Kathmandu - A wild tiger fitted with a global positioning system (GPS) collar was translocated for the first time in Nepal, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) confirmed.
Three people including two minors have died after suffering from a severe bout of diarrhea in far-western Nepalgunj so far.
Jasmin Halwai,5, of Salyanibag, Nepalgunj -5 and Taniya Halwai, 5 of Nepalgunj-4 died as they were being rushed to a nearby hospital while Kalawati Budhathoki, 65, of Tulsipur in Dang District died while undergoing treatment at Teaching Hospital.
The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Government of Finland signed an agreement on 15th December on a collaborative project to establish a regional flood information system in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan region.
In a bid to save endangered vultures, a campaign has been launched in Chitwan to make the district free from the livestock painkiller Diclofenac, the veterinary drug blamed for killing the scavenging birds, state-owned news agency RSS reported Sunday.
Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal has addressed the international climate change summit, COP 15, in the Danish capital Copenhagen, Wednesday. PM Nepal urged developed nations to provide sustainable and long-term financial support to vulnerable countries like Nepal to preserve the white mountains and green earth.
Tests have confirmed the flu spreading in Parbat and Baglung since last two weeks are mostly swine flu, Nagarik daily reported quoting health officials. Nine out of 12 samples collected from Kushma bazaar have tested positive to Pandemic Influenza H1N1.
Five of them were army men working at Naya Bhairavi Dal Battalion based in Kushma Bazaar, district headquarters of Parbat.
The Swiss government has agreed to provide Rs 292 million for the Rural Health Development Project (RHDP) phase VII, reports RSS.
Finance Ministry joint secretary Lal Mani Joshi and Elisabeth Von Capeller of Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) signed the agreement at the Finance Ministry.
Six phases of the project assisted by the Swiss government were completed on July 15, 200
Poachers have killed two rhinos and robbed them off their precious horns in a span of ten days in Chitwan National Park (CNP), Nagarik daily reported.
A male rhino was found in Temple Tiger area on September 2, while a female rhino was found in Krishnasar Community Forest of Nawalparasi on September 12. Both rhinos were without their horns.
