Farmers are abandoning indigenous rice for higher-yielding hybrids, putting at risk varieties that carry distinctive genetic traits, cultural traditions and centuries of agricultural history.

Kiran Singh, 65, had been missing since Friday evening after travelling to Dhekhari forest, where he was preparing to establish a commercial farm.

The UN agency recognises Nepal’s conservation efforts at the Buddha’s birthplace but warns that risks remain and issues 13 recommendations for stronger protection.

Fresh census records 74 more tigers than in the previous nationwide count of 2022, when the country saw 355 big cats.

A speeding truck carrying alcohol struck a child and two elderly men on the Taulihawa–Bahadurganj postal road, triggering local protests at the accident site.

A total of 2,314 coins were found near a pond inside a water pot called karuwa.

After 26 years in the Nepali Army, retired colonel Sudeep KC now uses the precision he honed as a soldier to track and photograph Nepal’s rare birds, mammals and landscapes.

Dr Anilman Shakya, a Nepali monk educated on a Thai royal scholarship, rose through the ranks of Thailand’s Sangha while teaching at prisons, Oxford and leading global universities.

Farmers are searching across borders and cooperative depots for scarce chemical fertiliser, with some forced to transplant without it and others facing difficulties bringing supplies from India.

An unprecedented influx of Indian holidaymakers and pilgrims, even during the traditional off-season, is boosting business for hotels, restaurants and tourism operators across Nepal.

The “Walk for Peace” movement expands to South Asia, carrying a message of harmony from Texas to the birthplace of Buddha.

Grain markets across the Tarai are disappearing as direct farm buying and declining production weaken farmers' bargaining power.

Ornithologists say the rare bird, found only in Nepal, has now been confirmed across all seven provinces after a sighting in Bara district.

Decades of efforts to establish new habitats for endangered species have produced uneven outcomes, raising concerns as authorities prepare to relocate blackbucks to Chitwan.

Conservationists say habitat loss, wetland encroachment, pollution and shifting weather patterns are disrupting migration, feeding and breeding cycles of birds across the country.