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A massive fire broke out in tourist hub of Thamel in Kathmandu on Thursday night.

Latest television images show that the blaze which started at around 10 pm from a building near Kathmandu Guest House in Thamel and immediately spread to five houses has been fully brought under control only after 10 hours.

Shisha Terrace Café and Bar, the famous Pilgrims Book House including adjoining jewelry and curio shops have been fully destroyed in the fire. According to preliminary police estimates, the leaping blaze has fully or partially destroyed more than 20 houses, shops and restaurants as there are tight clusters of buildings in the narrow alleys of Thamel.

There has been no report of casualties, but police said that one person suffered minor injuries in the blaze.

Firefighters from Kathmandu Metropolitan City, police and the Army are still trying to put out the smoke while attempting to gauze the full extent of the damage caused by the fire.

Five fire engines had been sent to the spot to bring the fire under control late night. More than two hundred fire fighters, policemen and locals were involved in efforts to douse the fire and prevent it from spreading to adjoining houses.

The reason of the fire was yet to be confirmed, but it is learnt that the building from where the blaze started was made of wood and was thus prone to catching fire.

Although no casualties has taken place, but the loss in terms of property in the incident will run to millions of rupees, police said. Pilgrims Book House which has been in Thamel for many years was completely destroyed. Partially burnt books as well as various others artifacts from the book store were seen strewn across the narrow street.

Over the last few years, Kathmandu has seen few major fires breaking out at crowded places.

Source: nepalnews.com 

Kathmandu: A massive fire that broke out in Thamel on Thursday night has finally come under control after nine hours on Friday morning.

The fire is brought under control after using fire brigades form Lalitpur, Bhaktapur and Kathmndu districts and more than two dozens of private water tanks to douse the fire.

It has been estimated that the the fire has destroyed property worth millions. The fire has destroyed the Thamel-based Pilgrim Books House and the books stored at the shop along with the three houses of Sher Bahadur Shahi and Ajaya Shahi.

According to Hemanta Pal, spokesperson at Metropolitan Police Commissioner´s Office, the fire had started from Faces Club last night.

Police said that they are yet to know the exact reason behind the fire.

However, they suspected that the fire might have broke out due to explosion of cooking gas cylinder.

Source: Republica 

Archaeologists have discovered artifacts dating from the Buddha era from an excavation site at Bhawanipur in Devdaha, Rupandehi district.

A team of the Department of Archeology (DoA) started excavation at the Devdaha area, believed to be the maternal home of the Buddha, two years ago. The excavation at Bhawanipur began three weeks back.

Walls, bricks, silver and wooden bracelets, clay utensils, butter lamps and stones are among the things discovered.

Prakash Darnal, officer at the department, said that findings of relics such as a bust of the Buddha, a well and the ruins of the Siddhartha palace will help prove the area’s relation with the enlightened one.

“Additional study and excavation are necessary to find which part of the area is the maternal home of Gautam Buddha,” he said.

Out of the 14 Buddha-related areas, he said, some parts only of Kanyamai, Bhawanipur and Panditpur were unearthed so far. “We have found remains dating back to 10th, 11th and 12th centuries,” he said.

The discovered items are said to have been sent to the department for study. They will later be returned through the Lumbini Development Trust (LDT), an official said.

Himal Upreti, archeology officer at the LDT, said consultations on whether the discovered antiques will be displayed in the Lumbini International Museum or kept at Devdaha will be held with the local people.

Meanwhile, locals complained that the excavation site is being encroached upon and the discovered items are being stolen due to the failure of the LDT to protect the site. The LDT has only fenced the site with barbed wires.

Keshab Khawas, chairman of the Buddha Maternal Home Area Development Committee, stressed the need to conserve the Devdaha area.

Source: ekantipur 

Kathmandu: A plane crashed while trying to land at a mountain airstrip in northern Nepal early Thursday, and all 21 people on board, including eight Japanese tourists, survived with injuries, police said.

Four of the injured were in critical condition, police officer Bhim Bahadur Chand said.

The state-owned Nepal Airlines plane was carrying eight Japanese tourists. The others on board, including three crew members, are all Nepali.

The Canadian-built Twin Otter plane was trying to land at Jomsom airport, some 200 kilometers northwest of the capital, Kathmandu, when it crashed on the banks of the Kaligandaki river.

All of the injured were flown in different planes to the nearby city of Pokhara, where there are better-equipped hospitals.

Police said the wheel of the plane touched the runway but that the aircraft veered toward the right and crashed on the banks of the Kaligandaki. The front portion of the plane was destroyed, but the rear part remained intact. The left wing remained submerged in the river.

Rescuers were able to pull the injured passengers and crew from the plane.

Civil aviation officials identified the Japanese passengers as Namba Hajime, Sato Setsuko, Terada Etsuko, Kawabe Sachiyo, Yazawa Yaeko, Yazawa Hiromi, Kawakami Hiroko and Abe Akiko. Other details about the Japanese passengers were not immediately known.

The area is popular with foreign trekkers visiting the Mount Annapurna area and Hindu pilgrims visiting the revered Muktinath temple.

Fifteen people were killed last May when a plane crashed while attempting to land at the same airport.

Source: Montreal Gazette-16 May, 2013

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Owing to its rich culture and heritage, India is one of the top tourism destinations in Asia, a survey by CNN has said.

The study, ‘CNN Consumer Connect Travel and Tourism 2013′, has positioned India as the region’s fourth fastest growing tourism destination and the third most attractive business for investment opportunities, after China and Hong Kong.

India was on the list of must-visit destinations in Asia Pacific, admitted one-fifth of the surveyed audience of global travelers. India has fended off competition from Japan and Thailand to rank as the second richest culture and heritage destination, after China.

“These results are great news for India and the Asia Pacific region as a whole,” said Duncan Morris, vice president of research at Turner International Asia Pacific.

“CNN consumers are discerning, affluent global travelers and they clearly indicate a desire to visit this part of the world to enjoy a particular brand of hospitality, food, culture, everything that makes a travel experience distinctive.”

The 14th edition of the survey polled over 3,000 readers based in over 70 countries around the world and was carried out between October and December 2012 and conducted by Ipsos.

Of the respondents, 69 percent were male and 31 percent females, with an average age of 40.

Source: Deccan Herald-01 May, 2013

Nepal has officially opened the Great Himalayan Trail, one of the longest and highest trekking routes in the world, the tourism board said on Thursday.

Billed as the ultimate trek, the arduous hike over Nepal’s mighty Himalayas stretches from Taplejung in the shadow of the world’s third-highest peak, Mount Kanchenjunga, to Humla at the border with Tibet.

“This is a completely new product and we hope that it will help boost the tourism industry,” said Sharad Pradhan, a spokesman for the Nepal Tourism Board.

“It will also help cement Nepal’s reputation as the ultimate destination for adventure seekers. Adventure tourism, as a niche, is new to us but this is definitely an attractive package,” he said.

Adventurers who complete the 1,700-kilometre (1,050-mile) trek will encounter a huge variety of cultures from the mainly Buddhist Tamang people of the central Langtang region to the ancient animist practices that mix with Hinduism in the far west.

It will take experienced trekkers around five months to complete, although it can also be broken down into smaller sections.

Nepal hosts thousands of trekkers and mountaineers annually. The country has eight of the world’s 14 peaks over 8,000 meters, including the world’s highest, Mount Everest, at 8,848 meters (29,021 feet).

The Everest region offers several trails that range from 10-day to three-week packages.

The Annapurna Circuit, Nepal’s most popular, is a 300-kilometre, three-week trek that rises to 5,416 meters (17,768ft) and passes through two river valleys.

Source: ekantipur-30 Sep, 2011

Glaciers in the Everest region have shrunk by 13 per cent and the snow-line receded 180 meters higher during the past half century, says a study that is to be presented at a conference of the American Geophysical Union.

The study, led by Sudeep Thakuri of the University of Milan, is based on satellite imagery and topographic maps.

“Thakuri and colleagues reconstructed the glacial history of the region and concluded that ice retreat on Everest and the neighbouring Sagarmatha National Park is accelerating due to warming temperatures (a 0.6 degree Celsius rise) and declining snowfall (a 100 millimeter decrease) since the early 1990s,” reported Mongabay.com citing the research report.

It said that as per the findings of the study, glaciers have retreated by an average of 400 meters since 1962 while glaciers smaller than one square kilometer have experienced a 43 percent decrease in surface area.

The researchers speculate that rising carbon dioxide levels are driving the changes, but are yet to establish a direct connection, said the environmental science news web portal.

Source: nepalnews.com

World cyclist Pushkar Shah is embarking on cycling along the Great Himalaya Trail in order to promote responsible tourism in Nepal’s Himalayas.

The ambitious cycling expedition is part of the WWF Nepal’s ‘Green Hiker Campaign’. Minister for Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation Ram Kumar Shrestha handed over a bicycle to Shah amidst a ceremony organized in the capital on Wednesday.

Shah, who had traveled across the world on his bicycle spreading the message of world peace, is also a leader of World Cyclist Foundation.

“I will in the best possible way help spread the message of the Green Hiker Campaign and responsible tourism wherever I go,” he said.

Nepal Tourism Board in partnership with WWF Nepal had launched the Green Hiker campaign in May 2011 on the occasion of the 4th International Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) Day. The campaign is part of an agreement between the two organizations to promote responsible tourism in Nepal.

Source: nepalnews.com