Nepal

Even as the rescue teams from India will pull out of Nepal along with 33 other nations, the Indian embassy declared that New Delhi's massive rescue and relief work in Nepal was its biggest response to a natural calamity in a foreign…

The situation in earthquake-hit Nepal is "beyond our imagination", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday. Modi said he was sad that the land where Lord Buddha was born was in serious trouble following the April 25 edarthquake that has…

Kathmandu, May 3 (IANS): Nepal's disaster panel on Sunday recommended that 4,050 foreign rescue and search personnel be sent back as its own security personnel can handle the task of recovering the remaining bodies of people killed in the…

Kathmandu, May 3 (IANS): Ninety percent of the ancient heritage of Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur has been damaged in last week's devastating earthquake and it will take at least seven to 10 years to rebuild it, according to Nepal's…

Kathmandu, May 2 (IANS): As search and rescue operations continued for the seventh day, the toll due to the massive earthquake that hit Nepal on April 25 rose to 7,040 on Saturday, officials said. As many as 14,087 people were injured in…

Kathmandu, May 2 (IANS) At least 38 Indians were killed and 10 injured in the devastating earthquake that jolted Nepal last week, leaving over 6,841 people dead and more than 14,000 injured till Saturday, the government said. In a…

A 5.1-magnitude earthquake on Saturday struck Nepal at 11.30 a.m. with its epicentre at Barpark in Gorkha district, seismologist Mukunda Bhattarai from the National Seismology Centre (NSC) said. This is the third quake with its epicenter in…

Kathmandu, May 2 (IANS): The toll in the massive earthquake that devastated Nepal has risen to 6,621, the home ministry said on Saturday. The new deaths were reported after more bodies were pulled out from quake-hit sites. Among the…

The US military is preparing to deploy helicopters in Nepal to support the ongoing relief efforts in the quake-hit country. The US State Department on Friday said the move was aimed at conducting humanitarian assessments and delivering…

Social networking website Facebook has raised funds over $10 million within two days to support earthquake-torn Nepal. The Himalayan nation was rattled by a powerful earthquake measuring 7.9 on Richter Scale on April 25 which left over…