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  • General strike freezes Nepal as constitution deadline looms

  • KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Thousands of schools closed, roads were empty and businesses shuttered across Nepal on Sunday at the start of a three-day general strike over a state boundary dispute that could push lawmakers past a May 27 deadline to write a new constitution. At least two dozen vehicles were damaged by stone-throwing activists, police said, and 46 people were detained in the capital Kathmandu, where children played football on normally traffic-choked streets. Instability has plagued Nepal since the end of a Maoist-led civil war in 2006, and the subsequent overthrow of the monarchy. ...
  • Nepal "blind" eatery lights way for visually impaired

  • KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A line of diners, holding on to the shoulders of the person in front of them, enters the pitch dark hall at Nepal's first blind restaurant, which treats guests to food they can smell, touch and taste but not see. The 16-seat dining room has been heavily curtained from ceiling to floor in black, and the guests grope their way to the table, guided deftly by the waiters -- all of whom are visually impaired. ...
  • Meeting Bailey

  • Meeting BaileyChandra Bahadur Dangi (C), the 72-year-old Nepali crowned the "world's shortest man" by Guinness World Records, and his nephew Dolakh Dangi (R) meet Bailey the golden brush-tail possum at Wildlife World in Sydney. Dangi, who is just 54.6 centimetres tall, is in Australia for a week of promotional engagements.



  • Plane crashes in Nepal, killing 15

  • A small plane crashed as it attempted to land in a mountainous area of Nepal on Monday, killing 14 of the 21 people on board, an aviation official said.
  • 15 Die in Nepal Plane Crash

  • Fifteen people, including 13 Indian nationals, were killed when an Agni Air plane crashed on Monday while attempting to land at Jomson Airport in northern Nepal.
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