by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 21, 2017 | World
Floods in South Asia have left more than 800 people dead and over a million displaced in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. Seasonal monsoon rains, a lifeline for farmers across South Asia, typically cause loss of life and property every year between July and September, but...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 3, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
New Delhi, Kathmandu – Officials say four people including a teenager and two women were killed when a wild elephant ran amok in southern India early Friday. District official S. Madhuranthangi said that the elephant strayed into a residential area on the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 19, 2016 | Sports
More than 150 climbers have scaled Mount Everest on a crowded day on top of the world’s highest peak because of improved weather conditions, an official in Nepal said on Thursday. Mountaineering Department official Gyanendra Shrestha said it was hard to say...
by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 10, 2016 | Travel
Climbers are making good progress on Mount Everest and the first group could reach the summit as early as Thursday, in the first attempts in three years to make the final ascent to the world’s tallest peak after disasters cut short the 2014 and 2015 campaigns....
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 12, 2015 | World
Kathmandu, AP—A major earthquake has hit Nepal near the Chinese border between the capital of Kathmandu and Mount Everest less than three weeks after the country was devastated by a quake. The US Geological Survey said the quake hit with a magnitude of 7.3 in an...
