Issue #127

Refugees go on hunger strike, as Thimpu goes on charm offensive ahead of donor meet.

There is less and less justification for keeping the ban on Nepali women going to work in the Gulf.

"It's all about getting quicker to Year Zero."

Thousands of citizens of the capital used a national holiday and a sunny afternoon to throng the streets Thursday to catch a glimpse of Naba…

If the monarchy, the political parties and the Maoists are all so steadfastly on the peoples' side, how come we feel so abandoned?

A day after King Gyanendra issued three ordinances, including the Finance Ordinance 2003, Finance Minister Dr Badri Prasad Shrestha explained…

Spring has come to Sundarijal, BP is feeling better. But these lines in English from his prison diary show he is still haunted by forebodings…

Student monks from the Tsechen Shedrub-Ling Mon Gon Lobdra (Great Compassion Monastic School) in Lo Manthang are preparing to construct and then…

The mall culture arrives in Nepal, for those who can afford it.

Tied for third place in the British Council Short Story Competition (15-18)

Editors Susanne von der Heide and Thomas Hoffmann Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 2001 Rs 495 These studies deal principally with features of…

Laligurans Printing Press, 2002 Rs 250 Trees play an important role in shaping our lifestyle and landscape. They not only fulfil some of our…

Indreni Offset Press, 2002 Rs 125 The author describes different divine characters, their different roles and how demons like villains of the…

All of Nepal is invited!

In the tradition of her favourite musicians, radio jockey Angelina Gurung, Angel to her listeners, has broken her share of rules. Her latest…

Prakash, 6 January

Former Justice of the Supreme Court, Krishna Jung Rayamjahi. Deshanter, 5 January

Gunaraj Luitel in Kantipur, 7 January

Foreign Minister Shailendra K Upadhyay. Saanghu, 6 January

Rajdhani, 6 January

Manju Thapa in Kantipur, 30 December

Dipendra Baduwal in Kantipur, 7 January

Even a new and little known organisation can set an example. Established only six months ago, the Poor Patients Aid Association Nepal (PPAAN)…

The all-powerful central committee of the CPN (UML) has rejected the proposal to change the structure of the party's top leadership to a…

Half the people who visit the police in Nepal are victims of corruption, a Transparency International (TI) report said. "People's Experiences in…

Nepal and the Manila-based Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed an agreement for the proposed Commercial Agriculture Development Project…

A cheque for nearly Rs 200,000 representing donations for Rabina and Rabin Regmi was handed over to the children' father, Bhakta Bahadur Regmi…

The government is preparing to not just privatise the national airlines, but also to privatise airports in Nepal. A draft regulation allowing…

Nearly 30,000 music lovers, most of them youngsters, cheered, stamped their feet and swayed in the stands at the Dasarath Stadium 4-5 January as…

Lalupate Ltd has opened a showroom "Studio Himalaya" at a new location in Helsinki nine years after starting operations in the Finnish capital.…

Mr CK Lal's towering reputation built on alternatively bashing Nepal's monarchy and Pakistani polity is only matched by his cavalier disregard…

Thanks for translating Narayan Wagle's piece ("Damn Nepal", From the Nepali Press, #125) which brings to light and shares the true human…

I am so pleased to hear that Sir Ed has chosen to be in Nepal on the occasion of the 50th annniversary of his climb ("Mt Everest, 50" # 125) And…

What's this thing about Girija Prasad Koirala, the many-time prime minister coming up with this theory about the real story of a "grand design"…

"Why Sikkim works" (#126) reinforces my suspicion that unless Nepal gets its act together by drawing on the Bhutanese and Sikkimese models and…

"Have you met any Maoists?" This was the question often posed to me by other westerners while I was in Nepal as a Peace Corps volunteer. Of…