search on YouTube titled “drug consumption in Nepal”, would lead to many awareness videos highlighting several stories of very small children and their journeys in and out of…

A simple search on YouTube titled “drug consumption in Nepal”, would lead to many awareness videos highlighting several stories of very small children and their journeys in and out of…

Before 2017, Bimala Mijar was a shy and timid person who couldn’t properly express her needs or concerns. As a cook for a foreign education consultancy in Kumaripati, she spent…

India on Friday abstained in the UN Human Rights Council on a vote to urgently establish an independent international commission of inquiry to investigate alleged human rights violations and related…

Politics is a dirty game. If in doubt, let me point you in the direction of Nepal. On February 27, after more than five years of internecine, intransigent discourse, Nepal’s…

Nepal’s capital shut schools, ordered citizens to carry vaccination cards in public, banned religious festivals and instructed hotel guests to be tested every three days as it battles its biggest…

Nepal on Monday reported two Omicron cases, first since the new coronavirus variant was detected in South Africa on November 9. According to the Ministry of Health and Population, a…

Despite being the oldest sovereign nation in South Asia, Nepal is also the most unstable nation of the subcontinent. For example since Nepal’s republican era of 2006, Nepal has got…

Amnesty International Nepal has said that Nepal’s authorities must take urgent and concerted actions to prevent custodial deaths through appropriate legal accountability measures. Issuing a statement on Tuesday, during the…

A search team flew out to recover three bodies in a remote corner of Nepal’s Himalayas on Monday, close to where a trio of French climbers went missing last month.…

Rescuers on Wednesday suspended their hunt for three French climbers missing in the Himalayas after an avalanche, with little hope of finding the men alive when the search resumes later…

India has been ranked 101st out of 116 countries, compared to 94th out of 107 in 2020, in the peer-reviewed annual Global Hunger Index (GHI) report, prepared by Irish aid…