If ever Kathmandu's elite chattering classes had a caf? culture, then the beginnings of one can be seen at Chez Caroline at Baber Mahal.…
Chandra Kumar Rai and Jivan Thapa, two Nepalis serving life-sentences at Bangkwang Central Prison in Thailand, continue to languish in jail…
Ghatana Ra Bichar, 1 November
Hong Kong's Dragon Air resumed flights to Kathmandu on 29 October eight years after it had stopped flying the route. Initially the airline will…
Hem Bahadur Malla, the man responsible for single-handedly improving the IQ of millions of Nepali children by managing salt-iodisation and…
For those who can't trek up the highest mountains in the world, the accomplishment of a mountain flight is mountaineering itself.
A benign king is preferable to the overhasty adoption of an already corrupted version of democracy, says the author of a new book on Himalayan kingdoms.
Budhabar, 25 October
Your "Roman Nepali Phonetic Guidelines for emails and chats" (# 11, p.12) is very confusing and likely to mislead readers even more. You…
The manager of the Rastriya Banijya Bank is one completely frustrated man. He has nearly given up fighting corruption, and now he is going to…
The PAC, which is also investigating a recent lease agreement between the Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation (RNAC) and Austria's Lauda Air, has…
Rabindra Shrestha in Kantipur, 19 October
Nepali Congress still at it The truce brokered between the warring sides in the ruling Congress Party has begun to unravel. The two factions are…
The reorganisation of states in India has one important lesson for Nepal. It is the demand for development that creates fissiparous tendencies rather than regional or linguistic chauvinism.
With the end of the Dasain and Tihar festivities and the onset of winter, the Valley's sportsmen are gearing up for another round of sports…
Competition is brewing up for the Rastriya Beema Sansthan and the National Life and General Insurance Company, the two companies that have so…
A teller of tales or a priest from any of the temples crowding the ghats would have said that gods and goddesses came to bathe unseen at the…
The new chief of police, Pradeep Sumsher Rana, has admitted to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that his organisation had made a "mistake" in…
The king rose from his seat and advanced to shake my hand. He was dressed in white, the loose shirting and tight cotton trousers or suruwal worn…
They joked, they drank tea and they shared biscuits. Deputy Prime Minister Ram Chandra Poudel was in a relaxed Tihar mood. He quipped that he…
It is a lie that former Kathmandu district president of the Nepali Congress, Prakash Man Singh, did not give memberships to Congress stalwarts…
Nepal Samacharpatra, 1 November
Nepal's flag carrier began flying to Bangalore, an emerging pilgrimage destination for Nepalis headed for a darshan of Sai Baba at his two…
With Dasain and Tihar over and less than seven weeks to go for Christmas, Kathmandu's trinket bazaars are gearing up again for the next holiday season.
