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Kathmandu

Type: City

Name: Kathmandu

Country: Nepal

Latitude: 27.709999

Longitude: 85.309998

population: 790,612

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 4 reports

Border Security Force

Six Indians conquer Mt Everest

Kathmandu: Five Indians apart from amputee climber Arunima Sinha on Tuesday conquered Mount Everest. The trekkers Anita Devi, Susen Mahato, Lovraj Singh Dharamshaktu, Kanta Devi and Ramala reached the top of the world, said a release by the Asian Trekking ... [Published zeenews.com - 3 hours ago]

Entities: Arunima Sinha, Devi, Border Security Force, Zee News Ltd, Kathmandu

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 2 hours ago - 3 reports

Cricket

Janakpur, Nepalgunj reach semis

KATHMANDU, May 21: Region No 7 (Janakpur) and Region No 5 (Nepalgunj) entered the semifinals of Wai Wai Women´s U-19 National Cricket Tournament on Tuesday.Defending champion Janakpur, which had lost its opening match against Nepalgunj on Sunday, registered ... [Published MyRepublica.com - 2 hours ago]

Entities: Kathmandu, Cricket

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 8 hours ago - 3 reports

Gold drops to 22-month low

KATHMANDU: Following the cue from international market, the gold price today further dropped to a 22-month low of Rs 48,697 per tola (11.664 gram) in the domestic market today. The regular price drop in the international market and strengthening of dollar ... [Published Himalayan Times - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Gold Price Lower, Domestic Market, International Market

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 10 hours ago - 2 reports

Constituent Assembly

Court moved against plan to have 10,000 signatures

KATHMANDU, MAY 20 - The Supreme Court was moved on Monday, demanding annulment of the constitutional provision which requires the parties represented in the former Interim Legislature-Parliament to produce 10,000 signatures of supporters while applying ... [Published Kathmandu Post - 10 hours ago]

Entities: Petitioner, Elections, Constituent Assembly, Kathmandu

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 11 hours ago - 4 reports

BBC British Broadcasting Corp

Nepal investigates ‘illegal$...

KATHMANDU: A British mountaineer’s interview with the BBC on his smartphone from the top of Mount Everest has stirred controversy with the Nepalese government calling the broadcast “illegal”, officials said yesterday.British mountaineer Daniel Hughes ... [Published Qatar Peninsula - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Nepal, Illegal, Smartphone, oxygen mask, BBC British Broadcasting Corp

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated 23 hours ago - 2 reports

Sadbhavana govt talks inconclusive

KATHMANDU: Talks between the government and leaders of Sadbhavana Party today ended inconclusively. As we are yet to arrive to a common ground on some issues, the talks was postponed till 11:00 am tomorrow, said Sadbhavana Party Vice-chairman Laxman Lal ... [Published Himalayan Times - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Sadbhavana Party, Laxman Lal Karna, Rajendra Mahato

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 23 hours ago - 2 reports

New KMC chief outlines priorities

KATHMANDU: Like his predecessors, the new executive chief of the Kathmandu Metropolitan City has vowed to ensure good governance and improve tax collection in the countrys only metropolis. Upon assuming office today, Laxman Aryal, who replaces Kedar Bahadur ... [Published Himalayan Times - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Kathmandu, Taxes, UNACCOUNTED FOR, Ministry of Health, Embezzlement

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 3 reports

RPP set to elect new CC today

Surya Bahadur Thapa (centre) waves his hands to the party cadres after his election as the RPP chairman on Sunday. KATHMANDU: The unified Rastriya Prajatantra Party (RPP) has unanimously elected four leaders in the party's central committee, while the ... [Published Himalayan Times - May 20 2013]

Entities: Surya Bahadur Thapa, Rastriya Prajatantra Party, Rastriya Janashakti Party

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 4 reports

Extorting traders faking Chhota Rajan’s identity

KATHMANDU, MAY 19 - In what police have taken as a new discovery in the city’s crime-bound face, an individual has been found to have created a fake identity of a notorious Indian don Chhota Rajan to threaten his former business partner.The Central Investigations ... [Published Kathmandu Post - May 20 2013]

Entities: Fake, Extortion, Kathmandu, Police

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 2 reports

Nepalgunj Birgunj open with wins

KATHMANDU: Region-V (Nepalgunj) and Region-II (Birgunj) opened the Wai Wai Womens U-19 National Cricket Tournament with wins here today. Nepalgunj beat Region-VII (Janakpur) by 45 runs, while Birgunj defeated Region-III (Kathmandu) by four wickets. Electing ... [Published Himalayan Times - May 19 2013]

Entities: Kathmandu, Puja, Cricket, Dismissal

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 2 reports

'Valley road expansion project on last leg'

KATHMANDU: The coordinator of the high level team monitoring the Kathmandu Valleys Road Extension Project, Krishna Hari Baskota, today said the road project has made significant progress and if it goes at the current pace, 90 per cent of the target will ... [Published Himalayan Times - May 19 2013]

Entities: Kathmandu, Krishna Hari Baskota, Headquarters, Fiscal Year

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 3 reports

Dead peacekeeper brought home‚ cremated

Bed Kumari Thapa Magar breaks into tears after receiving a Nepali Army honour for her husband Dilip Thapa Magar, in Kathmandu on Sunday. Dilip, a peacekeeper with the United Nations UNIFIL Mission, was killed in the line of duty in Lebanon. His body was ... [Published Himalayan Times - May 19 2013]

Entities: Thapa Magar, Nepali Army, Kathmandu, Martyrdom, United Nations

Quotes

Saluting Arunima's "courage, grit, determination and dedication," Tata Steel official Sunil Bhaskaran said: "These qualities played a major role in her very special achievement. Youth of the country will derive inspiration from achievers like Arunima who have now etched their names in history for their extraordinary and brave achievements, despite all odds."

Arunima is first woman amputee to scale Everest [Published The Hindu - 1 hour ago]

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TripAdvisor Names 2013 Travellers' Choice Destinations... [Published PR Newswire Asia - 1 hour ago]

"The GMR officials seem proactive at some point," an official at the IBN engaged in the issues told Republica. "They even make a calculation of what other developers are going through."

GMR seeks generation license for Upper Karnali [Published MyRepublica.com - 1 hour ago]

"If you are looking for short-term earnings to confirm the current rally in share prices, they will be few and far between," he said. "In Australia, they have more fragility around the economic recovery in the short term, but of course they are a pretty big economy and it can turn pretty quickly."

Aust coughs and Kiwis catch a cold [Published New Zealand Herald - 1 hour ago]

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Youths stress for autonomous mechanism [Published MyRepublica.com - 2 hours ago]
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Woman with prosthetic legs scales Mt Everest [Published Gulf News - 3 hours ago]
Riddhi Siddhi Jewellers, Geetanjali told to sto... [Published MyRepublica.com - 3 hours ago]
Rato Machhindranath coconut throwing ceremony c... [Published MyRepublica.com - 3 hours ago]
US climber injured in Mt Makalu fall dies [Published Himalayan Times - 3 hours ago]
NC calls for action in Haque murder [Published Himalayan Times - 3 hours ago]
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Construction works on Tunnel Highway within month [Published Himalayan Times - 3 hours ago]
3-member team to crack Haque murder [Published Himalayan Times - 3 hours ago]
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Well cleaner dies of suffocation [Published Himalayan Times - 3 hours ago]
Merger for safeguarding nationality and democra... [Published Himalayan Times - 3 hours ago]
Sadbhawana Chair Mahato on fast-unto-death [Published Himalayan Times - 3 hours ago]

Blogs

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Nepalese workers poisoned by local and global p... [Published Climate and Capitalism - 6 hours ago] Driven from their farms by climate change, brickworkers near luxurious Kathmandu are dying slowly in an air pollution disaster zone ...
Nepal: Second H5N1 outbreak in capital [Published H5N1 - May 16 2013] Via República.com: Second bird flu outbreak in capital. Excerpt:Kathmandu, May 15: A rapid response team comprising vet officials and technicians on Wednesday evening culled 200 chickens following confirmation of avian flu (H5N1) in a poultry farm owned ...
Animal Cruelty In Kathmandu On The Rise [Published Global Voices Online - May 04 2013] Siromani Dhungana at United We Blog! for a Democratic Nepal highlights rising cruelty to animals in the Nepali capital Kathmandu and questions how long it will continue. Written by Rezwan · comments (0) Share: Donate · facebook · twitter ...
Hospitality at Base Camp [Published Times of India Blogs - Apr 29 2013] When it comes to hospitality at Base Camp, few can match the Indian Army under the leadership of its young Major Jamwal, affectionately called Jamie by his buddies. Jamie is a trained mountaineer and a specialist in high altitude rescue and the leader ...
Nepal: New H5N1 cases detected in Chitwan [Published H5N1 - Apr 23 2013] While all the attention is on China's H7N9, H5N1 is wrecking Nepal's poultry industry. Via The Himalayan Times: New bird flu cases detected in Chitwan. Excerpt:Over 6,000 fowls were culled at Chitra Bahadur Shrestha’s poultry farm in Bharatpur and Rambabu ...

Audio/Video

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Banned Nepal film exposes army abuses [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Mar 10 2013]
Citizenship cards for Nepal's 'third gender' [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Feb 05 2013]
Nepal pressured to arrest war criminals [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Jan 16 2013]
Rally's against rape in Nepal [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Jan 02 2013]
Nepal uses art to spark climate action [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - Dec 21 2012]

Press Releases

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TripAdvisor Names 2013 Travellers' Choice Desti... [Published PR Newswire Asia - 1 hour ago]
Nepal boosts earthquake preparedness [Published IOM Press Briefing Notes - Apr 30 2013]
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