Nepal

KATHMANDU, Dec 2 (NNN-XINHUA) – Himalaya Airlines today launched its inaugural flight from the Nepali capital, Kathmandu to Shanghai, China’s economic hub.

The H9780 flight, took off in the morning with 141 passengers aboard, and the H9781 flight is scheduled to return to Kathmandu with 95 passengers onboard, this evening.

The airlines is operating a round trip from Kathmandu to Shanghai on an A320 plane every Saturday, while two flights have been scheduled per week from Dec 20, to Jan 27, 2024.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepalese authorities said their focus was on finding survivors after a strong earthquake shook districts in northwestern Nepal just before midnight Friday, killing at least 128 people and injuring dozens more.

The death toll was expected to rise as communications were still cut off in many places, officials said Saturday.

“The priority is to find the survivors and take them to hospital,” said regional police chief, Bhim Dhakal, “while we recover bodies of the deceased.”

KATHMANDU, Oct 23 (NNN-XINHUA) – At least six people were killed and three others injured, after a jeep plunged into a river in south-central Nepal’s Palpa district.

The jeep was heading towards Rani Mahal, a famous tourist destination in the district, when it skidded off the road, and landed in a narrow gorge.

The driver was injured after jumping off the jeep before it plunged into the river, said Raj Kumar Chapagain, a district police officer.

KATHMANDU, Oct 22 (NNN-XINHUA) – Three earthquakes above magnitude 4, jolted Dhading district this morning, sending tremors to Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital city.

One temblor of magnitude 6.1 struck at 7:39 a.m. local time, said Lok Bijay Adhikari, from Nepal’s National Earthquake Monitoring and Research Centre (NEMRC).

The quakes have left a few houses damaged in Dhading, but no casualties have been reported yet, Assistant Chief District Officer, Hum Nath Parajuli told Xinhua.

KATHMANDU, Oct 12 (NNN-XINHUA) – The Nepali government is sending a plane to bring back Nepalis stranded in the latest round of Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a minister said yesterday.

A cabinet meeting decided to send a chartered flight of Nepal Airlines, for the rescue operation led by Foreign Minister, Narayan Prakash Saud, and the plane left for Israel last night.

350 Nepali nationals have registered with the Nepali Embassy in Tel Aviv, to return home.

KATHMANDU, Oct 10 (NNN-XINHUA) – The Nepali government decided yesterday, to observe a one-day national mourning for 10 Nepali students killed in the latest Palestinian-Israeli conflicts.

A cabinet meeting also decided to lower the national flag at half-mast during the national mourning today.

“The government has also decided to provide one million rupees (about 7,520 U.S. dollars) to family members of each of the deceased,” Rekha Sharma, minister for communication and information technology, told the media.

KATHMANDU, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Two earthquakes rocked western Nepal on Tuesday, injuring 17 people, damaging homes and triggering a landslide that blocked a major highway, authorities said.

The landslide after the quakes of magnitude 6.3 and 5.3 in the district of Bajhang, bordering India, blocked the road to the southern plains, interior ministry official Rama Acharya told Reuters.

The temblors, centred in Talkot and Chainpur, struck at an interval of about 30 minutes.

KATHMANDU, Sept 9 (NNN-XINHUA) – Seven people were killed and 27 others injured, when a passenger bus crashed into a truck last night, in Banke district of western Nepal, local police said, today.

The bus, with 41 people on board, hit a truck parked on the East-West Highway, as it was carrying tourists back from a visit to neighbouring Dang district, said Sundar Tiwari, a police officer from Banke.

Kathmandu, Jul 23 (PTI) Nepal and China have remained good neighbours since ancient times, President Ramchandra Paudel told a Chinese leader during their meeting here on Sunday.

Yuan Jiajun, a politburo member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), arrived here on Sunday on a three-day visit to Nepal, leading a 26-member delegation.

Yuan called on Paudel at the Office of the President, Sheetal Niwas, and they discussed bilateral relations and mutual interests, the president's office said in a statement.

KATHMANDU, Jul 11 (NNN-XINHUA) – A helicopter carrying five foreign passengers and the pilot, crashed in a mountain district of Nepal today, but the fate of those aboard was not known yet, a local official said.

The ill-fated chopper, belonging to the private Manang Air, lost contact with the ground, 15 minutes after taking off from Surke, in Solukhumbu district, for the capital city of Kathmandu, Solukhumbu’s chief district officer, Basant Bhattarai, told Xinhua.