Keeping pilots flying to remote areas
Nepal’s domestic airlines are finding it difficult to retain pilots who fly to challenging mountain airfields
Politicians and cronies blamed for Kavre floods
Uncovering the hidden owners of mining companies that made September’s floods more deadly
Airfields without airplanes
Trumpet Call
A second Trump term to affect US ties with China and India, because of that will impact Nepal as well
The climate stakes of the US election
Elections always matter, but this one matters more than most for the US and for the planet
Mortality in the Gaza-Israel War
The Palestinian death toll over the 12 month is among the highest civilian casualty rates in any 21st century conflict
Quake survivors migrate for work
A year after the Jajarkot earthquake on 3 November 2023, survivors move overseas to earn and rebuild homes
“I have lived a simple, boring life”
Nepali Times resumes its Diaspora Diaries column, of which this is the 51st instalment
East meets West at Kathmandu jazz
The twentieth edition of Jazzmandu brought western and eastern musicians together as jazz hit the Himalaya
Nepal defeated but not dejected
Despite loss in the finals women’s football team held its own at the SAFF tournament
Climate
Crocodile Chronicle
Nepal has rescued the gharial from extinction, but the rare reptile has a sex problem
Climate security and geopolitics
In the run-up to COP29, a conversation with political scientist Ian Bremmer on balancing zero-sum geopolitics with decarbonisation
Flood of despair
As in previous calamities, there is hope in individual Nepalis and communities helping each other
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Kathmandu airport to cut flight hours
High living below the Himalaya
Back to the land in the cities
In with the old in Nepal
Opinions
Home is where the heart is
From satire to defiance: The political power of Abu Abraham’s cartoons
The climate stakes of the US election
Mortality in the Gaza-Israel War
Prospects for a Kamala Harris administration
Rest is not the absence of activity
The silent danger of lead
20YEARS AGO THIS WEEK
Rest is not the absence of activity
Review
Karmarong in Karmarong
Talented artist from Mugu weaves the story of his people into unique thangka paintings
The present meets the past
French anthropologist’s photographs are a time machine taking viewers back to Nepal 60 years ago
Menstruation is normal, period
Anthology of stories of stigma from around the world by women who overcame discrimination
Business
Turkish wins big
Turkish Airlines won three awards at the APEX/IFSA Global Expo in California: the ‘FTE Pioneer’ award, ‘Best-In-Class’ in sustainability, and ‘World Class’...
Chilime-Trisuli green-lit
The 220kV Chilime-Trisuli transmission line which is crucial for power export to China has been completed seven years after construction first began....
Bhairawa airport
Kuwait’s Jazeera, Fly Dubai and Thai Air Asia are set to begin flights to Bhairawa airport. CAAN had insisted that budget airlines...