Locals across Nepal continue to stage protests against the dissolution of the Lower House. Photo: BIKRAM RAIAs feared, Prime Minister KP Oli’s…
2020 turned the world upside down, and in Nepal, one of the most dramatic impacts was on the country’s economic mainstay – overseas contract…
The brutal murder of school principal Rajendra Shrestha in the remote village of Miklajung of Morang district this week is a cruel reminder of…
Loyal readers will remember royal leaders we have covered in these pages over the past two decades. The uneasy transition to constitutional…
Kathmandu’s cognoscenti suffer from low esteem about Nepal’s geostrategic importance. However, the international community also does not give…
For a government with a hefty majority that loftily promised voters prosperity and stability, the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has been able to…
Chirag Paswan of the LJP, incumbent Chief Minister Nitish Kumar of the JDU and Tejaswi Yadav of the RJD, the chief contestants in Bihar’s state…
Going by official statistics, Nepal’s economy is doing splendidly. The economy grew at 2.27%, not bad considering that has been battered for the…
One of Barack Obama’s White House staffers once got into trouble for saying that a hurricane disaster presented a good opportunity for the…
The vote of no-confidence this week by former UML leaders of the Nepal Communist Party of (NCP) in Karnali Province against the ex-Maoist Chief…
"How thirsty he must be. I hope his fast will end soon," said Dr Govinda KC's mother on a video that was shared online. Her sentiment is shared…
The two alpha males of Nepali politics finally sorted out their differences, ending months of deadlock that had brought governance to a…
On 19 September, Nepal marked Constitution Day. It was on this day five years ago that the Constitution was hurriedly promulgated by a…
An indication of the kleptocracy we live in is that an honest government official who performs well is regarded as a messiah. Doctors who do not…
Until vaccines and therapies are available, we in Nepal like everywhere else in the world, have to learn to live with this scourge. Extending…
A columnist recently described the state of education in the country as being characterised by the government's neglect of public schools and…
It has become a cliché to say that every crisis comes with opportunities. But that does not mean it is not true. It is up to us to grab that…
Madhav Prasad Ghimire 1919-2020. Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIWhen national poet laureate Madhav Prasad Ghimire died on Tuesday 18 August at the…
The country is being battered by a coronavirus surge and hospitals are running out of beds for the seriously sick. The economic fallout of the…
The Nepal government knows how much this country is dependent on remittances from Nepalis working abroad. It pays the salaries of politicians…
It's business as usual at the Behaliya checkpoint in Rupandeni district near the Indian border. Photo: MUKESH POKHRELAs the number of cases and…
The back-stabbing in Nepali politics is now going into hyper timelapse. It is getting difficult to figure out exactly who is doing whom…
Why Prime Minister K P Oli decided to use the birth anniversary of Nepali poet Bhanubhakta Acharya on Monday to get embroiled in what he should…
Nearing the 15th week of the lockdown is a decisive milestone to take stock of how Nepal is positioned vis-a-vis the coronavirus pandemic. The…
