Issue #6

Nepali Times brings you the behind-the-scenes people that run Girija Prasad Koirala's office.

But, as the landslide blockage showed, the capital is dangerously dependent on just one road in and out.

The Nepali army and police benefit from UN peacekeeping roles around the world, but things can turn nasty when there is no peace to keep

The government has licensed Nepal's biggest FM radio transmitter to a private group, but critics say this goes against is own policy to use radio for development communication.

Kathmandu's health-savvy young urban professionals work up a sweat, and the fitness business responds to new demand.

Nearly half of all Nepalis need to put on more weight, and perhaps 0.05 percent need to loss some of it.

Our Social Studies. pg8, Grade X, text book

Geologist may have various reasons to believe Kathmandu Valley was once a lake, but they would not be able to match the story of Manjushri.

Kathmandu's health-savvy young urban professionals work up a sweat, and the fitness business responds to new demand.

Nearly half of all Nepalis need to put on more weight, and perhaps 0.05 percent need to loss some of it.

All advertising is about interrupting people, but in the Internet age it is about infecting people with the idea virus.

New York - The United Nations, in an attempt to bridge the digital divide between rich and poor nations, has decided to set up an Information…

Rukma Shumsher Rana

In two weeks, an 11-km track inside the Nagarjun reserve will be the scene of Nepal's first Mountain Bike Championship series. The championship…

"We were intended to be nature's creation. We're gifted with a special capacity to create and discover. But we have drifted so far from the natural world that there is a sense of loss."

Even as the issue of Kathmandu's garbage threatened to swamp the space for public debate over the past weeks, a small organisation in Kupondole…

You race the discanding darkness. The presence of the mountains doesn't leaves you, it leaves a mark on your soul forever.

At 73, activist-journalist Bhairab Risal has the energy that leaves today's young reporters panting far behind. When not doing his twice-weekly…

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First Division Tek Bahadur Chokhyal, NC Chief Whip seemed born for the job. Raghu Pant, UML Got media gag bill scrapped. Chitra Lekha Yadav, NC…

Striking bank employees returned to work last week, but the government has not given up on its plan to declare them essential services. It is…

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission here to review reforms being undertaken by the government has returned "satisfied" with the…

Barely hours before the parliament's budget session was to end on 18 August, the ruling Nepali Congress Party rammed a watered-down version of a…

It has become routine that any decision by the Royal Nepal Airlines Corporation (RNAC) ends up for scrutiny by the Parliament's Public Accounts…

The number of motor vehicles in Nepal has increased by almost four times in the past 10 years, according to the Department of Transport…

C.K. Lal (State of the State, #5) need not have shed crocodile tears for the institution of monarchy. Nothing is immortal: the universe,…

What a joy to read real news on your online edition. To keep in some small way in touch with Nepal and the Nepali people who were so generous…