LALITPUR: Lalitpur Sub-Metropolitan City has decided to reopen Patan Durbar Square, listed in the UNESCO world heritage sites, for the public and tourists from tomorrow. The historical, archaeological ...

Nepal: Patan Durbar Square in Kathmandu was completely devastated in the 7.7 magnitude in Nepal. Dharahara which is also called Bhimsen Tower was also devastated in the major earthquake in Nepal on ...

The Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust has constructed eight-feet high fences around temples in Patan Durbar Square for their protection as the historical monuments and stone inscriptions were ...

Lok Bahadur Shakya’s earliest memories of Patan Durbar Square haven’t faded. The 74-year-old played in this centuries-old palatial courtyard as a child; he woke to the morning bells of the temples and ...

The landmark Patan Durbar Square in Kathmandu, Nepal, was reduced to bits in the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that tore through the kingdom nation lasting for two minutes. The devastating quake killed ...

Alongside the relief operation in earthquake-ravaged Kathmandu is another smaller, but nonetheless important effort: protecting Nepal’s most precious temples and monuments from further damage. There, ...

When the earthquake hit, many of Nepal’s most renowned pagodas in and around Kathmandu crumbled into rubble-covered stumps. Others were smothered under splintered hand-carved wooden beams or ...

These shocking photographs reveal the terrible toll the Nepal earthquake has had on some of the country's most beautiful and historic landmarks. The monuments of Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, are ...

Kathmandu's Patan Durbar Square is a Unesco World Heritage Site which was badly damaged during Nepal's massive earthquake. The BBC's Joanna Jolly spoke to local volunteer Kanak Mani Dixit about plans ...

Reporting from KATMANDU, Nepal — The gates of Dharahara, an ancient nine-story tower overlooking the city skyline, were locked Monday, its ticket booth shuttered. Yet hundreds of residents clambered ...