March 3, 2024 16:50 pm
MUGU, March 3: The Nagma-Gamgadhi section of the Karnali Highway has been obstructed due to incessant snowfall.
January 27, 2024 09:15 am
PHUNGLING, Jan 27: The mountainous region of Taplejung district has been blanketed with snow.
March 23, 2023 12:00 pm
Kathmandu, March 23: Two people from East Nawalparasi who got stuck in the snow while going to Larke Pass located in Chumanubri rural municipality-1 of Gorkha have been rescued safely.
March 20, 2022 13:20 pm
KATHMANDU, March 20: With the impact of the Westerly low pressure system, there is a possibility of light rain coupled with thunderstorm and lightning in some of the hilly areas in the country today, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology.
February 7, 2022 09:18 am
GALESHWOR, Feb 7: Electricity and communication services that were disrupted in Gurja village of Dhaulagiri Rural Municipality in Myagdi district due to snowfall on Thursday and Friday have resumed.
February 6, 2022 13:53 pm
SIMKOT, Feb 6: Snowfall that occurred on Thursday and Friday has disrupted air services on Sunday.
January 27, 2022 09:29 am
KATHMANDU, Jan 27: The weather affected by the impact of a westerly low pressure system for the past few days is likely to improve gradually from Friday.
December 29, 2021 11:01 am
KATHMANDU, Dec 29: Rainfall and snowfall have been predicted in many places of Nepal on Wednesday.
January 18, 2020 08:28 am
KATHMANDU, Jan 18: Continuous rainfall coupled with heavy snowfall on Friday crippled normal life in the hill districts across the country.
January 15, 2020 07:59 am
DADELDHURA, Jan 15: The highways in the far western region are often blocked by heaps of snow during the winter season. As a result, hundreds of passengers have to get stuck on the roads as the authorities ‘cannot clear the roads due to the lack of equipment’. Parts of Bhimdutta Highway, which connects seven districts of the far-west with the rest of the country, has been blocked since the past few days due to heavy snowfall. Dasharath Chand Highway, Jaya Prithivi Highway, Dr KI Singh Highway and some other roads are still slippery due to sno
November 18, 2019 16:53 pm
VENICE, Italy, Nov 18 : Venice was hit Sunday by a record third exceptional tide in the same week while other parts of Italy struggled with a series of weather woes, from rain-swollen rivers to high winds to an out-of-season avalanche.
March 1, 2019 05:30 am
KATHMANDU, Mar 1: The winter rain and snowfall that started from Tuesday night ended Thursday. However, the western and eastern hills will be partially cloudy till Friday and Saturday, according to the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DoHM).
February 28, 2019 08:51 am
HETAUDA, Feb 28: The transport service between Kathmandu and Hetauda has come to a halt since early this morning due to incessant rainfall with snow.
February 24, 2019 17:36 pm
MUSTANG, Feb 24: Transport in the Upper Mustang has remained affected for past one month as mass of snow has covered the roadway.
February 8, 2019 04:00 am
KATHMANDU, Feb 8: Winter rain and snowfall caused by westerly winds starting Wednesday night will continue until Saturday.
January 26, 2019 18:40 pm
The week in pictures January 20-26.
December 13, 2018 11:26 am
HUMLA, Dec. 13: Snowfall occurred in different parts of Humla since last night has affected the normal life in district. Limi, Muchu, Tilgaun and other villages in the northern belt in the district have received snowfall since last midnight, affecting the normal life and movements of the people, according to Ratna Bhandari, a journalist working in the site.
December 1, 2018 18:10 pm
KATHMANDU, DEC 1: The Meteorological Forecasting Division has said that some parts of the hilly region in the country would receive partial to normal rainfall in the coming three days.
May 3, 2018 07:01 am
DOLPA, May 3: A fresh census of snow leopard has begun in Dolpa. According to Shey-Phoksundo National Park of Dolpa, the census is taking place with financial support from the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF).
March 23, 2018 10:56 am
May 30 is not only her birthday for 25-year-old, Dongaala, she shares she looks forward to it because it’s the time of the year she knows she will be on the road. Regardless of work or obligations, she has been making sure that is the case for the past three years now and her intention to continue the tradition is strong this year too.
March 22, 2018 13:01 pm
HUMLA, March 22: The first day of Secondary School Examination (SEE) started from today at 8:00 AM. Six exam centres were allocated for nine hundred and sixty five SEE candidates.
March 3, 2018 07:00 am
SOLUKHUMBU, March 3: The main season of snow usually begins from the last week of January or the first week of February in the Khumbu area of Solukhumbu district. But this year, snow came late and it was less than usual. Much to the surprise of the locals, snowfall was not even enough to cover the mountains surrounding the area.
February 15, 2018 07:43 am
MUGU, Feb 15: As it has been snowing in Mugu for the past one week, the district's tourist attraction Rara Lake has drawn hundreds of domestic and foreign tourists of late. Playing in the snow with the place's serene beauty in the background is a major attraction for them.
January 24, 2018 10:08 am
KATHMANDU, Jan 24: Unexpected snowfall in mountainous regions of the country is due to westerly wind that entered Nepal yesterday. Across the country, there has been snowfall in mountainous regions of Manag, Mustang, Jumla and Humla, Dolakha. Parts of the southern plains saw hailstorms after rainfall. Kathmandu valley also is experiencing rainfall since early morning.
January 23, 2018 14:40 pm
DAVOS, Jan 23: The global economy and geopolitical tensions are taking a back seat to a more immediate problem at this year's Davos summit of political and business leaders: heavy snow is burying the venue.
January 5, 2018 09:39 am
Building a snowman and having a snowball fight are what we often find ourselves wistfully dreaming of when we see pictures of our friends and family settled in places where snowfall is common during winters doing just that.
June 28, 2017 01:10 am
POKHARA, June 28: Mahesh Serchan recently lost his 15 yaks in a single day leopard. The wild beast had hunted his cattle even earlier. But this was the first time he lost so many cattle in a go. It has left the local of Kowang village of Thasang Village Municipality completely devastated. “How would I recover now? They were my most valuable assets,” he lamented. “Snow leopard has victimized us repeatedly,” he added.
March 18, 2017 11:27 am
PAANCHTHAR, March 18: Paanchthar's normal life was given an unusual weather-triggered brake after snow and hail storm on Friday.
March 14, 2017 11:59 am
LAMJUNG (Besisahar), March 14: The Army and Police forces have been mobilized to smoothly operate snow-disrupted vehicular movement in Manang – a trans-Himalayan district.
March 10, 2017 08:17 am
Jumla has been affected by snow fall from Friday morning. The snow fall has been preceded by two consecutive rainy days.
January 30, 2017 00:30 am
JUMLA, Jan 30: Snow-fed irrigation ponds installed in Jumla district have managed to collect considerable amount of snow due to the recent snowfall. Farmers would be able to use the pond for irrigation purpose.
January 18, 2017 00:10 am
KATHMANDU, Jan 18: With an objective to share knowledge and increase management planning capacity for snow leopard range countries, a two-day workshop 'Global Snow Leopard and Ecosystem Protection Program (GSLEP) has kicked off in Kathmandu on Tuesday.
January 8, 2017 10:13 am
JUMLA, Jan 8: The Karnali region is witnessing intense snowfall from early in the morning which has put normal life out of gear with plummeting temperature.
January 2, 2017 10:41 am
DHADING, Jan 2: Areas in the rural northern part of the district have received snowfall and hailstorm.
January 1, 2017 16:58 pm
MYAGDI, Jan 1: Mustang district has received snowfall since Sunday afternoon. Life has been hit hard following the snowfall in all 16 VDCs of the district including Jomsom, the district headquarters.
December 22, 2016 18:34 pm
The Algerian town of Ain Sefra, deep in the dry, hot Sahara desert was hit by a freak snowfall on December 19. It’s the first time snow has fallen in the region in 37 years.
October 24, 2016 01:00 am
KATHMANDU, Oct 24: Nepal has been losing a number of snow leopards mostly to poaching and retaliatory killings, according to a recently published report of TRAFFIC, a wildlife trade monitoring network.
October 22, 2016 02:10 am
KATHMANDU, Oct 22: The government is all set to bring in a new Snow Leopard Conservation Action Plan for Nepal, aimed at safeguarding one of the most endangered wildlife species in a more effective way.
August 1, 2016 11:08 am
MUSTANG, Aug 1: A total of 17 snow leopards have been found at the trans-Himalayan district of Mustang.