A Chinese climber who lost both legs to frostbite on Everest four decades ago is hoping to finally reach the summit after Nepal's top court overruled a controversial government ban on blind and double amputee climbers
07 April,2018 08:21 AM IST | Bhaktapur | Agencies
The death toll in Saturday's earthquake and aftershocks in the country has climbed to 66 with Bihar reporting the highest casualties
27 April,2015 10:10 AM IST | PTI
While their parents and team leaders were worried, the eight children who were part of the expedition and landed in Kathmandu just some time after the worst earthquake in decades hit Nepal, remained brave in the face of the dangers; they even shared the food they were getting with others who didn’t have any
28 April,2015 08:53 AM IST | Chaitraly Deshmukh
Social media is a chronicle of life, and sometimes death. So it should be no surprise that a site of great human and cultural loss in Nepal’s devastating earthquake is now barraged with the clicking of smartphones
28 April,2015 08:40 AM IST | Agencies
The toll in India following Saturday's earthquake has gone up to 72, even as the northern regions of Bihar and West Bengal along the border with Nepal were again jolted by another temblor on Monday causing panic among the people
28 April,2015 08:32 AM IST | IANS
With little or no sanitation programme for the victims of the Nepal earthquake, doctors fear rainwater will prove to be a breeding ground for malaria, dengue, diarrhoea and leptospirosis and may cause epidemics
28 April,2015 08:18 AM IST | Vinod Kumar Menon
For a 43-year-old doctor from Maharashtra, the sight of a shaking hotel in Kathmandu where he stayed when the killer quake struck Nepal, brought back memories of the massive quake in Latur in 1993, which had claimed around 8,000 lives
28 April,2015 08:38 AM IST | Agencies
Completely ignoring the fact that Mumbai lies in a Seismic Zone III area, the Development Plan had mentioned floods as the sole natural disaster that could hurt the city, say activists, political parties
28 April,2015 09:50 AM IST | Varun Singh
The Maharashtra government has managed to locate all the estimated 1,200 tourists from different parts of the state stranded in quake-ravaged Nepal, an official said here on Monday
27 April,2015 04:53 PM IST | IANS
Over 3,600 people were killed and thousands were injured when a massive earthquake and several strong aftershocks caused widespread destruction in Nepal. India too was affected
27 April,2015 12:40 PM IST | PTIADVERTISEMENT
