A 2-year-old child has been appointed Nepal’s next living Goddess Kumari, following an ancient selection process. The little girl, Aaryatara Shakya, had to sit through an age-old ritual where she ...

Inside Cafe Cheeno in Patan, Mike Krajniak sat relaxed and open. After 40 years in Nepal, the American industrial designer ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Kumari, a young girl who is revered by both Hindus and Buddhists in Nepal as a living goddess, left her temple palace and was driven around the center of the capital in a ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal — A 2-year-old girl chosen as Nepal’s new living goddess was carried by family members from their home in a Kathmandu alley to a temple palace Tuesday during the country's longest and ...

The story of Bindu Chaudhary, a young journalist in Nepal saving lives from devastating flooding through her radio broadcasts.

UNHCR and its partners are laying the groundwork for the large-scale resettlement of refugees from Bhutan living in Nepal's camps by kicking off a mass information campaign to help them make an ...

Iraq remains legally closed to Nepali workers, with the Department of Foreign Employment keeping the country on its list of ...

India announced recently that it was ‘close to victory in its fight against poverty’, with only 2.2% of its population living below the World Bank-defined extreme poverty line. Ten years ago, it was ...

Figures tell one story, the reality is something different. Nepal’s macroeconomic indicators are rosy: foreign exchange reserves can sustain 1 year and 3 months of imports, remittances are up, and ...