Issue #71

Estimating the number of people with HIV/AIDS in Nepal is as tricky a business as making predictions about the future of the epidemic.

It can be intimidating to design and construct modern buildings in a location like Kathmandu Valley, where centuries of highly refined…

A new report from the Panos Institute, London, titled Birth rights: new approaches to safe motherhood, highlights the fact that since 1987, when…

It took a suspension of civil liberties to make us realise we still risk losing the ethos of multiparty politics.

Excerpts from the letter sent by Gerry Fox, Director, Asia & Pacific Program of Amnesty International to Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba this week.

Donors are watching keenly to see what gets cut.

Jayprakash Prasad Gupta-Minister of Information and Communication

Frank Wisner is a former US ambassador to Egypt, the Philippines and India. He is currently executive vice-chairman of American International…

Padma Jyoti

What is so special about Christopher Grider, dancer?

Pacifist Poems at a Time of War

Muna Bhandari is 24, married, and worries about whether her Caterpillar is leaking engine oil. We in the Valley may be used to female Safa tempo…

As preparations for the football World Cup get underway, England worries about playing indoors, and the Japanese about airplane attacks.

Belated news from Britain of Dina Gurung who ran the London Marathon and raised ?2,100 for various charities, including the Pahar Trust and…

Padma Jyoti

Himal Khabarpatrika, 1-15 December

Jana Aastha, 28 November

Himal Khabarpatrika, 1-15 December

Ghatana Ra Bichar, 28 November

Bimarsa, 30 November

The news may find few believers in these cold wintry days, but scientists say Kathmandu Valley is actually heating up?in global warming terms.…

Last week the government issued a 13-point list of guidelines to the media specifying what can and what cannot be done in an emergency. (See…

Almost two years after Macau, first a colony and then a protectorate of Portugal, was handed back to China, Sheetal Niwas had not figured out…

Nepal generates printing business worth over Rs 4 billion every year. But, the Nepal Printing Industries Association says, over Rs 3 billion of…

The government has decided to let the Rastriya Beema Sansthan (National Insurance Company) pick up all uncovered risks after private insurers…

India has decided to keep the trade treaty that was to have expired on 5 December intact for another three months, up to 5 March. Both sides now…

Nepal and China have finally agreed on a mechanism to get Chinese tourists to Nepal. The requirements for visitors to come to China's only…

It was expected, but here are the painful figures. Tourist arrivals in November were down 43 percent compared with the same period last year,…

During the last two years I have visited Nepal four times. It is with sadness that I am reading about the violence in Nepal. You have one of the…

Thank you for the lovely article by Padam Ghale (“Mero pyaro Kangchen-junga”, #70). The Arun and Tamur valleys, as he says, are indeed a…

It came as a surprise to me to find how honest immigration officials at Tribhuvan International Airport ask for donations. I arrived in Katmandu…

I was really impressed by the courage of Rajiv Kafle to come out in the open with his HIV status in a place like Nepal (“Who will look after…

Can I raise a small voice of dissent to all the hate mail that Kunda Dixit seems to be getting for his satire column, Under My Hat. I have a…

I have been reading the letters column in Nepali Times, and am impressed with the feedback and comments you get. However, it is with dismay that…