Pindas are balls of cooked rice together with ghee and black sesame seeds. Hindus, mainly upper castes, offer these rice ...

Pooja Hegde is cute in an elegant purple saree with intricate golden embroidery. She accessorizes with a statement necklace, earrings, and bangles, Pooja, known for major titles like Radhe Shyam ...

The Sikkim Bhutia Lepcha Apex Committee (SIBLAC) has made an appeal to the Government of Nepal to immediately halt all mountaineering expeditions to Mount Khangchendzonga from its territory.

Nepal doesn’t have rules on how many days climbers must spend acclimatizing or making practice climbs. The permits to climb Everest, which cost $11,000 each, are valid for 90 days.

Xu Zhu Oyuan, the youngest Chinese climber to summit Mount Everest, receives an honorary certificate from Badri Prasad Pandey, Nepal's Minister for Culture, Tourism, and Civil Aviation, during the ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Nepal's government said on Tuesday it has a “duty to protect” the Himalayas from the risks presented by climate change and the growing numbers of climbers ...