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India renews agreement to export electricity to NepalIndia renews Nepal electricity export pact, allowing 554 MW imports till June. Nepal faces power shortages due to river-based plants. After...
Himalayan glaciers risk losing 75% of their volume by 2100 due to global warmingThe Hindu Kush Himalaya region spans across Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan, encompassing iconi...
Nepal to import additional 90 MW power from India by January-endNepal has signed a power trade agreement with India last year which facilitates the country to import additional power from the southern ne...
Nepal to buy 90 MW more power from IndiaReeling under inordinately long power cuts, Nepal will buy 90 MW of electricity from India by the end of January, an official here said on ...
India will work with Nepal for strengthening bilateral tiesIndia today said it will work closely with Nepal for further strengthening its cooperation in all the areas of mutual interest, including i...
Climate change may lead to severe water shortage in NepalClimate change, increase in agricultural land use and population growth may lead to severe water shortage in Nepal in the coming decades, a...
Pancheshwar project will be completed in ten years: Union Minister Uma BhartiBharti expressed confidence that the project to link Sharda river in Nepal with Yamuna and then with Sabarmati in Gujarat will be completed...
Nepal earthquake: Income Tax Department nod in 2 days for charity firms for relief work"Charitable organisations under IT Act can render help to earthquake victims in Nepal. Applications to CBDT will be processed in two days,"...
UN releases $15 million emergency aid for quake-hit NepalUN agencies are coordinating international efforts and are working with partners in Nepal, including the government, to ensure the aid reac...
US praises India's role in helping quake-hit Nepal"India has demonstrated its global leadership in recent weeks, first in Yemen and now in Nepal. We are grateful; we are impressed; we are i...
No contact with home, Nepalese consulate staff a worried lot"I was trying to get in touch with my family members after the quake . But it took about two and a half hours to contact them," he said.
Fresh tremors felt in NepalAs soon as the tremors were felt, people rushed out of their buildings to open grounds. A majority of people, who were already sleeping in ...
Death toll likely to reach 5,000: Nepal Consul General in KolkataNepal's Consul General in Kolkata Chandra Kumar Ghimire today feared the death toll in the devastating earthquake could go up to 5,000.
Power shortage is pulling Indo-Nepal trade scenario against NepalCrippled with power shortage, Himalayan country Nepal imposes extra hour of mandatory power cut. The situation is going to further darken i...
- Nepal should take to power generation in big way: Nitin Gadkari
BJP President Nitin Gadkari today asked Nepal to exploit its potential in producing power, which can be sold to India also, to tackle pover...
- Nepal PM Baburam Bhattarai seeks Indian investment in Nepal's hydropower sector
Bhattarai said the government would focus on exploiting the huge potential of hydropower of Nepal once the six-year-long peace process conc...
- Asia facing worsening water crisis: ADB
Asian countries, including India, are facing a worsening water crisis that threatens to curtail food production while taking an increasingl...
- Nepal declares power crisis, 12-16-hr cuts per day likely
It is likely to be a dark New Year for Nepal as the Maoist-led government has declared a national "power crisis" and said that the blackout...
- 'Food shortage looms in flood-hit S Asia'
South Asian nations, including India, face "serious" threats of food shortage, says UN.
- Monsoon death toll 530 in S Asia
Torrential rains in the past two weeks have killed at least 530 people and stranded 19 million.