Most homes in the quake-hit districts of Jajarkot and Rukum, where houses are traditionally built by stacking rocks and logs, collapsed.

21 in the journal PNAS. The study looked at more than 400 women, ages 46 to 86, who live in villages located in the Upper Mustang District of Nepal on the border with Tibet. The villages sit ...

A Sherpa village in Nepal’s Everest region has been engulfed by icy flood waters, officials say. Experts suspect Thame - which sits at an altitude of about 3,800m - was flooded after a glacial ...

KATHMANDU: A devastating flood of freezing water smashed through a village on Friday (Aug 16) in Nepal’s Everest region, local government and army officials said, with experts suspecting a ...

and Tihar (November), are celebrated in the lower regions of Nepal. Ancient villages: Villages like Marpha, Jhong, Thini, and Kagbeni and monasteries like Zharkot are spread across the majestic ...

The government of Nepal's Safe Motherhood Program has introduced several initiatives to decrease maternal deaths by improving ...

KATHMANDU, Nov. 26 (Xinhua) -- A charity project aimed at lighting up the countryside was highlighted in Kathmandu on Tuesday, under which 500 households in remote mountainous areas of Nepal shall be ...