global-pandemic

Nepal hopes for tourism rebound in 2021

The availability of Covid-19 vaccines, a recent decrease in fatality rates in India and Nepal, and inquiries from travelers seeking to get...

Jabs and jab-nots

The first lot of 1 million Covishield vaccines donated by the Indian government to Nepal as part of its good-neighbourly ‘Vaccine Maitri’...

Buddha Basnyat

Rowing across the Atlantic to help Nepal schools

The four crew members have completed military tours in combat zones, rowed the North Pacific, ran the Marathon De Sable and climbed...

Rowing across the Atlantic to help Nepal schools

The four crew members have completed military tours in combat zones, rowed the North Pacific, ran the Marathon De Sable and climbed...

The lost ‘Covid Generation’

The Covid-19 infection rate in Nepal is much higher in younger age groups but most fatalities are of people in their sixties...

When will Nepal’s Covid vaccine turn come?

With the pre-winter resurgence of Covid-19 around the world and in Nepal, pressure is mounting on governments to procure vaccines to protect...

Sonia Awale

This year's dangerous Dasain

The coronavirus used to be imported, from Europe, China or India. No more. It is now here among us, and this Dasain...

Home alone in Dasain

Nepal has long relied on foreign remittances to keep its economy afloat. These remittances, sent back by men who work in Malaysia,...

Covid-19 will get worse before it gets better

Nepal’s capital has run out of affordable ICU care for Covid-19 patients, but public health experts warn that the worst is yet...

Running to remain in place

The vote of no-confidence this week by former UML leaders of the Nepal Communist Party of (NCP) in Karnali Province against the...