Kathmandu, Feb 18 (IANS) The government of Nepal has slashed the economic growth forecast from 5.3 percent to 4.2 percent for the current fiscal year 2012-13.

Kathmandu, Feb 5 (IANS) Nepal has begun a three-month-long census of its tigers which were declared by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as an endangered species in 2010.

Kathmandu, Feb 4 (IANS) Nepal has scrapped due to lack of progress 14 licences for various projects to generate a total of 611 MW of hydro-electricity.

Kathmandu, Feb 2 (IANS) Nepal's largest party, the Unified Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist, began its general convention in Hetauda town Saturday - the first since 1992.

Kathmandu, Jan 31 (IANS) Yarsagumba, commonly known as the "Himalayan Viagra", is declining in Nepal, biological conservationists warned.

Kathmandu, Jan 21 (IANS) Nepal's exports to neighbouring China increased by 254 percent in the first five months of the current fiscal year, officials said Monday.

Kathmandu, Jan 8 (IANS) Nepal's education department has handed over more than 12,000 government schools to the people in the past 10 years, an official said Tuesday.

Kathmandu, Jan 2 (IANS) Nepal has welcomed more than 598,200 tourists in 2012, a 10 percent increase over 2011, making tourism one of the largest sources of revenue.

Kathmandu, Dec 28 (IANS) A team from the Nepali Civil Aviation Authority is scheduled to leave for China Sunday for the purchase of China-made MA60 aircraft, officials said Friday.

Kathmandu, Dec 27 (IANS) Nepal's exports to China have surged four-fold over the first four months of the current fiscal year, Xinhua reported Thursday.

Kathmandu, Dec 27 (IANS) The government of Nepal plans to ease visas for Nepal-bound Chinese tourists, officials said Thursday.

Kathmandu, Dec 24 (IANS) The 9th international elephant festival will kick start Wednesday in Nepal's Chitwan district, home to the famed Chitwan National Park.

Kathmandu, Dec 17 (IANS) Nepal has suspended six quarantine officials for allowing Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC), a US fast food chain, to import raw chicken from the bird-flu affected India, officials said Monday.

Kathmandu, Dec 15 (IANS) United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his deep concern about continuing political deadlock in Nepal and has urged the political parties to form a broad-based government without further delay.

Kathmandu, Dec 7 (IANS) President Ram Baran Yadav Friday granted six more days to the political parties to pick a new consensus prime minister.

Kathmandu, Nov 17 (IANS) Inadequate government support and improper management over the years have left most of the jails in Nepal in shambles. Such is the condition of these prisons that some of them are housing inmates six times more than their capacity.

Kathmandu, Nov 2 (IANS) China is going to open a cultural centre in Nepal in its bid to augment the cultural bond between the two neighbouring countries, Xinhua news agency said.

Kathmandu, Oct 10 (IANS) Anti-India posturing is no longer an appealing issue in Nepal today but some Maoists still believe they could find support among the masses, a leading Nepali daily has said in an editorial.

Kathmandu, Oct 11 (IANS) The Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist) has lifted its two-week-old ban on Indian films in Nepali theatres, the group announced Thursday.

Kathmandu, Oct 12 (IANS) The London Paralympics Committee has warned that it would perform the last rites of a Nepali official who died during the 2012 London Games if it does not hear from the man's kin by Tuesday.

Kathmandu, Oct 3 (IANS) A strain of the swine flu virus -- Pandemic influenza A (H1N1) pdm9 -- has been detected in Kathmandu and three other districts outside the Nepal capital, doctors said Wednesday.

Kathmandu, Sep 27 (IANS) A political party in Nepal has said it will prohibit the entry of Indian-registered vehicles and screening of Hindi movies in Nepal, Xinhua reported.

Kathmandu, Sep 28 (IANS) Nineteen people, including seven British tourists, were killed Friday when their plane turned into a ball of fire as it crashed minutes after taking off from here.

Kathmandu, Sep 28 (IANS) Some passengers in the aircraft that crashed near the international airport here Friday were heard "wailing and screaming", said an eyewitness who recalled the horror.

Kathmandu, Sep 28 (IANS) Nineteen people, including seven British tourists on a trekking holiday to the foothills of Mount Everest, were killed Friday when an aircraft crashed minutes after taking-off from the international airport here.

Kathmandu, Oct 1 (IANS) At least two people were killed and over a dozen, including five Indians, were reported missing when five vehicles were hit by a landslide on a highway in Nepal Sunday night, police said Monday.

Kathmandu, Sep 9 (IANS) Acting Nepal Army chief Lt. Gen. Gaurav Shumsher Rana Sunday formally took over as chief following compulsory retirement of outgoing army chief Chhatra Man Singh Gurung.

Kathmandu, Sep 8 (IANS) Senior police officers in the Kathmandu Valley have warned that Nepali capital has been turned into a hub for illegal trade of small arms and guns.

Kathmandu, Sep 8 (IANS) The Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist) has welcomed the US State Department removing it from its list of terrorist organisations - six years after the end of the armed rebellion in this Himalayan country.

Kathmandu, Aug 25 (IANS) Nepal is set to introduce a new visa regime in an attempt to discourage foreign criminals from using Nepal as a transit point to sneak into a third country and also as a haven for refugees, an official said.

Kathmandu, Aug 18 (IANS) Nepal and China should boost bilateral business ties, Chinese Ambassador to Nepal Yang Houlan said here.

Kathmandu, Aug 14 (IANS) Nepal's gold imports increased by a whopping 114 percent to 5,900 kg during fiscal year 2011-12, compared to import figures of the previous fiscal.

Kathmandu, July 30 (IANS) Being located between China and India can be a driving force for Nepal's development, China's ambassador Yang Houlan said here.

Kathmandu, July 29 (IANS) Nepal Sunday reported an increase in the number of its tigers.

Kathmandu, July 28 (IANS) As many as 15 Indian pilgrims, including four children, were killed and two injured Saturday when their jeep veered off the road and fell into a river in Nepal, a media report said.

Kathmandu, July 28 (IANS) As many as 15 Indian pilgrims, including four children, were killed Saturday when their jeep fell into a river in Nepal, a media report said.

Kathmandu/New Delhi, July 15 (IANS) At least 36 Indians were among 40 people killed Sunday when an overcrowded bus carrying Hindu pilgrims from India to a temple in Nepal veered off the road and fell into a deep canal, authorities in Delhi and Kathmandu said.

Kathmandu, July 15 (IANS) At least 35 pilgrims, most of them Indians, were killed and 12 injured in a road accident in western Nepal Sunday afternoon after their bus veered off the road and fell into a canal, police said.

Kathmandu, July 8 (IANS) Nepal's deposed king Gyanendra Shah has said for the first time that he wants to return to the throne, Xinhua reported.

Kathmandu, June 20 (IANS) Around 81,000 litres of illicit liquor have been seized and destroyed in the Nepali capital in the past three years, police records show.

Kathmandu, June 16 (IANS) At least five teenaged girls have committed suicides in the last three days in Nepal after failing in their School Leaving Certificate (SLC) examination, whose results were declared Wednesday evening, Xinhua reported Saturday.

Kathmandu, June 14 (IANS) Nepal Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai is planning monthly overnight stays in the country's rural regions in order to keep himself well-informed about the people's concerns, RIA Novosti reported.

Kathmandu, June 12 (IANS) More than 400,000 Nepali youths have left the country in 10 months of the current fiscal year in search of jobs, a media report said.

Kathmandu, June 5 (IANS) Twenty-two opposition parties in Nepal Tuesday decided to organise a major "show of strength" in the capital Friday against the "unilateral" declaration of fresh parliamentary polls by the government.

Kathmandu, June 2 (IANS) In a bid to exert pressure on caretaker Prime Minister Baburam Bhattarai to step down, a group of 19 Nepali political parties have decided to hold a mass rally in Kathmandu next week, Xinhua reported.

Kathmanu, May 29 (IANS) Nepali runner Phurbu Tamang regained the title in the world's highest 'Qomolangma Marathon' race Tuesday at the foothills of Mount Qomolangma -- the Tibetan name for the world's highest peak Mount Everest.

Kathmandu, May 26 (IANS) A 73-year-old Japanese lady who climbed Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, this past week has been awarded by the Guinness World Records.

Kathmandu, May 24 (IANS/EFE) Spanish mountaineer Juan Jose Polo Carbayo died on the weekend as he was descending from Mt. Everest after reaching the summit of the world's tallest mountain, the Nepalese agency responsible for the climbing expedition told EFE.

Kathmandu, May 9 (IANS) Possibly the least urbanized country in South Asia, Nepal is also the fastest urbanizing nation in the region -- and unless the government seriously manages urbanization better, the country could fail to attain economic efficiency from the process, a new World Bank study has warned.

Kathmandu, May 12 (IANS) Around 200 people in Myagdi district in western Nepal fell sick in the last four days with an unidentified disease, reports said Saturday.