They used to create clouds of pollution in the capitol, Kathmandu, but the Vikram Tempo rickshaw, the fossil fuel burning version of this conveyance, has been outlawed since 1999.

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But what came into view was a rickshaw. Instead of being pulled by a horse, it was being pulled by a man—usually a skinny, bedraggled, barefoot man who didn’t look quite up to the task.

A woman in Delhi was attacked and robbed by an auto-rickshaw driver. The accused, identified as Sahil, took her to a secluded area and assaulted her with bricks before fleeing with her money.

This story appears in the June 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. EDITOR’S NOTE This story went to press before the earthquake struck Nepal on April 25. The kumaris in the Kathmandu ...

Bajaj Auto recently announced that Orbital will supply fuel injectors for the company's auto-rickshaws that run on LPG and CNG. The two companies were already working together on gas models.

It was the annual Kukur Puja festival in Nepal on Thursday, and dogs across the nation were draped in marigold garlands, marked with celebratory vermillion pigment and presented with overflowing ...

Discover the engineering and practicality behind why auto-rickshaws have 3 wheels instead of 4. Learn how this unique design ...

Rich in cultural heritage, with the magnificence of Mount Everest and the Himalayas as a backdrop, landlocked Nepal remains one of the poorest and least developed countries in the world. In 2015, ...

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Slovak mountaineer Ondrej Huserka fell while descending the Lantang Lirung mountain in Nepal. Hundreds of artefacts were looted from Nepal as it opened up from the 1960s to the 1980s. The 18-year ...

After months, autorickshaws and e-rickshaws also got a chance to earn a bit while providing the metro riders the last link between station and destination. The outbreak of the pandemic and the ...