Positive news from Nepal
VIDEO: “Reborn Buddha” Reemerges
After three years of allegedly fasting and meditating in a Nepal jungle, an 18-year-old revered by some as a reincarnation of Buddha meets his followers.
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Rare One-Horned Rhino Bouncing Back in Nepal
Elephants, GPS, and digital cameras helped conservationists conduct a new rhino census that shows the endangered animals are rebounding in at least one national park.
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Guiding Himalayan treks, Nepali woman scales mountains of social taboosPokhara, Nepal - Kamala Biswakarma wears the pants in her family. |
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Millions of stateless people to benefit from recent breakthroughs, says UN agencyUnited Nations - The United Nations refugee agency has welcomed as “major breakthroughs” recent decisions by Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka to grant citizenship to some three million people who live in the three Asian nations without any official identity. |
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Nepal: UN to provide emergency food for 60,000 flood victims for three monthsThe Eastern Terai, Nepal - The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is sending up to three months worth of emergency rations to some 60,000 flood victims in Nepal after incessant rains over the past three weeks wrought havoc across the Himalayan country. |
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McGrath honoured for saving climber’s lifeKathmandu, Nepal - Sudbury's Meagan McGrath has been honoured for her role in saving a climber in trouble near the summit of Mount Everest. |
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Artist Turns Everest Trash Into TreasureBrunswick, Maine - Thousands of adventurers have been drawn to Mount Everest by the challenge of climbing to the top of the world. Jeff Clapp was drawn by the trash they leave behind. Inspired by a documentary about Everest's rubbish, Clapp traveled to Nepal and brought a load of discarded oxygen bottles back in 2004. |
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Nepal’s civil war ends as Maoists, government ink peace deal
KATHMANDU (AFP) - The impoverished Himalayan nation of Nepal has entered a new era as Maoist insurgents and the central government signed a peace deal ending a decade of civil war that has claimed at least 12,500 lives.
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News from the Indian Sub-Continent
- Pakistan and India strike new visa deal easing travel
- Hurdle cleared on total ban on child labour in India
- Buddha tree alive and healthy at age 2,500
- Maldives creates world’s biggest marine reserve
- New Solar Program From SunEdison Aims to Eradicate Darkness in India
- State of Himalayan Glaciers Less Alarming Than Feared
- Indian Man, Jadav Payeng, Single-Handedly Plants A 1,360 Acre Forest In Assam
- Pulling children out of Nepal’s prisons
- New sanctuaries declared for Asia’s freshwater dolphins
- No rhinos poached in Nepal last year