31.  The Web site quoted Balasingham as rejecting a suggestion by a Sri Lankan newspaper that said the Nepalese capital of Katmandu might be a venue for the talks.

32.  They were climbing down separately because of the narrow path, said Pleso who arrived in Katmandu, the Nepalese capital, on Wednesday.

33.  They are expected to meet again in January at a summit of South Asian leaders in Katmandu, the Nepalese capital.

34.  This was recalled Sunday by Rajendra Kumar Goud, copilot of the Indian Airlines Airbus which was hijacked on a flight from the Nepalese capital Katmandu to New Delhi.

35.  Two bombs went off at the Coca-Cola factory in the Nepalese capital before workers had reported for duty.

36.  Vaidya said the soaring temperature in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan sent the haze drifting to Katmandu, the Nepalese capital.

37.  In the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, a tourism ministry official and the New Zealand honorary consul Elizabeth Hawley said they had received no reports of any accident.

38.  A bomb planted near the royal palace and the US embassy in the Nepalese capital was defused by the bomb disposal squad, police said Friday.

39.  A key conference on Asian rural affairs is to be held in the Nepalese capital next week, officials said Wednesday.

40.  A seminar on the control of tuberculosis, one of the biggest health threats in South Asia, has ended in the Nepalese capital, a statement said Thursday.