Rethinking risk and development in the Himalaya

A warning system only works if people and institutions can act on it, particularly with last-mile redundancy Ajaya Dixit and Monirul Mirza

News

Nepal PM's impassioned UNGA speech

Full text of Prime Minister Balendra Shah's address to the General Assembly

Nepali Times

News

Departure from the norm

In contrast to Prime Minister Balendra Shah’s low-key takeoff from Kathmandu, social media is flooded with narratives of a grand welcome in New York

Shristi Karki

Opinion

We had no name for what came down the Trisuli

We have the science and the capacity. What we lack is the authority to name.

Tri Ratna Bajracharya and Truong Huyen-Chi

Opinion

At Dag Hammarskjöld’s grave, 65 years later

The new UN Secretary-General must also be independent and engage in diplomacy to prevent wars

Jordan Ryan

Opinion

Development, debt, and disaster

Who pays to rebuild after the Bhote Kosi-Trisuli flood?

Sebastian DiPirro

News

Himalayan expeditions hunker down as monsoon storm approaches

A thousand climbers on Mt Manaslu wait out the weather as a late-monsoon depression is headed to Nepal

Smaranika Shakya

News

Duane Berian Clifford Jones, 49

Welshman who spent three decades in Nepal was eye witness to the country's recent history

Thomas Bell

News

Nepal on high alert for heavy rain

River valley hit by last month’s catastrophic flood braces for impact

Nepali Times

Opinion/Editorial View all

Stone and Song

The Mary Slusser expose

How an Americans scholar's archives became both a record of theft and a roadmap for return

Alisha Sijapati

Editorial

Nepal takes its message to the world

Prime Minister Balendra Shah will tell the UN that Nepal’s flood was a global warning

Editorial

Opinion

Even gods were not spared by the flood

The very geography of the Trisuli Valley that made the region sacred is what made it vulnerable

Rajan Khatiwoda

Drive Line

Price war and flood cloud Nepal EV market

Battery-powered cars are cheaper, but journeys are more uncertain and expensive

Arnav Upadhyay

Multimedia View all

Nepali families who lost everything twice

They survived the earthquake, but could not escape the flood on the Trisuli

Sabina Devkota in Nuwakot

The two women of Timure

A photographer’s chance encounter on the Bhote Kosi two decades ago connects memories with tragedy

Deependra Bajracharya

Nepal’s youth revolt, a year later

Students of the September Storm in Kathmandu reflect on how the rally turned deadly, and what has changed

Sudiksha Tuladhar and Shuvani Singh

Nepal beyond the postcards.

People should not have to be extraordinary simply to survive extraordinary loss

Jessica Amity

Climate View all

Water > Energy > Food

Nepal has to start urgently treating food security as a national security issue

Shristi Karki

Doomsday ‘cult’ spreads climate disinformation

Pseudoscience group claims greenhouse gases are not main cause of climate crisis

Julian Reingold and Ignacio Conese

Global energy crisis hits Nepal’s kitchens

But this could be the perfect opportunity to revive the country’s successful biogas program

Saurav Dhakal

International coalition to phase out fossil fuels

57 countries launch a new drive on the energy transition against the backdrop of the Hormuz blockade

Julian Reingold

Reviews View all

Gripping drama of the transgender community

Elephants in the Fog, the Nepali movie that stole the show at Cannes this year, screened in Kathmandu

Sophia L Pandé

The art of the act of piety

The West needs to decolonise its history, the South has to value its heritage more

Shuvani Singh

Blissful conjugal life is an art

Sri Lankan husband-and-wife artists live and paint together ever after

Shuvani Singh

If Sartre spoke Nepali

Miss Menuka is not just about a respectful sex worker, but exposes racism and injustice

Shikha Sharma