The World Economic Forum’s annual list of Young Global Leaders (YGL) has featured very few Nepalis so far. The 2015 batch included Nepali…
Prime Minister K P Oli’s media blitz this week taking full credit for a social security scheme for private sector employees was an attempt to…
BUDDHIST DISNEYLAND: Lumbini is fast turning into a Buddhist theme park with concrete structures popping up everywhere.Pic: Om Astha RaiThe…
HAMMERS AND SICKLES: Basanta Mahatara (left) and Nirmala Thapa’s husbands were murdered by opposing forces during the Nepal conflict. Twelve…
CLOSED DOOR: Labour ministers and delegates from 12 labour-exporting Asian countries meet in Kathmandu on Thursday. Pic: Labour…
Photo: KUNDA DIXITNext week as Nepalis celebrate Tihar, the festival of lights, few will remember that it will mark the second anniversary of…
PIPE DREAM: Part of a 69km petroleum pipeline connecting Amlekhganj in Nepal to an oil refinery in India, under construction in Patlaiya. The…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwbKTUYxlh0The appointment by the Communist government of respected economist Yuba Raj Khatiwada (pictured…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZq9PMPzTrg&feature=youtu.beIt has been one year since Nepal wrapped up all three rounds of local elections.…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThat the fourth BIMSTEC summit would be declared a “success” was a foregone conclusion because there wasn’t really much…
Diwakar ChettriAs Nepal’s Parliament passes a slew of bills to activate the new Constitution, hardwon principles like the freedom of press,…
Om Astha RaiOne-and-a-half years after being fired for failing to speed up post-earthquake recovery, Sushil Gyewali is back as the CEO of…
As Nepal’s new Civil and Criminal Code Acts came into effect on Friday, fears were raised that Nepal’s strongmen rulers could misuse clauses in…
In May, the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) faced a dilemma. The Election Commission (EC) was throwing the book at the ruling party for not meeting…
Seven years after the Supreme Court issued a landmark verdict in the Sabina Damai vs Government of Nepal case, allowing children to obtain…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lb531XMbWkKamala Shrestha (pictured, right) wanted to build a new earthquake-resistant house after her…
A gardener tending the parliament garden on Thursday.Five months into his prime ministership, K P Oli has notched a string of foreign policy…
Dr Bhampa Rai with his wife Urmila Rai on Thursday. Photo: Gopal GartaulaIn the early 1990s, Bhutan's royal regime forced out nearly 75,000 of…
COMMON QUEST: Laxmi Khadka (left) and Usha Dahal's husbands were abducted by opposing sides during the war, and never returned. They are in…
Prime Minister KP Oli at Tiananmen Square on Wednesday , where he laid a wreath at the Mao mausoleum. Photo: Hari Lamichhane/RSSPrime Minister K…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilTSdkJofkkDipak Yadav could not go home for months. He would spend the whole day shouting anti-Kathmandu…
Province 2 Chief Minister Lalbabu Raut in his office. Pic: Om Astha RaiIn his plush and spacious office in the refurbished former Janakpur…
Many say a government that cannot even upgrade roads like the Kalanki intersection for four years has no right to spin dreams of intercity…
In 1994, when Nijgad was identified as the site of Nepal’s planned new international gateway, traffic congestion at Kathmandu Airport was not as…
