Issue #141

Six new television channels are starting soon. But where is the audience?

A rehabilitation centre in Jorpati has just completed its first year of helping people with spinal injuries, and has shown how much more needs to be done.

In the district that is the gateway to the Maoist heartland, local people say they haven't felt so hopeful in years.

Devolution of political power would enhance Nepal's diversity, making our democracy more robust and inclusive to streng then peace.

A rehabilitation centre in Jorpati has just completed its first year of helping people with spinal injuries, and has shown how much more needs to be done.

Why not enshrine the right to rebel against an odious order as a basic human right?

"Unimaginativeness and ennui"

Gallery Nine (a collaborative venture set up by photographers, visual artists, writers, journalists and art lovers) opened this week in Lazimpat…

Oxford University Press, 2001 Rs 360 The book focuses on the processes of urbanisation and the nature of interdependence at the macro level…

Sherpa and Susan H?ivik Keep, Nepal, 2002 Rs 300 The country's rich cultural and natural heritage is explored in this book from the Kathmandu…

Awesome photographs of tigers by a hunter-turned-conservationist.

Others may just lament the destruction wrought by the insurgency, but Rita Thapa sees it as an opportunity to transform society. "This war has…

Himal Khabarpatrika, 14-28 April

Mulyankan, No 107

Surendra Kaphle in Annapurna Post, 15 April

Drishti, 15 April

A priceless 400-year-old manuscript depicting tantric energy centres of the human body was stolen from the Patan Museum on Tuesday afternoon.…

The Asian Development Bank this week approved a $1.4 million technical assistance grant to help prepare a project to improve water supply and…

Although the actual number of conflict widows is sketchy, a study conducted by Nagarik Aawaz estimates the most affected were women between the…

Population Services International (PSI) is all set to use commercial marketing tools for social marketing. Their aim-to make "Number One"…

Prominent Nepalis from the arena of cinema, music, sports and literature will be on air starting this week in a programme syndicated through 11…

The government finally issued licences to two companies to operate satellite phone services in Nepal, ending the state monopoly in the…

Shree Distillery has launched its new product Bond Black Label, a mixture of ENA (extra neutral alcohol) and scotch malt. The distillery said…

Kitchen Trading Concern promises to bring American luxury to Nepali households. Aftron brand televisions, refrigerators and stoves will be made…

Krishi Premura promises a risk-free, inexpensive, fast and reliable service for Nepalis abroad who want to send money home. The company is…

It was another of those committees formed to cure the ailing national flag carrier. But, this one ended on a different note: don't privatise the…

Despite Nepal's incredible hardships, and the misery that we the people have been subjected to because of decades of bad governance, what never…

CK Lal's 'Beyond the iron gate' (#139) was relevant, and extremely prescient. I am fascinated by the reaction and passion that Mr Lal's pieces…

Ram Sharan Mahat's piece ('Incremental appeasement', #138) while rightly considering the Maoists as opportunists (like any other political…

Daniel Lak's most recent column tells it like it is. I am astounded at the arrogant brutality and cynical deception being perpetrated by 'my'…

Among the people who are writing letters to your paper, I notice a certain impatience with the peace process. They shouldn't worry too much…

CK Lal is his usual mean and cynical self in his review of the book, Peoples' War in Nepal: Left Perspectives by Arjun Karki and David Seddon…