Issue #241

Maintaining Nepal's roads is not easy but it is made easier by lengthworkers

A mission to make their world a better place

The government is launching an ambitious campaign to get more children enrolled in school and keep them there

More than 80 percent of school-going Nepali children never complete Grade 10, they deserve a second chance

He wanted his Lumbini masterplan to be a tribute to world peace

Once he said he'd change the world but it changed him instead

Go karts arrive and bring new thrills to an entertainment starved Valley

JB Pun Magar has always been tempted to jump straight into the lion's den. Son of a Gorkha soldier in the Assam Rifles, he probably inherited…

The thing about having an underground girlfriend is that you can never call her

Samaya, 31 April

Kapil Kafle in Rajdhani, 26 March

Rajdhani, 28 March

Himal Khabarpatrika, 29 March-13 April

Despite the requirement under the state of emergency only to broadcast music, some FM stations are openly flouting the rule. They are…

BANGKOK-Nepal expects the United States will ultimately resume its military assistance to fight Maoists despite its criticism of the takeover by…

Human rights organisations have used the 61st UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva to make stinging criticism of the country's human rights…

The Supreme Court 's refusal Friday to issue an interim injunction preventing the government from implementing a harsh royal decree has angered…

Although the government has allowed Indian joint venture UTL to resume its wireless phone service to re-registered customers, it hasn't allowed…

India's leading tour operator Sita Inbound has shelved plans to acquire a travel management firm in Nepal and is now focussing on Sri Lanka and…

Dabur India has decided to increase stake in its subsidiary Dabur Nepal from 80 percent to 97.5 percent and invest Rs 370.66 million in Dabur…

Prakash Karki, a tempo driver, has won Rs 1 lakh in the Jojo Lucky Seven scheme of Jojo noodles. Karki matched all seven pairs of numbers listed…

The condemnation of the royal proclamation by the international community has mystified the Nepali people about the agenda of our country's…

Bhutani refugees certainly deserve better treatment both from Nepal and the international community as Kanak Mani Dixit argues in his Southasia…

I read with great interest Kunda Dixit's chronicle of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia (Memories of a holocaust', #239). Nepal could unfortunately be…

It is unfortunate that better quality journals like yours have been lumped together with the gutter press and suffer from censorship due to the…

Why isn't anyone jumping up and down about the appalling slaughter of trees seen everywhere in Kathmandu? When asked, the contractors of KMC say…

The photograph of hundreds of women on the steps of a temple that accompanied your poll ('What people say', #239) was beautiful. I want to know…