Providing poor accommodation for a desperate people simply will not suffice — it risks walking them into a disaster that will recur, writes Conor O’Loughlin in Kathmandu.

Nineteen people, including seven Britons, were killed when a plane carrying trekkers to the Everest region crashed just after take-off in Nepal’s capital today.

NEPAL’S Gurkhas gave British actress and campaigner Joanna Lumley a hero’s welcome when she landed at Kathmandu Airport yesterday on her first-ever visit to the Himalayan nation.

A helicopter with 23 people on board went missing today in Nepal’s mountainous east, officials said.

At least 65 people are feared dead in landslide in eastern Nepal, officials say.