Issue #61

Tourism to Nepal and the region takes a hard knock amidst fears of US retaliation.

Chairman Mao died twenty five years ago this month. Or did he? His name is still evoked with reverence in such revolutionary backwaters as Peru…

More Nepalis are having sex-younger, before and even outside marriage.

RNAC's cancellation of aircraft leases requires the most urgent attention.

By trying to outdo the Maoists, the Congress is showing the same tendency to wreck something that works rather than fix something that doesn't.

Young and idealistic American volunteers are drawn back to a Nepal that changed their lives.

The government is spending Rs 120 million on a new IT Park in Banepa. So why are industry professionals so unexcited?

Swiss Foreign Minister Joseph Deiss is coming to South Asia on a three-state visit to Nepal, Bhutan and India. Swiss sources say the planned…

The government is spending Rs 120 million on a new IT Park in Banepa. So why are industry professionals so unexcited?

Chungpo Tsering's charcoals are as much about imagination as reality.

For years Shashi Shah has painted horses and Basta Gopal Vaidya, temples. This week, a significant body of work of both artists is on view at…

So you think that great little project you had in mind might be a bit too small for your status? You're wrong. Just ask Hajuri Bista. Hajuri,…

Drishti, Editorial, 18 September

Excerpts from an interview with Girija Prasad Koirala

Chhalphal, 9 September

Prachanda's statement:

Deshanter Saptahik, 15 September

Dristi, 18 September

Earlier this year shocked Nepalis learnt that on average 12 of their compatriots employed in Persian Gulf countries die every month. But the…

KP Singh, India's Intelligence Bureau (IB) chief, said last week in a potentially controversial disclosure that relations between Nepal and…

Three Nepali banks are in Asiaweek's list of the top 500 banks in the Asia Pacific. The magazine has Nepal Grindlays Bank (now Standard…

Here's some good news for Nepali consumers. The Department of Food Technology and Standard Control has set up an anti-food adulteration hotline.…

Nepal's 15th commercial bank, the Kumari Bank Ltd (KBL), opened formally last week. The KBL promises customers from all segments of the…

No more waiting in tea-shops and scalding your throat trying to grab a quick cuppa. Vending machines that enable you to enjoy a cup of tea or…

CK Lal in "Greatness and goodness" (#59) attempts to put BP Koirala on a pedestal. He could have done so without bringing Dr Dilli Raman Regmi…

Ram Limbu (Letters, #59) says CK Lal ignores what Camus once said about Sartre being a revolutionary in the bistros of Paris. Sartre never…

Puskar Bhusal's commentary on corruption ("Corruption index", #60) is puzzling. Why does he ask us to empathise with the motives of the corrupt?…

As a Nepali living in the US, I mourn for the many innocent lives lost in the barbaric acts of terrorism on 11 September. While I totally…

Finally, the media and the government seem to see the urgency of reporting Maoist atrocities all over the country. Nothing happens in this…