REUTERS KATHMANDU (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A woman and her two sons suffocated to death in Nepal after she was forced to sleep in a windowless shed during her period, police said on Thursday, the latest victims of an age-old Hindu practice that was banned more than a decade ago. Amba Bohara, 35, and her sons, aged 12 and nine, …
KATHMANDU Tourist arrivals in Nepal topped one million for the first time in 2018 — boosted by increased visitors from India, China, the US, Sri Lanka and the UK. The Himalayan nation saw the number of tourists jump nearly 25 percent as it welcomed a record high of 1,173,072 visitors in 2018, the country’s tourism authorities said Tuesday. Rabindra Adhikari, …
HAH Report Kathmandu: A centre of excellence on Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) was launched on Tuesday (Nov 13) at ICIMOD to improve access to modern, affordable and reliable energy services in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region, says a press statement. The centre, called Regional Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Capability for the Hindu Kush Himalaya (REEECH), aims to …
