Kathmandu, March 3 -- A haphazard decision to close the Kathmandu airport, Nepal's key gateway, for 10 hours daily has begun to take a toll on the country's tourism sector, marking the first decline i... Read More
Kathmandu, Feb. 25 -- Domestic air travel, which faced severe setbacks due to the economic slowdown, high taxes, and crashes in 2023, experienced a revival in 2024, achieving a 7.72 percent year-on-ye... Read More
Kathmandu, Feb. 13 -- International passenger traffic at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) has surged nearly fivefold since 2000, when it handled just a million flyers. In 2024, the a... Read More
Kathmandu, Feb. 7 -- The government has reduced the annual budget by 9 percent, acknowledging its inability to fully use the allocated funds. It did so through a mid-term budget review presented on Th... Read More
Kathmandu, Feb. 5 -- Nepal has officially ended solo expeditions on Everest and other 8,000-metre peaks by amending its mountaineering regulations. The Sixth Amendment was implemented on Tuesday foll... Read More
Kathmandu, Feb. 3 -- Tourism Minister Badri Prasad Pandey re-registered two long-pending civil aviation bills in the lower house of Parliament on Sunday-three years after their passage by the upper ho... Read More
Kathmandu, Feb. 1 -- How many mountains towering above 8,000 metres does Nepal have? Official records once listed eight, but that figure has now grown. The Nepal government has updated its peak profi... Read More