A flydubai flight from Kathmandu to Dubai experienced a bird strike during takeoff but returned on Monday to the United Arab Emirates, the company said. "Our experienced flight crew followed standard operating procedure and …
Holi, the Hindu festival of colour, is now celebrated around the world, marked by raucous parties where people throw and smear coloured powder on each other. The festival, the celebrations for which will begin on March 8 in many parts of India, signifies the arrival of spring and, for many Hindus, the triumph of good over evil.
All the 72 people aboard the plane of Nepalese Yeti Airlines that crashed on Sunday have died, Pemba Sherpa, a spokesman for the airline, said. "All died: 68 passengers and four crew members. Everyone on board is dead," he …
Today, an ATR-72 aircraft flying from Kathmandu crashed in the city of Pokhara in Nepal, The Kathmandu Post reports. This happened between the old and new Pokhara airport. Yeti Airlines's turboprop passenger ATR 72 flew to …
Russian climber Pavel Kostrikin died at Camp I of Mount Everest, the first reported death of a foreigner on the world's highest peak in the current climbing season that began in March, a Nepali official said on Sunday. Kostrikin, …
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Three Russian climbers have reportedly gone missing from Nepal's Annapurna I peak (8,091 meters), located in the north-central part of the country. The climbers have been identified as Sergey Kondrashkin, Alexander Luthokin and …
Ang Rita Sherpa, the first person to climb Mount Everest 10 times, has died after a long illness, his family has said, in what fellow sherpas called a major loss to Nepal and the climbing community, The Guardian reports. All …
Nepal has closed all of its Himalayan peaks including Mount Everest this climbing season because of fears of the coronavirus outbreak, Tourism Minister Yogesh Bhattarai said. According to him, expeditions to all peaks in the …
A team of four Sherpas is setting off on Monday to attempt a record winter ascent of Mount Everest in just five days, which would also be the first winter climb of the peak in more than quarter of a century. The last successful winter …
A Dubai-bound flight from Nepal was delayed by nearly 10 hours after the pilot was found to be under the influence of alcohol, officials said. The flydubai flight eventually left Katmandu with a different crew. Crew members …
Two foreign climbers attempting to scale Mount Everest have died on the world's highest peak, a Nepal mountaineering official said. Members of their expedition teams reported a Japanese climber died Monday and a Macedonian died on …
Denis Tyurin on the results of the 6th International Forum 'Moscow Business Dialogue of the SCO'
