Butchers kill buffalo during a mass slaughter of the animals for the Gadhimai festival in Nepal. Getty Images A temple in southern Nepal known for the mass slaughter of animals at a festival there ...

Every five years around November and December, hundreds of thousands to millions of Hindus flock to a temple in southeastern Nepal, next to the country’s border with India, in a tradition that ...

Most donations were expected to come from Nepalese people across the state, however. The building, described as a “labour of love’’, would have a place of worship, a Pashupatinath temple ...