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'Cultural City, Prosperous Metropolis': Kathmandu Metropolis plans international film festival, UNESCO push and ancient water revival in new tourism drive
14 June 2026The Kathmandu Metropolitan City (KMC) has placed heritage conservation, cultural promotion, and tourism development at the heart of its policy and programme for fiscal year 2083/84 (2026/27), unveiling a wide-ranging agenda that includes an international film festival, homestay promotion in historic settlements, UNESCO intangible heritage listings, and the restoration of the city's ancient water infrastructure.
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ClimbingBeing discharged from HAMS, Hillary Dawa recounts week-long survival ordeal in Everest death zone
11 June 2026Dawa Sherpa, the 57-year-old Nepali climber who went missing on Everest's upper slopes, has been discharged from a Kathmandu hospital this evening.
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T3 Special"Where is our right to privacy?" — BBC broadcasts ICU interview of Everest survivor Dawa Sherpa without permission
6 June 2026The BBC has broadcast a video interview of Dawa Sherpa, the Sherpa guide who survived seven days alone in Everest's death zone, filmed inside the intensive care unit of HAMS Hospital in Kathmandu without the knowledge or consent of his family or hospital authorities, drawing sharp condemnation from his wife and raising serious questions about the broadcaster's adherence to its own editorial standards.
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T3 SpecialLhakpa Gyalzen Sherpa: The guardian of the Himalayas
30 May 2026In the world's highest and harshest wilderness — where oxygen thins, winds howl, and every second can separate life from death — Lhakpa Gyalzen Sherpa has become a legend.
