Barpak (Gorkha), April 23. Kalimaya Gurung, 65, of Barpak, Gorkha, who lost her twenty-six-year-old son in the great earthquake of April 25 last year, has been staying in a temporary shelter for ...

One of those villages is Barpak, a tiny, vibrant settlement of about 1,200 homes in Gorkha district, site of the quake's epicenter. Even by Nepal's remote standards, getting to Barpak is not easy ...

The bakery was set up by Koshi Ram Ghale, a Barpak native who epitomises the can-do spirit of this region of Gorkha that was at the epicentre of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that devastated Central ...

On Saturday, April 25, Nepal experienced the most powerful disaster to strike the country in more than 80 years. The 7.8-magnitude earthquake's epicenter was in Barpak, Gorkha district. The death toll ...

GORKHA (THE KATHMANDU POST/ ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Dal Ram Ghale was taking a nap when he was awoken by a thundering sound on Saturday. Almost immediately, his bed started shaking violently. The 67 ...

GORKHA: A park has been established at Taklenan height in Barpak of Barkot Sulikot Rural Municipality-1 in Gorkha district. The park features around five feet tall statue of the Buddha and offers ...

KATHMANDU: A mild tremor measuring 4.4 on the Richter Scale jolted eastern Nepal around midnight, in an aftershock of the Gorkha quake that devastated the count ...

Yesterday I was given an extraordinarily poignant video. It was recorded less than two weeks before the first great earthquake struck and shows Nepali New Year celebrations in Barpak, a Himalayan ...