Saptahik Nepalipatra, 25 November
A Xinhua report from Beijing last week said Mount Everest is shrinking as a result of global warming. Scientists from the Chinese State Bureau…
Nepal's football fraternity waits as the match moves into extra time.
The latest translocation operation is aimed at creating a third viable population of the greater one-horned rhinoceros in Nepal.
Whatever the reason for the failure of the climate talks in The Hague last week, the loser is the Earth. And our children.
ashmina Ranjit paints for women's causes. Last year she portrayed feminine characters in her installations. This year it is sexuality-female…
Doctors say Hepatitis B, the "silent killer", is becoming a major problem, with 200 new liver cancer patients being added every year. The…
hey say you have to give in order to receive. Regardless of size, the first earning of the day of Easy Link Cyber Caf? in Thamel goes to a fund…
Thank you for highlighting the impending hotel strike ("DEADLOCK", #18). It looks like neither the politicised unions nor the hotel owners care…
The month of UN days is upon us. This week alone 1 December is World AIDS Day, 3 December is the International Day of Disabled Persons and the…
Thank you for printing the excellent expose by Hem Bahadur Bista on the plunder of northern Humla ("Nepali timber to Tibet", #17). The…
Saptahik Bimarsa, 24 November
Himal Power Limited (HPL) officials have ruled out a renegotiation of the power purchase agreement with the Nepal Electricity Authority, arguing…
This is in reference to the item "Future of KMTNC bleak" (From the Nepali Press, #17) which was translated and reproduced from Deshantar. It…
It appears that another deal by the Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation (RNAC) may be terminated after a sub-committee of the parliament's Public…
The Vishal Group Limited-promoters of Nepal Industrial and Commercial Bank, among others-and India's Life Insurance Corporation have joined…
In Nepal oil and water mix. So do kerosene and petrol, water and diesel. A few people get rich quick, the Nepali people lose out.
Giving a building that has outlived its original purpose a new lease on life is a way of utilising a cultural heritage resource for the benefit…
Hotel unions and owners are on a collision course, and the impact could shatter Nepal's tourism industry
The Kathmandu Metropolitan City has decided to charge about 130,000 residents living on the main thoroughfares a fee for collecting household…
A year after the government threw out 640 smoke-belching diesel three-wheelers from the streets of Kathmandu, it has decided on a blanket ban on…
Jana Ahwan, 24 November
India must realise that a poorer Nepal is not in its long-term strategic or economic interest.
The Ring Road can be developed and protected through com-munity participation. Shanti Thapa of Maharajgunj has done it.
