Nepal's new prime minister will visit India next month on his first foreign visit, seeking to repair the strained relationship between the neighbours, an official said Wednesday.
A helicopter crashed into a hillside in Nepal on Monday, killing all seven people on board including a baby, officials said.
Dozens of people, many in tears, thronged Kathmandu's airport on Wednesday to receive the bodies of 12 Nepali guards killed in a suicide bomb attack in Kabul this week.
Protesters from southern Nepal scuffled with riot police in Kathmandu on Sunday when they took their campaign against the country's new constitution to the streets of the capital.
Aid-dependent Nepal needs $7.86bn over five years, $1.17bn more than earlier estimates, to rebuild homes and infrastructure destroyed by the deadly earthquake in 2015, the government said on Thursday.
Thousands of Nepalis grieved on Sunday for their loved ones killed in a massive earthquake a year ago, as protesting victims still living in tents accused the government of failing them.
Nepal has begun distributing free mobile SIM cards to newly arrived visitors in a bid to attract tourists and allay safety fears after last year's devastating earthquake and avalanches.
Nepal has extended the climbing permits of hundreds of mountaineers forced to abandon Everest after last year's massive earthquake, to try to lure tourists back to the Himalayas.
Emergency workers have found the bodies of 19 people killed when their plane crashed into a mountainside in western Nepal with the loss of all 23 passengers and crew, police said Thursday.
Nepal's former prime minister Sushil Koirala died in Kathmandu aged 77 after a bout of pneumonia, his doctor said.
A 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck near Nepal's capital late Friday, US seismologists said.
