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Nepal welcomed a total of 1, 158, 459 foreign tourists in 2025, a slight increase than the previous year.

Altogether 1, 147, 548 visitors had visited Nepal in 2024, reported the Nepal Tourism Board (NTB).

The NTB broke down the numbers of foreign tourists visiting Nepal this year, according to which, Indian tourists constituted the highest number at 292,438 followed by Americans at 112,316.

Similarly, Nepal attracted 58,684 Chinese tourists last year while 57,545 tourists arrived in Nepal from the UK.

Likewise, altogether 49,357 visitors came to Nepal from Bangladesh, 37,550 from Australia, 30,243 from Sri Lanka, 30,227 from Thailand and 24,763 from Germany in 2025, said the Board.

In the last December month alone, 98,190 foreigners arrived in Nepal, stated the Board.

Earlier, as the NTB put it, the highest number of foreign tourists to enter Nepal was in 2019 with a whooping 1,197,191 tourists.

At least seven people have died and more than 100 others have been hospitalised in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore over the past few days, allegedly after drinking contaminated water in the city’s Bhagirathpura area, the Indore mayor said on Wednesday, India Today reported. 

"Three deaths have been officially confirmed, but we have received information about four others as well," Mayor Pushyamitra Bhargava said, accepting responsibility and assuring that strict action would be taken against senior officials too.

Bulgaria - the poorest country in the European Union - has become the 21st member of the eurozone - leapfrogging more obvious and prosperous candidates like Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, BBC reported. 

For mostly urban, young and entrepreneurial Bulgarians, it's an optimistic and potentially lucrative leap - the final move in a game which has brought Bulgaria into the European mainstream - from Nato and EU membership, to joining the Schengen zone, and now the euro.

For the older, rural, more conservative parts of the population, the replacement of the Bulgarian lev by the euro provokes fear and resentment, according to BBC. 

Chinese President Xi Jinping has invited South Korean President Lee Jae Myung to a state visit in Beijing, signalling China’s desire to reinforce relations with South Korea amid regional turbulence, Aljazeera reported. 

South Korea’s national security adviser, Wi Sung-lac, told reporters on Friday that Lee will meet Xi in Beijing on Monday before travelling to Shanghai to visit the historic site of South Korea’s provisional government during Japan’s 35-year colonial rule.

Wi said the leaders are expected to discuss “practical cooperation” in areas including supply-chain investment, tourism, and responses to transnational crime, according to Yonhap News Agency, according to Aljazeera.