Her husband, Harisaran, was out of sight, but I knew he was milking the family’s cow or perhaps tending to chickens. Soon, their eldest daughter, Binita, would call me for breakfast.

Shortly after dawn, more than 200 monks from an order of Tibetan exiles carry carefully bundled scriptures and 108 gold-gilt ...

The priest said that for Dalits in the South Asian sub-continent, there is no escaping the evil practice. “So, we ensure ...

Peeking outside my guest room through crimson drapes, I saw Bimala Bastola, a shy, hardy woman of 40 draped in a red sari, sweeping the small patio at the base of her family’s four-story cement home .

Months after the death of his father and sponsor ... killed it with two more gunshots to the chest.” When he arrived home with the news, the pushback from his family was fierce.

But in Botswana, home to more elephants than any country in ... walked along the dirt road into town on their way to pick up a cow from a nearby village. The brothers, ages 20 and 35, recounted ...

In the immediate aftermath of the tragic death of a 20-year-old Nepali student ... issued a notice for all international students from Nepal to vacate the campus. Following backlash, the ...

Nepal has reported the first death due to COVID-19 with a new mother in Sindhupalchowk ... She had a delivery at the Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital (TUTH) nine days ago and returned home. She ...

Indian media reported the rising number of cases involving tiger bone glue — an illicit sap-like substance made by ...

A viral video shows an Indian-origin family in San Francisco bringing a decorated cow into their new home for traditional housewarming rituals. A viral video showing an Indian-origin family in San ...

Wildlife biologists in Nepal use a few different techniques to track, count and preserve tiger populations. Here's a look ...

Nine of 10 people needing transplants never find a donor. Updated laws increase the donor pool by allowing transplants from ...