Provides the latest RSS feeds for Nepal News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Nepal News.net http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/cat/7399985502eaed63/ en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 20:48:20 -0400 Mon, 20 May 2013 20:48:20 -0400 30 In a bid to prove to the world that "disability was not inability", Sudharshan Gautam, a Nepali-Canadian citizen, became the first amputee to climb Mount Everest without the help of prosthetic limbs, officials said Monday. "We received information that Gautam, who has no hands, climbed Mount Everest," Dipendra Paudel, an official at Nepal's mountain department under the ministry of tourism and ... http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/sid/214633440/scat/7399985502eaed63 Mon, 20 May 2013 09:50:02 -0400 http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/sid/214633440/scat/7399985502eaed63 Even before Forbes placed Binod Chaudhary in its 2013 Annual Global Rich List, his love affair with Sri Lanka had begun with a foray into Colombo in 2000, when he acquired a substantial stake in the Taj Lanka Hotels, Sri Lanka. This longstanding investor of Sri Lanka has been travelling to the country ever since and displayed tremendous market confidence, even during the long drawn conflict ... http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/sid/214642964/scat/7399985502eaed63 Mon, 20 May 2013 17:03:19 -0400 http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/sid/214642964/scat/7399985502eaed63 Nepal A British mountaineer's interview with the BBC on his smartphone from the top of Mount Everest has stirred controversy, with the Nepalese government calling the broadcast "illegal".British mountaineer Daniel Hughes gave a live video interview to the BBC on his smartphone from the 8,848-metres peak on Sunday morning."This is the world's first live video call - ... http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/sid/214632313/scat/7399985502eaed63 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:29:13 -0400 http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/sid/214632313/scat/7399985502eaed63 lofty peak of Everest witnessed 'height' of Indo-Pak friendship on Sunday when two sets of siblings from both countries reached there almost ... http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/sid/214632426/scat/7399985502eaed63 Mon, 20 May 2013 08:22:22 -0400 http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/sid/214632426/scat/7399985502eaed63 Nepal's minister for information and communications Madhav Prasad Paudel has said the government is committed to improving its fibre-optic links in the country, specifically through the deployment of optical networks along highways and trunk roads. e-Kantipur notes that the state's backing of the plan comes at a time when its efforts to roll out the district optical fibre project are ... http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/sid/214631209/scat/7399985502eaed63 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:42:25 -0400 http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/sid/214631209/scat/7399985502eaed63 (21 mins ago) A British mountaineer's interview with the UK state broadcaster BBC on his smart phone from the top of Mount Everest has stirred controversy in Nepal where the government is calling the broadcast ';illegal'', officials said. Mountaineer Daniel Hughes went live on BBC via his smart phone from the 8,848-meter peak on Sunday morning. It was also seen on Asia ... http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/sid/214631213/scat/7399985502eaed63 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:22:42 -0400 http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/sid/214631213/scat/7399985502eaed63 A BRITISH mountaineer's interview with the BBC on his smartphone from the top of Mount Everest has stirred controversy with the Nepalese government calling the broadcast "illegal", officials said Monday. British mountaineer Daniel Hughes gave a live video interview to the BBC on his smartphone from the 8,848-metres (29,029-feet) peak on Sunday morning. "This is the world's ... http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/sid/214631217/scat/7399985502eaed63 Mon, 20 May 2013 07:16:17 -0400 http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/sid/214631217/scat/7399985502eaed63 A Chinese climber, Xiaoshi Li, 58, died in wee hours of Monday while attempting to climb Lhotse mountain in Sagarmatha region, expedition organizer said."Li died due to sickness on his way to Lhotse peak," Nivesh Karki, manager of Seven Summit Treks Pvt. Ltd., the expedition organizer said. Li had fallen sick two days ago."Mr. Xiaoshi Li, citizen of Republic of China got altitude ... http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/sid/214626277/scat/7399985502eaed63 Mon, 20 May 2013 03:53:03 -0400 http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/sid/214626277/scat/7399985502eaed63 WWF Nepal celebrates 20 years of conservation partnerships WWF Nepal celebrated its 20 years of office (1993-2013) by recognising partnerships, from the national to the grassroots level, that helped shape Nepal’s conservation landscape. At a special ceremony organized to mark this day in the buffer zone of Chitwan National Park in Nepal’s Terai Arc Landscape on Sunday, more than 70 ... http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/sid/214622920/scat/7399985502eaed63 Sun, 19 May 2013 23:21:50 -0400 http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php/sid/214622920/scat/7399985502eaed63