Houses built by the Chinese as seen from Lapcha Pass in 2016 with Lake Mansarovar visible in the distance. Photograph of the same place last…
The dispute over the Farakka Barrage that India built near the Bangladesh border on the Ganges in 1975 was finally resolved through bilateral…
When Chinese social media posted photographs last month of engineers surveying the extension of the Tibet Railway, one of the images showed Mt…
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIPolitically and geopolitically, it is a bit chaotic in Nepal these days. This is the result of an internal power…
No one knows for sure how many Nepali workers are in India at any given time, but an estimated 600,000 came back because of the COVID-19 crisis.…
Nepali Times issue #1The #1 print edition of Nepali Times of 19-25 July 2000 shows that even though much has changed in Nepal in the past two…
Nepal’s Communist Party leaders must take note of two events that unfolded in India this week: the roaring welcome to US President Donald Trump…
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIIt is the biggest amount granted to Nepal for a specific project by a bilateral development partner. But the…
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAILegend has it that the real reason Nepal stayed an independent nation state while all around us were colonised was…
Photo : KUNDA DIXITNew Russian Ambassador to Nepal, Aleksei A Novikov, spoke to Nepali Times about the prospect of high-level visits by Russian…
Ram Sharan Mahat, former foreign and finance minister of the Nepali Congress, has published an important book that serves as an explainer and…
A modified political map of India has created an uproar in Nepal, with street demonstrations and debates in Parliament. Nepalis appear to be…
RIGHT SIDE UP: This map of South Asia by Himal Southasia magazine in which ‘north’ is reversed to force a different perspective on the nation…
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIAs a ceremonial head of state, President Bidya Devi Bhandari’s weeklong visit to China that began on Wednesday is…
Nothing has exposed the ideological chasm between the ex-UML and ex-Maoist components of the ruling Nepal Communist Party (NCP) more than the…
Dam site of Upper Karnali hydropower (900 MW) in Daab in Dailekh district. Indian company GMR is in final stage to start construction of the…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-sFnHEoH5U&t=63sAsk a person in China about Nepal, and the answer is mostly that it is a happy Himalayan…
The book Another South Asia! with an assertive exclamation mark in its title requires one to pause, and step back to recall what is South Asia,…
SOUTH TO NORTH: India’s lavish welcome for PM-in-waiting Pushpa Kamal Dahal (above) was in sharp contrast to the lukewarm treatment in Beijing…
Madhav Basnet in Nepal, 14 SeptemberIn the four months since the NCP formed the government, its co-chair Prachanda (Pushpa Kamal Dahal) has only…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThat the fourth BIMSTEC summit would be declared a “success” was a foregone conclusion because there wasn’t really much…
Diwakar ChettriNow that the leaders of the awkwardly acronymed BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic…
