Lokesh Sharma, known as the Bikeman, is another fixture on the Katmandu cycling scene.

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Pradeep Keshi is one of more than 200 who have taken refuge in Katmandu.

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It has ordered that all the tempos must get off the streets of Katmandu by mid-August.

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In 1955, my grandparents moved to Katmandu, Nepal on a medical mission when they were 56 years old.

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Police later flew the tourists out of the area to Pokhara, a resort town 200 kilometres west of the capital, Katmandu.

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In 1999, an Indian Airlines Airbus with 178 passengers and crew was hijacked while flying from Katmandu, Nepal, to New Delhi, India.

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His family hope the body can be recovered and taken to Katmandu from where arrangements would be made to fly it back to Northern Ireland.

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The December 24 hijacking of the Indian Airbus-300 during a flight from Katmandu to New Delhi sparked a war of words between archrivals India and Pakistan.

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As a last resort, the tempos can be used elsewhere in Nepal, but not in the towns of Pokhara and Lumbini, which rank in size after Katmandu.

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