The documentary of the first DJ performance at the Everest Base Camp, ‘Soundtrek: A Journey to Mount Everest’ is screening for the first time at Moksh, Jhamsikhel on Friday.

BIRATNAGAR, July 29: Chief Minister of the Province-1, Sherdhan Rai underlined the need to initiate development efforts in a way to prepare the tangible base for prosperity.

KATHMANDU, May 31: Sita Air has said that it will operate all its flights to Karnali province from Surkhet Airport from June 29 onwards.

KATHMANDU, May 27: A fine dining pop up restaurant has come into operation at the Everest Base Camp as an attempt to set a Guinness World Record of a pop-up restaurant at the highest altitude.

KATHMANDU, May 23: Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has said the unification between two communist parties has created a base for stability, peace, good governance and prosperity in the country.

There is good news for people who want to visit Annapurna Base Camp, as a new trekking route has been established from Narchyang of Myagdi district to the base camp. The new route runs along the bank of Nilgiri River and takes almost three days to reach the base camp. Tourism entrepreneurs have said that this is a safe trekking route and they are expecting to attract more tourists by using this route.

TEHRAN, April 15: The US army set up a new military base in the oil-rich region in Eastern Deir Ezzur and dispatched more equipment to areas near the Syrian Army's defense lines in spite of Washington's claims of imminent pullout from the war-hit country, a militant-affiliated website reported on Sunday.

BEIRUT, April 9: The Latest on the situation on Syria (all times local):

SOLUKHUMBU, March 30: With the mountaineering season approaching, Nepali and foreign climbers have started moving upward from Namche toward the Everest Base Camp, which lies at an altitude of 5,364 meters. So far, four groups have obtained permits for climbing Mt Everest, the highest peak of the world.

KATHMANDU, Jan 16: ‘KRI’ actress Aditee Budathoki interacted with the media at the meet and greet event in Kathmandu on Sunday.

KATHMANDU, Nov 2: It has been found that helicopter companies are operating commercial flights to Annapurna Base Camp without taking permission from the Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP).

WHITE BEACH NAVAL FACILITY, JAPAN, Oct 30: A U.S. Navy ship carrying two sailors it rescued from their storm-battered sailboat in the Pacific docked Monday at an American naval base in Japan.

KATHMANDU, Oct 26: The Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) has started homework to calculate Gross Domestic Products (GDP) in a more realistic manner by covering newest economic activities as well as taking new base rates into consideration.

CARACAS, August 6: Venezuelan ruling party chief Diosdado Cabello says Sunday that there was a “terrorist” attack at a military base controlled by troops loyal to the government and several people were arrested.

KATHMANDU, July 18: The government has expressed its commitment to expand the tax base and to reform the tax system so as to give momentum to the economy.

BEIJING, July 12: China on Tuesday dispatched members of its People's Liberation Army to the Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti to man the rising Asian giant's first overseas military base, a key part of a wide-ranging expansion of the role of China's armed forces.

One dead in Everest base camp

May 28, 2017 18:57 pm

SOLUKHUMBU, May 28: A person has been found dead in the base camp who had been working as a cook.

CAIRO, May  20:  A spokesman for Libya's army says the death toll from a militia attack on an air base in the country's south has increased to 141, including two civilians.

KATHMANDU, May 10: Banks are struggling to attract deposits despite rise in demands for loans.

MYAGDI, May 7: Locals have taken the initiatives to remove the waste piling up at Mt. Dhaulagiri base camp at Mudi of Dhaulagiri rural municipality in Myagdi district since many years.

KATHMANDU, May 6:  Min Bahadur Sherchan, the oldest mountaineer of Nepal, has passed away while climbing Mt. Everest on Saturday afternoon.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF/KABUL, April 22: As many as 140 Afghan soldiers were killed on Friday by Taliban attackers apparently disguised in military uniforms in what would be the deadliest attack ever on an Afghan military base, officials said.

KATHMANDU, April 20: In a shocking revelation, health camps are found being used or rather misused as a means of creating a base for human organ smuggling.

Kids trek to Everest base camp

April 14, 2017 21:15 pm

KATHMANDU, April 14: Eight-year-old Arjun Dhaval Desai and six-year-old Shree Dhaval Desai -- children of Dhaval Bhupendra Desai and Amee Dhaval Desai -- successfully completed their ascent to the base camp (5,364m) of Mt Everest on April 10.

SOLUKHUMBU, April 13: Bio gas is to be produced from human fecal matter collected from the Mount Everest base camp as a better way is sought for its management.

Kathmandu is nearer to New Delhi than Dhangadi, the far-western city of Nepal, due to lack of proper connectivity. The remoteness has not only created trade and economic bottlenecks, but also created political gap between Kathmandu and the rest of the country which has, in some way, weakened national unity and sovereignty.

China will not allow anyone to use Hong Kong as a base for subversion against mainland China or to damage its political stability, Beijing's top official in the territory told state television.

KATHMANDU, Nov 30: A Gurkha soldier serving in the Indian Army was killed after militants attacked an army base near the Indian city of Jammu on Tuesday.

SRINAGAR, Nov 29: Militants attacked an army base near the Indian city of Jammu on Tuesday, killing at least seven security personnel and taking hostages in the boldest assault on a military base in the region in recent months, officials said.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov 12: An explosion at a U.S. airfield in Afghanistan early Saturday killed four people, the head of international forces in the country said.

KATHMANDU, Sept 21: Minister for Forest and Soil Conservation Shanker Bhandari has shared that the Ministry is coming up with a comprehensive plan of actions in a way to develop forest as a source of employment and economic development of the country.

SRINAGAR, India, Sept 18: Suspected rebels using guns and grenades sneaked into a crucial army base in Indian-controlled Kashmir early Sunday and killed at least 17 soldiers in the deadliest attack on a military base in the disputed Himalayan region in recent years, the army said.

KATHMANDU, Sept 14: President Bidya Devi Bhandari termed today's children as the 'base of country's future' with insistence on creating a suitable environment for them to get educated.

KATHMANDU, Sept 6: Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal today stressed the need for taking 'awakened and relevant' initiatives to make a capital base through remittance.

KATHMANDU, Sept 1: Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Jeeban Bahadur Shahi has said infrastructure development was the base for the overall development of tourism sector.