Issue #226

One month after rising up against the Maoists, Dailekh's villagers fear for their lives

Krishna Shah

Gaidakot's citizens force closure of polluting paper plant and allow it to reopen after clean-up guarantee.

It should be legal for men to have sex with men and women to have sex with women, should they want to

On 18 January the Supreme Court will make a landmark ruling on the legal status of homosexuality in Nepal

A top Nepali carpet exporter, Senon D Lama (below, posing with his carpets at a Versace signature room in Paris) is optimistic that the carpet…

Nepal's rug industry has staged a dramatic comeback and this time it is with value, not volume

A top Nepali carpet exporter, Senon D Lama (below, posing with his carpets at a Versace signature room in Paris) is optimistic that the carpet…

Nepal's rug industry has staged a dramatic comeback and this time it is with value, not volume

Priceless works of art by a Pakistani master are traced to Nepal

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Entente Cordiale, France and Britain celebrated the treaty with a friendly elephant polo match in Chitwan

After graduating from St Xavier's in Kathmandu, unlike most Nepali men Jaya Thapa decided he liked to cook. It was a passion nurtured since…

REMEMBERING A KING: Rastriya Ekta Parishad celebrates the 85th birth anniversary of late King Mahendra on Thursday by garlanding his statue…

Interview with Sachhit Shamsher JB Rana, coordinator, Raj Parishad Central Conference Nepal, 19 December

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Prakash Sharan Mahat in Nepal Samacharpatra, 15 December

Dristi, 14 December

Editorial, Rajdhani, 13 December

Nepal Samacharpatra, 13 December

Buddhabar, 15 December

UNDP's annual Human Development Report released on Wednesday hopes to put the debate about which comes first, peace or development, finally to…

The Pugwash conference in the capital on the nearly six decades old Kashmir dispute put Nepal in the limelight. More so because the participants…

At the end of its three-day visit to Kathmandu, a tripartite EU delegation on 15 December urged all democratic and constitutional forces to…

Pashupati paints recently introduced a fully computerised automatic tinting machine called Colour Bajar. This latest technology will be used for…

Gurkha Development Bank (Nepal) Limited, started by a group of ex-British Gurkhas, was inaugurated on 12 December. It has begun banking…

For this fiscal year, Bank of Kathmandu has declared a dividend of 20 percent to its shareholders, half of which will be rewarded in cash and…

Asian Thai Foods, the distributor of 2PM noodles has begun its '2PM scratch and match offer'. Each packet of noodle has a coupon with six…

What's smoking: Surya Nepal has launched Shikhar Lights, a lighter version of Shikhar Filter Kings. The new Shikhar Lights is supposed to be…

Thank you Rajendra Pradhan ('Indifferent to differences', #224) for calling a spade a spade. It was time somebody pointed out what was what to…

Your editorial ('Don't do it', #225) exemplifies the myopia of Nepal's liberal pseudo-democrats who have lost sight of what 'civil liberties'…

When Canadians served George Bush beef at a state dinner, they were at least making a point about their BSE-free cows. If we were to follow…

Your translations of articles from the Nepali press are helpful for not just the only-English readers who have keen interest in contemporary…

The western press, as with western politicians, tries to magnify the problems of the developing world and make a case for foreign intervention…

I read Raghu Pant's guest column with considerable interest ('A monarchy's morality', #225), where he asks other Asian monarchs to emulate…