After the ritual bath, devotees, along with the religious performers, collect pure water from the Kamala River to take home. Sprinkling this water around their homes is believed to purify the space.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — High on a mountain in the Himalayas, pristine drops fall from the mouth of a tiger statue installed at a stream thought to form the headwaters of the Bagmati River, long ...

Thousands of devotees gathered along Nepal’s Kamala River to celebrate the centuries-old ‘Bhoot Mela’ on Kartik Purnima.

Two years ago, as he arrived to check a mountain trout fishing centre he owned near the Tibetan border, Gyanendra Kachhapati ...