development

Nepalis not so unhappy

Nearly half of the Nepalis are still positive about the direction the country has been going, say there has been significant progress in gender equality

Prosperous Gandaki is thriving

Rural areas of Nepal’s best performing province are better off than its towns

Sunak pledges more support for Nepal

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak commits to helping Nepal with the climate crisis and economy

West is West

Toni Hagen’s photographs of remote western Nepal from the 1950s show how much it has changed, and how much is the same

Alisha Sijapati

“Nepal suffering gross climate injustice”

Prime Minister Dahal on the climate crisis, the Ncell sale and persistent under-development

Deputies drive development in rural Nepal

Gita Adhikari, the deputy mayor of Damak, quit her job as assistant campus chief of Damak Multiple Campus when she was nominated...

All politics is local

KhotangLast year, as Nepal plunged headlong into the second wave of Covid-19, cities around the country including Kathmandu Valley announced lockdowns, and people of...

Sahina Shrestha

Things are looking up

After watching Don’t Look Up on a bootleg channel this week, the Ass has come to the happy conclusion that compared...

Ass s

COPOUT at COP26

The COP26 climate jamboree ends in Glasgow on Friday, and already it looks like the best world governments are prepared to offer...

Sonia Awale

MCC ball in Nepal’s court

“Countries knock at our doors all the time for capital, as it is getting harder and harder to obtain development funds. We...