Even as churpi becomes popular abroad, the domestic market is stagnating and driving away farmers and investors
Hariz Baharudin
Up to 300 Nepali students are stranded in Malaysia after a college lied about providing lucrative jobs for graduates
Dambar K Shrestha
The first edition of Ultra Trail Kathmandu attracts professionals and amateurs alike
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When the team from the Institution for Suitable Actions For Prosperity (ISAP) wanted to track down some nomadic yak farmers last December, they…
Toh Ee Ming
Yacón is a sweet, crunchy fruit that tastes similar to an apple, but unfortunately resembles the unassuming sweet potato. It comes in a variety…
Families of the Uttarakhand flood victims live with the anguish of not knowing whether their loved ones are dead or alive
Bachchu Bk
Sita and her family are not ready to give up their fight against the state just yet
Bhrikuti Rai
The involvement of Nepali soldiers in the First World War has more to it than military gallantry
Sunir Pandey
The Anglo-Nepal War 1814-1816 was more about trade than territory
Kunda Dixit
Two declassified Foreign Office files shed interesting light on events in Kathmandu after the Khampa raid on the Chinese in June 1964 which put newly arrived British Ambassador Anthony Duff in a predicament
Sam Cowan
The British preferred to recruit soldiers from Nepal’s mountain ethnicities rather than from the high castes
Deepak Aryal
Companies need to look at the physically handicapped as a valuable human resource option
Samira Shakya
Politics In an unprecedented move, the four major parties agreed to stay out of Singha Darbar, choosing instead to task Chief Justice Khil Raj…
Nepal’s first agricultural scientist and a lifelong campaigner to save the Bagmati River, HutaramBaidya, passed away on 24 December, leaving behind a legacy.
An innovation that may revolutionise surgical care is taking hold in rural Nepal
We can build on the hope generated by last month’s polls by conducting local elections soon
Duncan Maru
I have always been an artist, but when I visited Nepal in 2003, I felt an identity crisis. I finished a Bachelor’s degree in art, however, I…
Nepal needs to be prepared before it demands the return of its stolen religious figures from foreign collections
Kathmandu looks dramatically different from the perspective of time and space
Pictures taken decades apart show how community forestry has restored Nepal’s midhill vegetation
Working for glaciers In October 2007, I travelled to the north side of Mt Everest carrying with me a black and white photograph taken in 1921 by…
David Breashears
Living through the Himalayan thaw Global warming is causing the Himalayan mountains to melt at an accelerated rate.Melting glaciers and receding…
The recent global climate conference delivered just enough to keep the process moving
NEARING THE END: Nanda Prasad and Ganga Maya Adhikari on Thursday afternoon on the 50th day of their hunger strike at Bir Hospital, demanding…
