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Heavy snow disrupts traffic on China-Nepal highway
Beijing, Feb 9 (IANS) Heavy snow Thursday halted traffic on a section of the China-Nepal highway, which links southwest China's Tibet autonomous region and Nepal, said traffic officials. According Zhao Chun, in charge of road maintenance work in Nyalam county, the section of the road, connecting the Nyalam county and Zhangmu township and located along the border between the two countries, was blanketed

Nepal's only int'l airport shut due to grass fire

A grass fire has closed Nepal's only international airport and forced flights to divert to India.

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Bird flu traces found in Nepal
As around 8,000 chickens have died of bird flu , or H5N1 virus in the Nepal's Sunsari district in last few days, more traces of the virus have been found in the region, Xinhua reported.

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Azad calls for collaboration in health research

New Delhi, Feb 5 (IBNS) Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has urged the South Asian Forum for Health Research (SAFHeR) to explore ways for strengthening collaboration by sharing innovative methods for tackling the problems faced by the region's countries.

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Nepal's ex-rebel fighters begin leaving camps
Nepal's former communist rebels have begun leaving the camps they've called home for five years after receiving government checks as part of a plan to integrate them into society.

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An elegy for a new Nepal

This review was supposed to open with a good little gloat about India as “the foreign hand”. Then I re-read the relevant pages of Manjushree Thapa’s new book of essays and

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