Issue #107

The solution to Kathmandu's water shortage lies in collecting rain.

Small is still beautiful in this oasis in the middle of Nepalganj.

While America prepares to bomb Iraq again, one Iraqi refugee family is in limbo in Nepal.

Elections aren't only about winning, the UML may soon find.

"If you act like there is no possibility of change, you guarantee that there will be no change." - Noam Chomsky

The Maoist offer of talks is a ploy to distract the security forces while the comrades prepare for more offensives.

Dhawal SJB Rana is Nepalganj's recently-retired mayor who hopes to contest the MP seat in November elections from the UML. Nepalganj is the…

The veteran singer Phatteman was in fine form at his first solo performance last week.

Photographs of Kathmandu in the 1930s show a mass of brick-and-mortar hovels punctuated by opulent Rana palaces with aspirations to Versailles.…

Concepts and Methods for Working with Complexity David Mosse, John Farrington, Alan Rew, eds India Research Press, New Delhi, 2001 Rs 472 How…

Essays in Honour of Andre Gudner Frank Sing C Chew, Robert Denemark, eds Sage Publications, New Delhi, 1996/2001 Rs 1,112 This festschrift pays…

Deconstructions/Reconstructions Jan Nederveen Pieterse Vistaar Publications, New Delhi, 2001 Rs 440 Pieterse discusses Eurocentrism, critical…

It's been encroached upon and is now being fenced off. It's time to show Tundikhel, our only real park, some respect.

It all began three years ago when a fresh science graduate from Lubhu, tired of teaching school, decided to make a career move. He walked into…

Nepali artists, writers, musicians, photographers, thespians, poets,

Top Bahadur Khadka, in Himal Khabarpatrika, 1-16 August

- Richa Bhattarai, Kirtipur

Two near-miss incidents within half-an-hour early morning on Monday, 12 August, have raised concerns again about aviation safety in the crowded…

The Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans fronti?res) named four new "predators of press freedom" in Asia this week: Islamic…

In its latest body count the police headquarters says that 2,175 Maoists have been killed in encounters with the armed forces since the…

There is good news and bad news for Nepalis above the age of 35, which is when heart ailments start to strike. The good news is that Nepal now…

The Computer Association of Nepal (CAN) and Internet Service Provider Association of Nepal (ISPAN) have lashed out at a group of Nepali hackers…

Dabur Nepal has been named the largest producer and exporter in Nepal, and another company, Arihanta Multi-fibre, has been recognised as the…

Panchakanya, Nepal's largest steel-manufacturing company has launched high-quality thermo-mechanically treated (TMT) steel bars that the company…

A booklet on industrial, fiscal and tax policies produced by the Nepal-India Chamber of Commerce and Industry (NICCI) in association with four…

Sipradi Trading has introduced a new after-sales scheme to service Tata Indica vehicles. The company says the new facility is all about giving…

Officials from Nepal and India are meeting in New Delhi 16-18 August to iron out problems resulting from the renewed Nepal-India trade treaty,…

The Federation of Nepalese Chambers of Commerce and Industries has named a team to represent it at the Joint Economic Committee of the FNCCI and…

The opening up of European Union markets to the export of "everything but arms" from Least Developed Countries has presented Nepal with the…

The fundamental mistake Adam Friedensohn makes in his beautiful article (“Fossil economy”, #106) is to assume that there is a government in…

We want to thank you for publishing Kunda Dixit's piece on the current state of affairs in Dolakha district ("Dolakha's eerie quiet", #105).…

I would like to comment on "Australia's new friend" (#106). The article purports to analyse the Australian government's new White Paper on…

What do you &^$#@ people in the Nepali Times think you are doing? Do you &^%$# know that some &^%$#@ people living abroad go insane if they…