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Dawa Steven Sherpa, a young climber from Nepal, is hoping to promote eco-friendly climbing on Mt. Everest by deploying toilets fashioned from a plastic bucket. The U.S.-designed bucket, which weighs 2.4 pounds and stands 11 inches tall, has an opening that is eight inches in diameter. To construct the toilet, Sherpa and his team used a plastic bucket and a gas-impervious bag to safely contain and neutralize human waste and trap odor."I want to promote anything that manages human...
Former Nepalese King Gyanendra and his family must pay overdue electricity bills of about $1 million or face power cuts in their palaces and homes. The Nepal Electricity Authority has given the former royal family 15 days to settle the bills relating to several of their palaces and residences, Kantipur Online reported, quoting sources. The current Maoist-led government helped abolish the Himalayan state's 240-year-old monarchy in May when Nepal became a republic. The bills, totaling about...
Japanese climbers said on Tuesday they had found footprints on a mountain in western Nepal they think belonged to an abominable snowman or Yeti.Kuniaki Yagihara, a member of the Yeti Project Japan, said they identified three footprints that looked like that of human beings in Kathmandu. The group returned from the mountain with photographs of the footprints.However, the climbers, equipped with long-lens cameras, video cameras and telescopes, said that they did not see or take any photographs...
Nepali gov't air crash probe panel starts field work KATHMANDU, Oct. 12 (Xinhua) -- The probe commission formed by Nepali government to investigate into the causes of the air crash in eastern Nepali has begun its field work, local newspaper The Kathmandu Post reported on Sunday. "We spent three hours at the site," the report quoted Nagendra Ghimire, joint secretary at the Ministry of Tourism and Civil Aviation and member-secretary of the five member commission. "This site visit is part of...
Nepalese authorities say the 18 people killed in the crash of a Yeti Airlines twin-engine Otter plane included 12 German nationals and two Australians. The plane, with 19 aboard, went down Wednesday after hitting a cliff and catching fire while approaching the Lukla airport near Mount Everest, CNN had reported earlier. Nepalnews.com quoted officials at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, from where the plane had taken off, that only the pilot, Surendra Kunwar, survived. He was...
Urgent: 15 die as Nepali plane catches fire KATHMANDU, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- A Nepali Yeti Airlines domestic plane on Wednesday morning caught fire while landing at Lukla airport in the east, and 15 foreigners died, local media reported. (c) 2008 Xinhua News Agency - CEIS. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All rights Reserved.
Text of report by privately-owned Nepalnews.com website on 8 October A Yeti Airlines Twin Otter has crashed on final approach at the Tenzing-Hillary airport, Lukla, killing at least 18 people, mostly foreign nationals, Wednesday morning [8 October]. According to officials at the Tribhuvan International Airport and the airline company, only one crew member, the pilot - Suraj Kuwar, survived the tragic accident and has been flown to Kathmandu for medical treatment. The Twin Otter that took...
Text of report by privately-owned Nepalese eKantipur.com website on 6 October [by Milan Mani Sharma] Kathmandu, 6 October: Here is good news for automobile dealers and riders. Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) is planning to introduce high-octane petrol in the market soon, which will give better mileage and ensure engine longevity compared to the existing gasoline. "Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) [the monopoly supplier] has agreed to provide us 91-octane petrol for domestic marketing, and we wish...
Text of report by Sangam Prasai headlined "Pipeline project to reduce petroleum prices in Nepal" published by Nepalese newspaper The Rising Nepal on 28 September Kathmandu, 27 September: Nepal-India oil pipeline project, which was mooted four years ago, is expected to gain momentum if Nepal government released funds to Indian Oil Corporation to prepare a Detail Project Report (DPR) of the scheme. "The project which will reduce oil transportation cost to Nepal by as much as 50 per cent has...
Indo-Nepal Power Summit 2008 begins in Nepali capital KATHMANDU, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) -- The third Indo-Nepal Power Summit 2008 will begin in Nepali capital Kathmandu on Tuesday to explore the possibilities of hydropower project cooperation between Nepal and India. According to The Himalayan Times daily, Deputy Prime Minister Bam Dev Gautam will inaugurate the two-day summit. As many as 300 delegates from Nepal and India are expected to participate in the meeting. Indian Minister of State...
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The wild water buffalo (Bubalus arnee) is a member of the Bovidae family that is native to Southeast Asia. It is also known as the Asiatic buffalo and the Asian buffalo. Its range includes Nepal, India, Cambodia, and Thailand and once included other areas like Laos and Pakistan, but populations there have gone extinct. In India, populations are mainly restricted to protected areas including Manas and Dibru-Saikhowa National Parks and D'Ering Memorial Wildlife Sanctuary, among other areas....
Symbol: PHNE11 Group: Lichen Family: Physciaceae Growth Habit: Lichenous Native Status: NA N Synonyms: PHNE12 Phaeophyscia nepalensis (Poelt) D.D. Awasthi PHNE13 Physcia nepalensis Poelt Classification: Kingdom Fungi – Fungi Division Ascomycota – Sac fungi Class Ascomycetes Order Lecanorales Family Physciaceae Genus Physciella Essl. – physciella...
The Himalayan Quail, (Ophrysia superciliosa), is feared extinct as it was last verified in 1876. By 1904, this quail was considered very scarce, and to add to its scarecity, only two locations (northwest India and the western Himilayas) of the species are known. Even with numerous searches, their survival can not be counted out since they may be hard to spot. This medium-sized quail belongs to the pheasant family. Unconfirmed records have been noted from 1952 up to 2003. There is a...
The Greater Yellownape (Picus flavinucha) is a species of bird found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, and Vietnam. Its natural habitats are subtropical and tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist mountain regions. The adult is large and has a prominent yellow-crested nape and throat. It is mainly a dark olive-green bird with gray underparts. The crown is brownish and the flight feathers are...
The Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus) also known as the Impeyan Monal or Impeyan Pheasant, is a species of bird found in the pheasant family Phasianidae. It is native to eastern Afghanistan through the Himalayas including Kashmir region of Northern Pakistan, parts of India, Nepal, southern Tibet and Bhutan. There may be an occurrence in Burma as well. Its habitat is upper temperate oak-conifer forests scattered with open grassy slopes, cliffs and alpine meadows. Their normal elevation...
