A woman walks past damaged buildings in Kathmandu following the April 2015 Nepal earthquake (Photo: Greg Sandoval) MyShake is a new mobile app that relies on a smartphone’s motion sensor to detect earthquakes. Researchers from the University of ...

When almost a million Nepalese thronged the Kathmandu streets on 24 April 2006 in a historic demonstration, the event seized the world's imagination as a further display of democratic "people power" in Asia. The huge gathering raised great hopes among ...

Listen to updates on news from Nepal over the past seven days, including the expansion of the cabinet and the Nepal Government tasking the Policy Research Institute to conduct a feasibility study on getting Nepalis living overseas to participate in the upcoming elections.

Nepal has appointed its first female prime minister, following a week of deadly protests. Former Supreme Court chief justice Sushila Karki was sworn in as interim prime minister by Nepal's president, Ramchandra Paudel, on Friday. The 73-year-old served as ...

I met Purna Bahadur Sunuwar in early March 2004. It was two weeks after his 15-year-old daughter Maina had been abducted by soldiers from their home in the Kavre district of Nepal, east of the capital Kathmandu. As we sat in his mud house and he told his ...