Issue #15

The king rose from his seat and advanced to shake my hand. He was dressed in white, the loose shirting and tight cotton trousers or suruwal worn…

Two recent share offers by hotels in Kathmandu showed how desperate Nepalis are to invest. But however enticing, not all public issues of shares are as straightforward as they are made out to be. We advise buyers to beware.

The government's recent decision to withhold registration of new passenger vehicles for the Kathmandu core city area may have made environmental…

The reorganisation of states in India has one important lesson for Nepal. It is the demand for development that creates fissiparous tendencies rather than regional or linguistic chauvinism.

How some domesticated cud-chewing artiodactyl mammals of Chilean origin travelled to Godavari.

With Dasain and Tihar over and less than seven weeks to go for Christmas, Kathmandu's trinket bazaars are gearing up again for the next holiday season.

A benign king is preferable to the overhasty adoption of an already corrupted version of democracy, says the author of a new book on Himalayan kingdoms.

A teller of tales or a priest from any of the temples crowding the ghats would have said that gods and goddesses came to bathe unseen at the…

For those who can't trek up the highest mountains in the world, the accomplishment of a mountain flight is mountaineering itself.

There were a number of Japanese and Korean expeditions in Nepal this season, but it was the Europeans who stole the show.

With Dasain and Tihar over and less than seven weeks to go for Christmas, Kathmandu's trinket bazaars are gearing up again for the next holiday season.

With the end of the Dasain and Tihar festivities and the onset of winter, the Valley's sportsmen are gearing up for another round of sports…

If ever Kathmandu's elite chattering classes had a caf? culture, then the beginnings of one can be seen at Chez Caroline at Baber Mahal.…

Rabindra Shrestha in Kantipur, 19 October

Nepal Samacharpatra, 1 November

Budhabar, 25 October

Ghatana Ra Bichar, 1 November

The new chief of police, Pradeep Sumsher Rana, has admitted to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that his organisation had made a "mistake" in…

The PAC, which is also investigating a recent lease agreement between the Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation (RNAC) and Austria's Lauda Air, has…

Nepali Congress still at it The truce brokered between the warring sides in the ruling Congress Party has begun to unravel. The two factions are…

Chandra Kumar Rai and Jivan Thapa, two Nepalis serving life-sentences at Bangkwang Central Prison in Thailand, continue to languish in jail…

Competition is brewing up for the Rastriya Beema Sansthan and the National Life and General Insurance Company, the two companies that have so…

Overall tourist arrivals by air declined by 12.7 percent in the first nine months of this year compared to the corresponding period in 1999.…

Shoichiro Toyoda, a confirmed Nepalophile and the honorary chairman of Japan's Toyota Motor Corporation, arrived in Kathmandu Wednesday for a…

Hong Kong's Dragon Air resumed flights to Kathmandu on 29 October eight years after it had stopped flying the route. Initially the airline will…

Nepal's flag carrier began flying to Bangalore, an emerging pilgrimage destination for Nepalis headed for a darshan of Sai Baba at his two…

Hem Bahadur Malla, the man responsible for single-handedly improving the IQ of millions of Nepali children by managing salt-iodisation and…

It is a lie that former Kathmandu district president of the Nepali Congress, Prakash Man Singh, did not give memberships to Congress stalwarts…

Your "Roman Nepali Phonetic Guidelines for emails and chats" (# 11, p.12) is very confusing and likely to mislead readers even more. You…

Artha Beed has a point in his Economic Sense (#13) about Nepal's "1.6 syndrome" vis-?-vis India. I would say that 1.50 would be a good start to…

I read "We wanna go to America" (#13) with mixed emotions. Saddened by the fact that the Nepali men in America misled so many Nepali didis and…