Piercing for navel jewels, dainty eyebrow rings and chunky tongue studs, and piercing lips, tongues, nipples and genitalia, and tattooing of body parts – these are no longer limited to Western ...

Devotees pray before taking holy bath at Hanumante Ghat in Bhaktapur on the last day of the month-long Madhav Narayan Festival. (Dipesh Shrestha) ...

KATHMANDU, Aug 25: Chiefs of three students´ unions have expressed serious concerns to the class disruption for long in the Purbanchal University owing to agitations carried out by the local political ...

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec 20: Park Geun-hye´s election as South Korea´s first female president could mean a new drive to start talks with bitter rival North Korea, though it´s unclear how much further ...

KATHMANDU: Resident Coordinator of United Nations Torence D Jones has urged the government to formulate the new Foreign Aid Policy at the earliest so as to attract more assistance from the donor ...

RATNANAGAR, Chitwan, Sept 10: Two teachers have been arrested on a charge of their involvement in sexual harassment on their own students in Madi of Chitwan district. Police said guardians nabbed the ...

BHADRAPUR, Dec 5: The District Natural Disaster Relief Committee, Jhapa has started distributing relief assistance to the family members rendered helpless after fire engulfed Bhutanese refugee camp in ...

KATHMANDU, May 15: Long distance runner Sanjay Pandit began his 200-km race from Jiri to Kathmandu on Saturday. Locals of Jiri, a tourist destination of Dolakha, gave a grand farewell to Pandit as he ...

DHAKA, Jan 31: Nepali kabaddi officials were engaged in a verbal duel just before the kickoff of the women’s kabaddi match against Bangladesh in the 11th South Asian Games (SAG) at the National ...

KATHMANDU, Sept 28: The central committee meeting of UCPN (Maoist) on Sunday criticized the undeclared economic blockade imposed by India on Nepal. The party's central committee met for the first time ...

KATHMANDU, Jan 7: Furba Sherpa, 38 a resident of Chapali, Bhadrakali, originally from Shankhuwashaba district was found with throat slit on Sunday night near his under-construction house. Police have ...

SAO PAULO, June 19: Neymar could be banned for more than a game because of the red card received after Brazil's 1-0 loss to Colombia in the Copa America. Neymar will miss the final group match against ...