In and around Gorkha, the capital of one of Nepal’s hardest hit areas, relief agencies say they are coordinating efforts more closely.
The town was near the epicenter of the 7.8-magnitude earthquake, which one week ago Saturday shook this impoverished Himalayan nation and killed more than 6,200 people. Read More »
One of the biggest aftershocks from Nepal’s deadly earthquake could hit the impoverished Himalayan nation in the coming months as more of its struggling citizens leave home to find work abroad. Read More »
India’s government has rejected the findings of a report by the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom that criticized the treatment of religious minorities since it came to power last year. Read More »
The burger joint has decided to drop beef from the menu for the first time ever. It will not serve the standard Dave’s Hot ‘n Juicy Triple or any other burgers with beef when it opens its first Indian outlet in a Delhi suburb on Wednesday. Read More »
Rishi Khanal was pinned beneath concrete slab for more than 80 hours, drank urine to survive. Read More »
Amid the devastation and suffering caused by the immense earthquake in Nepal in which over 5,500 people died on Saturday some stories of hope have emerged. Here are five of the most remarkable. Read More »
The sons of the first men to summit Mount Everest met by chance on Saturday as they sheltered from an avalanche triggered at the world’s highest peak by an earthquake in Nepal. Read More »
The NepalPhotoProject, a group of Indian and Nepali photographers on the ground in Nepal, was formed hours after news of the tremor broke as a place to share images and information about the quake. Read More »
Even the predicted below-normal rainfall poses a threat to the mountainous region that is already prone to landslides. Read More »
Poverty, religious beliefs, social customs and the mindset of the Indian society, among other things, are some of the reasons why a man is permitted to rape his wife in India, according to the Ministry of Home Affairs. Read More »
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