Timeline: nepal

2015-08-26 02:05:08sentencessite
  • Nepal protester shot dead in fresh clashes as India pleads for calm
  • Kathmandu: In usually serene Nepal, police have shot dead a protester as fresh clashes erupted a day after an 18-month-old boy and seven police officers died during demonstrations against a new constitution.
  • Anger has been building for weeks in southern Nepal after MPs struck a breakthrough deal on a new constitution.
  • "The political leadership of Nepal should resolve all outstanding issues through dialogue | and arrive at solutions that reflect the will and accommodate the aspirations of all citizens," India's foreign ministry said in a statement.
2015-08-25 03:55:06sentencessite
  • Pro-statehood protesters attack police in west Nepal; 9 dead
2015-08-23 13:50:30sentencessite
  • Nepal reopens Mount Everest to climbers; Japanese man to attempt scale the peak next month
2015-08-23 13:00:00sentencessite
  • "The main purpose of my climb is to spread the message that Nepal was safe for climbers and trekkers even after the earthquake," Kuriki told reporters.
2015-08-23 12:55:15sentencessite
  • KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) " Nepal has opened Mount Everest to climbers for the first time since an earthquake-triggered avalanche in April killed 19 mountaineers and ended the popular spring climbing season.
  • Nepal's tourism minister, Kripasur Sherpa, gave Kuriki his climbing permit at a ceremony in Kathmandu on Sunday.
2015-08-05 08:24:53sentencessite
  • The earthquake on 25 April and another one on 12 May killed 8 900 people in Nepal.
2015-07-31 04:33:52sentencessite
  • Landslides triggered by torrential rain in Nepal swept through villages on Thursday, killing at least 30 people close to the nation's most popular trekking circuit, home ministry officials said.
  • Landslide near Nepal's popular Annapurna trek route kills 30
2015-07-30 18:02:49sentencessite
  • Two powerful earthquakes in Nepal this year that killed almost 9,000 people have raised the risk of landslides across the mountainous country during the rainy season, which lasts from June to September.
2015-07-29 02:22:38sentencessite
  • A temple in southern Nepal known for the mass slaughter of animals at a festival every five years has indefinitely banned animal sacrifice, India's Humane Society International said Tuesday.
  • Those numbers dropped in 2014 after India's Supreme Court banned taking animals across the border to Nepal for sacrifice there, campaigners said.
2015-07-27 19:39:15sentencessite
  • More than 80% of Nepal's 28 million people are Hindus.
2015-07-26 15:42:05sentencessite
  • Boy's murder in Nepal a 'human sacrifice', eleven arrested
  • Police have arrested 11 villagers over the murder of a 10-year-old boy in southwestern Nepal, in what authorities are calling a case of human sacrifice.