Issue #136

The Indian ambassador to Nepal, Shyam Saran, spoke to Nepali Times on Tuesday on a wide range of issues, including the Maoist insurgency,…

Vrrrrooom. Make way for the Himalayan Enfielders.

In a dramatic court revelation, a Dutch climber's claim that he reached the top of Everest has been disproved nearly 20 years after the event.

Peace and development are two sides of the same brick. But how are we going to attain them?

Animal rights in Nepal?

Nepali Times interviewed David Wood, head of the DfID (Department for International Development) of the British government in Nepal. He spoke…

Govinda Bartaman's poetic voice is gaining strength with experience.

Jibar Joshi (PhD) Lajmana Joshi, 2003 Rs 285 This book is a revisit to basic concepts and some of the theories of regional planning. It urges…

Dr Giorgi Pkhakadze ILO and HMG Ministry of Health, 2002 Rs 150 AIDS affects workers in their productive prime, and the communities and…

Ranjana Bajracharya (PhD) Bhakta Nanda Bajracharya, 2003 Rs 200 Avalokitesvara is the most popular Bohisattva figure in Mahayana Buddhism for…

Here, where arid hills stagger toward the Tibetan Plateau, the girth of the Kali Gandaki Valley widens. And along the deepest gorge in the world is enchanting Jomsom.

Spring is here, and this is the time to visit the gateway to Mustang.

Shishir Yogi's music can be best described as "Modern Nepali folk-gazal". That automatically puts his music above the pop audience, but going by…

Budhabar, 13 March

Himal Khabarpatrika, 28 Feb-14Mar 2003

Dinesh Gaule, Himalaya Times, 11 March

Siddhartha Art Gallery is organising the first-ever exhibition of Nepali art in India by taking the works of six contemporary artists to New…

The Japan Nepal Society held a seminar in Tokyo on 8 March on "Peace-building Nepal" in which Japanese academics, students, environmentalists…

A report of the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to the forthcoming UN Commission on Human Rights in…

Small Industries Promotion Programme (SIP-P), funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Co-operation (SDC), has started a campaign to…

The much contested cola market is expanding to accommodate another contender. Varun Beverages (Nepal) will market and distribute Mountain Dew, a…

Morang Auto Works, distributor for Yamaha motorcycles for Nepal, is going to introduce its latest model, Libero, to offer customers more choice.…

Fast Foods (Nepal), a subsidiary of the Chaudhary Group, has introduced yet another instant noodle, Mama100, to the Nepali market. Available…

I agree with CK Lal's assertion in "The tarai cauldron" (#134) about the lack of representation of people from the tarai. But I don't believe in…

The speech by US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Donald Camps (#135) would be amusing if it were not so scary. For Camp to claim that the…

At the risk of being mocked by all those in the know, what exactly is a "constituent assembly"? I am pretty certain there are other ignoramuses…

I have just spent a wonderful month touring Nepal, seeing Pokhara, the Annapurnas, and Royal Bardia and Chitwan National Parks. Apart from the…

Perhaps, Nepal's politicians too could play some jazz and learn from the organizers of Jazzmandu. Girija Prasad on vocals, Madhav Kumar on…

Mr Dhawal S Rana seems to be one of the few sane voices in the rank and file of the political parties ("Preventing Peoples' War II", #135). If…