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Despite Protests, Mass Animal Sacrifice To Go On As Planned in Nepal November 20, 2009 Katmandu, Nepal -- A Hindu festival in which thousands of animals are expected to be sacrificed will go ahead as scheduled in southern Nepal despite protests, organizers said Friday. The Gadhimai festival, celebrated every five years, is attended by many Hindus from India as well as from Nepal. More than 200,000 buffaloes, pigs, goats, chickens and pigeons are expected to be slaughtered this year on Nov. 24 and 25. Organizers said they will not bow to "interference" from animal rights and religious groups that have...

KATMANDU: Nepal's Chief Election Official said that Maoists have won half of the directly elected seats in elections for a Constitution-drafting Assembly. The ex-rebels who are formally known as Communist Party of Nepal (Maoists) have won 120 of the 240 directly elected seats. Counting is continuing for three seats, but the Maoists are not expected to win those. The directly elected seats make up only about 40 per cent of the total seats in the Assembly, but the Maoists' win of half of these seats shows their level of support. Most of the additional seats are to be allotted...

Mt. Everest Avalanche Injures Climbers Friday, May 06, 2005 KATMANDU, Nepal — Medics in a makeshift tent hospital on Mount Everest (search) on Friday treated six climbers injured in an avalanche, while rescuers hoping to evacuate the victims in helicopters were turned back by snowfall and strong wind. No one was killed by the avalanche early Thursday, which swept through the first of four camps set up between Everest's base camp and the mountain's 29,035-foot summit. Six climbers received injuries ranging from bruises to a possible broken back, reports from the mountain said. The victims' nationalities were still unclear. They...

KATMANDU, Nepal - King Gyanendra dismissed Nepal's government on Tuesday and declared a state of emergency, taking control of the Himalayan kingdom for the second time in three years.

VIOLENCE erupted across the Nepalese capital Katmandu yesterday in response to the killing on Tuesday of 12 Nepalese workers who had been kidnapped in Iraq. Angry mobs attacked Muslims and overseas recruitment agencies, blaming them for the murders. Shots were fired by guards at the Egyptian embassy when a mob attacked the building. Mosques were also targeted. One Kashmiri shopkeeper was reported to have been killed and another man was said to have fallen to his death from the roof of a building he was attacking. Police lobbed tear-gas shells to break up more than 1,000 demonstrators who burned tyres...

From AP - Off-duty Nepalese guard of U.S. Embassy in Katmandu shot dead KATMANDU, Nepal, Nov 09, 2002 (AP WorldStream via COMTEX) -- Three unidentified gunmen shot dead an off-duty Nepalese guard of the U.S. Embassy in Katmandu on Saturday, police said. The guard, identified as Deepak Pokhrel, was shot in his house, about 5 kilometers (3 miles) from the embassy. Police said they were investigating the case but had not arrested anyone. Nepal has been wracked by a six-year Maoist insurgency that has left more than 7,000 people dead. It was not immediately clear if the shooting was related...