A 35-year-old woman from Nepal drowned in Uttarakhand’s Bhagirathi river while filming a reel at Manikarnika Ghat. The tragic ...

Decades of donor funding and cross-border electricity trade with neighbours, particularly India with which it shares many rivers, have made hydro the default clean energy choice for Nepal.

At least 14 people were killed after an Indian-registered passenger bus plunged into the Marsyangdi River in Nepal's Tanahun district on Friday, PTI reported, citing local media reports.

As in the past, people bring the bodies of deceased loved ones to the banks of the river but prefer using water from bottles purchased in shops to purify the body these days.

While China sees Nepal as the perfect market for its hydropower and electricity infrastructure, India is trying to curb relations between the two.