Issue #2

"You can always be injured if you are fighting for justice and truth. I am willing to be hurt."

"The announcement was so sudden that nobody knows what exactly to do next."

Following the government's announcement declaring the end of the Kamaiya system (of which bonded labour was a part), the power elite of…

Subscription to Radisson Hotel's 1.25 million ordinary shares opened on Tuesday. This came about just 18 months after the hotel began…

The last day of its two-month journey around Patan, the Rato Machhendranath chariot had only another 30 metres to go. Unfortunately, one of the…

If there is one time of the year when thoughts turn to buying a car, it is during the rains.

Chicken Run is a rare hand-crafted plasticine gem, a feat of clay.

The Nepali music band Sur Sudha recently returned home after completing a 40-day tour of the UK,

Politics of Culture: a Study of Three Kirata Communities in the Eastern Himalayas

All ye diehard Bollywood haters, good sulk. Hindi movies have seen dakus of all whiskers, but the bad guys who stalks this Ram Gopal Varma…

Visitors to Kathmandu are invariably told that the great Rana palaces that rise like huge wedding cakes above the lesser confections of the…

If there is one time of the year when thoughts turn to buying a car, it is during the rains.

King Birendra is back from his annual health checkup at the Cromwell Hospital in London. His Majesty had been admitted to the hospital for…

Nepal has not yet entered the real e-conomy, but some businesses have already seen the future.

Contest2win Nepal (nepal.c2w.com) defines itself as a "one stop contest shop which offers online contests to its registered members". What this…

Nepal's under-17 cricket team has been bowled out of the ICC Under-17 Asia Cup that was held in Pakistan last week. Ten teams from Pakistan, Sri…

Four national athletics records were broken in the two-day National Open Athletic Tournament held 15-16 July in the Dashrath Rangashala in…

There are out-of-the-way places that no one goes to and there are out-of-the-way places that everyone goes to. Gosainkunda during the monsoon is…

Himalaya Times, 23 July 2000

Deshantar, 23 July 2000

Based on various reports in Nepali Newspapers, July 22, 2000 The nation paid homage to Late B.P. Koirala on the 18th B. P. Koirala Memorial Day.…

Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya, foreign minister during the last days of the Panchayat,

As the police withdraw from vulnerable forward bases, the Maoists are moving in to fill the vacuum in four western districts: Rolpa, Rukum,…

Interview with DIG Rajendra Bahadur Singh

We went looking for the Nepali People's Army in the forests, a five-hour walk from Khalanga, and when we met up with them, the Commander agreed…

The army has now moved into areas known as Maoist-affected. At first villagers would run away from them, but they now view the army as their…

Kodak Is giving Nepal one last chance. The US$ 6 million US-India joint venture in Nepal may decide to pack up and leave in a few weeks if it…

The prime minister's planned return to Nepal on board the inaugural Royal Nepal Airlines flight from Bangalore on 4 August has been scrapped…

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