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Nepal reports a record 9,127 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, thereby bringing the nationwide total of confirmed cases to 403,794.
2021-05-10

Nepal grants a conditional emergency use approval for the Russian Sputnik V vaccine developed by the Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology.
2021-04-20

Nepal approves the emergency use of the Sinopharm vaccine, which is the second vaccine to be approved in the country.
2021-02-18

At least 30 people are killed and 35 injured after an overcrowded bus carrying passengers inside and on its roof veered off a mountain road in northwest Nepal.
2015-11-3

The world's shortest man ever recorded, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, dies from pneumonia in an American Samoan hospital at age 75. Dangi lived with his family in Dang District, Nepal. His height, listed in the Guinness World Records, is 54.6 centimeters - 21.5 inches.
2015-09-4

At least 160 people are reported dead in floods and landslides following days of heavy rain in northern India and Nepal.
2014-08-18

Taliban fighters are suspected of being responsible for a bus explosion that kills at least nine people and injures more than twenty others in Maidan Wardak Province, Afghanistan.
2013-04-8

A magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurs in northwestern Sikkim, northern India, causing shaking in parts of India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Tibet Autonomous Region. At least thirty seven deaths are reported.
2011-09-18

Nepal bans smoking in public places. [https:--web.archive.org-web-20110808012552-http:--www.straitstimes.com-BreakingNews-Asia-Story-STIStory_699698.html ("Straits Times")
2011-08-7