Issue #160

The caretakers of the living goddess want half the income the municipality collects from tourists visiting Hanuman Dhoka.

The insurgent Maoist and a resurgent monarchy can only meet popular aspirations of the people by restoring the democratic process to the centre stage of Nepali politics.

Sultan Hafeez Rahman-Nepal country director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Nepal's cuisine is going through a gastronomic rediscovery, and is now much more than just dal bhat tarkari.

Kathmandu of exclusion

Can a Woman Rebel? Sangita Raymajhi Across Publication, 2003 Rs 500 The essays compiled in this book combine the subtle cultural and…

Nepal Who's Who 2003 Deepak Aryal (ed) Research Centre for Communication and Development, 2003 Rs 2,250 As the title suggests, this book is a…

The Kathmandu Valley Photographs by Fredrik Arvidsson Om Book Service Rs 1,450 Arvidsson's remarkable clarity is apparent in these photographs…

In the months after her husband's death in an air crash in 1992, when Lajana Manandhar felt her world had fallen apart, she decided the best way…

Girija Prasad Koirala in Deshantar, 24 August

Editorial, Kantipur, August 28

Sanghu, 25 August

Kantipur, 20 August

Annapurna Post, 24 August

Jandharana, 28 August

They're in it together. Pakistani counterfeiters and Indian gangsters are literally minting money dealing in fake and illegal Indian currency…

Both the Maoists and army grossly violated the code of conduct during the ceasefire period, according to a latest report by the human rights…

Laxmi Bank has had to exercise an early closure option after its maiden IPO of Rs 192.5 million was over-subscribed by 2.5 times. The largest…

Beijing has agreed to let Royal Nepal Airlines double its flights to China to 14 a week and begin service to Tibet, Nepal's aviation minister…

Specialty Media, publishers of the Boss, a monthly business magazine, this week announced the annual Boss Top 10 Awards for 'Business…

Air Deccan has become India's first no-frill budget airline with fares half that of Indian Airlines. The new airline will initially offer a…

A little luxury: Spiff up the smallest room in your home. There is an entire range of Chinese bathroom fixtures, tiles and accessories available…

Naresh Newar has done a commendable job with his balanced article on an issue as contentious as the privatisation of nature reserves…

Re: 'The road to Lo' by Abhishek Basnyat (#159). On a recent visit to the fabled Kingdom of Lo, we were saddened to see evidence of improved…

CK Lal's 'In the king we trust' (#158) was historically informative and contemporarily pragmatic. Nepal's monarchy remains a revered institution…

Re: Sugat Ratna Kansakar's reply (Letters, #156) to Pravesh Saria's letter (#155) regarding the indifference in NTC about extending mobile phone…

Navin Singh Khadka's informative piece on the sedimentation problem of the Kosi River ('The mother of all floods', #157) is marred by an…

It was astonishing to see the response by MS Shrestha of the Melamchi Project ('Letters', #159) to Naresh Newar's article 'What's in it for us?'…