A lower than usual turnout in Sunday’s elections in Nepal signals voter apathy, and could favour non-establishment parties.An Election Official…
Chinimaya lama with her two children. All photos: ANITA BHETWALChinimaya Lama, 30, cannot walk up the slope to fetch water for her livestock.…
As Nepal enters the last lap in federal and provincial races, candidates and their cadres seem more excited than voters. Across the Inner Tarai…
In July, a new Facebook page uploaded a poster of six of Nepal’s top political leaders — Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and former Prime…
Manushi Yami Bhattarai, daughter of Maoist leaders Baburam Bhattarai and Hisila Yami, followed her family’s footsteps into politics as a student…
Let us make our voices heard in the November elections for cleaner politics and cleaner air
The Himal Media Mela 2022 continued on Saturday following the keynote address of Ravish Kumar, group editor of NDTV India.The day-long…
Keynote speaker Ravish Kumar, senior editor of NDTV India. All photos: AMIT MACHAMASIRavish Kumar, group editor of NDTV India, opened the Himal…
A loudspeaker cut through the early morning silence in Chandragiri Municipality on Wednesday as a pickup bounced along an alley, blaring…
Illegal sand mining on Chure rivers displaces farmers, decimates a fragile landscape
Besides defending its title as the most corrupted country in South Asia, Nepal has belatedly also been recognised in the Guinness Book as having…
If it was clear that the UML convention last month was actually the party’s first election rally, it is even more evident during this week’s…
Nepalis are wondering who won and who lost after the Supreme Court on 7 March effectively ruled that the Nepal Communist Party revert to its…
The tit-for-tat show of force between rival factions of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) continued on Friday with Prime Minister K P Oli…
As hundreds of thousands of Nepali youngsters leave the country in search of greener pastures, a trickle have started to return with the…
A blue election observer flak jacket worn by former US President Jimmy Carter in Nepal’s 2013 Constituent Assembly poll has fetched $10,000 at a…
Swiss Ambassador Elisabeth von Capeller Oswald is on her second diplomatic stint in Nepal after also serving as assistant director of the Swiss…
When Nepali Times decided last month to profile a dozen model mayors, we had no idea how difficult the job was going to be. There were not that…
