The Latest Breaking News from Nepal

PILIBHIT: With a catchment area of nine perennial rivers, Pilibhit may soon be under severe threat of heavy floods, especially from the Sharda river, also known as "Kali Nadi" in Nepal and Uttarakhand's Pithoragarh.

Heavy snowfall lashed several areas in Dharchula town in Pithoragarh district, leaving up to two feet of snow in the upper areas and blocking key roads near the Nepal border on Sunday, officials said. Read more on Dynamite News:

A famed extreme skier from the United States who was killed after falling from one of the world’s tallest mountains was on Sunday given a traditional funeral at a Sherpa cremation ground as Buddhist monks officiated over a ceremony attended by family, friends and government officials

Putin’s position may be weak but his citizens won’t push back against him as they have no democratic tradition

The capital had just 70 Nepal-born residents a decade ago, but Nepali is now the third-most-spoken language in Canberra homes, after English and Mandarin.

The body of top American mountaineer Hilaree Nelson was found on Wednesday near a 26,700-foot (8,138-meter) mountain peak in Nepal where she went missing earlier this week.

She became the first known woman to climb both Everest and Lhotse in the span of 24 hours back in 2012.

Hilaree Nelson, 49, was skiing down from the summit of 26,775-foot Mount Manaslu on Monday when she fell off the mountain

The body of American ski mountaineer Hilaree Nelson was found Wednesday, two days after she fell off the world’s eighth-highest mountain.