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Kathmandu: Jungle safari and walk has been opened for the visitors in Shuklaphanta National Park. The park office announced this through a public notice. The visitors should follow the health safety guidelines like mandatorily wearing the face masks and using sanitizer while entering the park and maintaining physical distance. Similarly,…

Bardia: The Bardiya National Park (BNP), which remained closed for long time owing to COVID-19, has allowed safari, adopting strict measure of health standard. Travelers from the country and abroad were banned in the BNP since March 20 citing the coronavirus pandemic. Now, after people are allowed entry for safari,…

All three district administration offices of Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur decided to suspend the non-essential services keeping in view of contagious  deadly contagion. While, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur district administration have shut down their services, the Kathmandu district administration has authorized the head o the government offices concerned to decide whether…

Kathmandu:The first day of Nepal’s great national festival well known as “Ghatasthapana” has began on Saturday  which falls on the first day of the bright half of the lunar calendar. As the day of Ghatasthapana begins all Hindu religion believers worship an oil-fed lamp which is considered to be most…

Kathmandu: The Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Yogesh Kumar Bhattarai has said that Nepal’s tourism industry has  suffered gross monthly loss of 10 billion due to Covid-19 pandemic. Minister Bhattarai said so on Thursday while addressing a virtual program hosted under the coordination of Pokhara tourism council to…

Kathmandu: The expedition team of Bahrain’s Prince Sheikh Nasser Mohamed Hamad Mohamed Ali Khalifa has successfully climbed the 8,163-meter-high Mount Manaslu. According to the Seven Summit Treks, which is managing the ascent, the Prince reached the summit of Mt. Manaslu at 6:10 am on Thursday. Earlier, an 18-member team of…

As many as 1,097 Nepali nationals stranded in gulf countries were also repatriated on Wednesday. The returnees include 498 Nepali migrant workers from Qatar, 156 from the United Arab Emirates, 353 from Malaysia and 91 from Saudi Arabia. All returnees are also reported to have been placed at the Holding…

Kathmandu: Simrik Air has been permitted to operate rescue operations to rescue the Covid-19 infected persons from now onwards. The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal formally permitted Simrik Air to operate chopper rescue flights for COVID-19 patient as Coronavirus cases are increasing across the country according to the Aviation Authority.…

If you are just a beginner for climbing mountains in Nepal, then you may have to consider about the right time, season, and weather conditions to climb the lower altitude mountains before attempting to summit the higher mountains. Lower altitude mountain climbing may prove your prowess to withstand the technical…

File photo: Mountaineer Maya Gurung’s team while approaching the Jugal Himala peak in 2018. Chautara: A seven member expedition team led by Mt Everest climber Sharmila Lama has moved from Kathmandu on Tuesday with seven days schedule to summit the Gualzen peak as high as 6151meters which lies in Jugal…