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Prithvi Highway. The Prithvi Highway or NH04 (previously: H04 ) ( Nepali: पृथ्वी राजमार्ग) is a 174-kilometre-long (108 mi) highway connecting Naubise of Tribhuvan Highway, 26 km from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, and Prithivi Chowk, Pokhara, a tourist city in the western part of Nepal. [ 1]
Pokhara Airport ( Nepali: पोखरा विमानस्थल, IATA: VNPK) is a domestic airport serving Pokhara in Nepal. Pokhara Airport will be gradually replaced by Nepal's third international airport, Pokhara International Airport, in 2023. [4] While most operations were transferred to the new airport on 1 January 2023, the STOL ...
Yeti Airlines Flight 691. / 28.19750°N 83.98500°E / 28.19750; 83.98500. Yeti Airlines Flight 691 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight flown by Yeti Airlines from Kathmandu to Pokhara in Nepal. On 15 January 2023, an ATR 72, the aircraft being operated on the route, stalled and crashed while landing at Pokhara with 68 passengers ...
On 5 September 1999, a BAe 748-501 Super 2B operating as Necon Air Flight 128 from Pokhara to Kathmandu, crashed while approaching Tribhuvan International Airport. The aircraft collided with a communication tower of Nepal Telecommunication Corporation and crashed in a wooded area 25 km west of Kathmandu. All 10 passengers and 5 crew were killed ...
Rani Pokhari ( Nepali: रानी पोखरी; lit. queen's pond), originally known as Nhu Pukhu ( Newar: न्हू पुखू; lit. new pond), is a historic artificial pond located in the heart of Kathmandu, Nepal. [ 1] The square-shaped tank dates from the 17th century, and was built on the eastern side of the then city limits.
In October 2023, the airport's construction was the subject of an investigation by The New York Times.The newspaper found that the airport's construction costs were deliberately inflated; and that was completed without several items that are typically required in building a new airport (such as taking local rainfall and soil conditions into account, which can leave it vulnerable to flooding).
The first ever Bus service from India to Nepal was flagged off on Tuesday, 25 November 2014. The bus was flagged off by Road Transport and Highway Minister Nitin Gadkari in New Delhi at a time when Indian Prime minister Narendra Modi was in kathmandu to attend 18th SAARC summit from 26–27 November.
Nepal Standard Time. Nepal Standard Time ( NPT) is the time zone for Nepal. [1] With a time offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of UTC+05:45 all over Nepal, [2] [3] it is one of only three time zones with a 45-minute offset from UTC. [n 1] [4] NPT is an approximation of Kathmandu mean time, which is 5:41:16 ahead of UTC. The standard ...