The two estranged sibling nations have a common enemy to battle in 2025: lethal air pollution
Soap operas were created for housewives, who would watch them after putting their day’s work to rest, as though visiting old friends in the emptiness of their days
A Nepali emergency physician with a passion for Urdu couplets wows Pakistanis
Photos: AMIT MACHAMASIEveryone in Kathmandu knows we breathe some of the dirtiest air in the world. As if we needed any more proof, a new study…
Tilicho Lake in Manang. The SAARC member states are among the countries most at risk from effects of climate change, yet a regional approach to…
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIAlthough the undernutrition rate in Nepal has dropped dramatically in the past two decades, a quarter of its children still…
About 250 years ago when King Prithivi Narayan Shah made Kathmandu the capital of unified Nepal, he realised that the city had great potential…
As the Delta variant spreads death and disruption across South Asia, prominent public health experts have said Covid-19 cannot be defeated…
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThis op-ed is being simultaneously published in the Indian Express (India), The Daily Star (Bangladesh), Nepali Times…
It was a hazy December morning in 1971 at the strategic Chicken Neck frontline between India and what was then East Pakistan. Dhan Bahadur Rai…
First photo of the Nepalis on the summit of K2 at 5pm on 16 January. Sona Sherpa on the top with the conical shadow of the mountain behind him.…
PM of India. Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAISince China launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to connect and integrate the Afro-Eurasian…
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…
Photo : UNICEFLast month, the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a study of the successful trial of a new typhoid vaccine…
India Airlines Airbus300 that was hijacked on 24 December 1999 at Afghanistan's Kandahar airport.The world was waiting with bated breath for all…
Opening Ceremony. All Photos: BIKRAM RAI and MONIKA DEUPALA Women's boxing under 54kg: Nepal vs India A Nepali cyclists at the Road Cycling…
Photos: BIKRAM RAI and RSSThe highlights of the third day of the South Asian Games included India's domination of the athletic events and…
Photos: BIKRAM RAI AND RSSThe second day of the 13th South Asian Games saw Nepali athletes dominate the arena, with most wins in taekwondo and…
Chair of Film South Asia Kanak Mani Dixit with musician Amrit Gurung. Photo: FILM SOUTH ASIAFrom the inaugural documentary Indus Blues, it…
Trekking is evolving fast on once remote east Nepal routes
Photo: PETER DEANIf there is one book you must set aside, either for new year holiday reading or as a Christmas gift to a fellow traveller, it…
Harish Trivedi, Jury Chair of the DSC Prize 2019, at the Shortlist Announcement event in LondonThe 2019 shortlist of books for the annual DSC…
Film Southasia is held every two years, and in 2019 the theme of the festival of documentary films says it all: ‘Where the Mind Is Free’.…
If you enjoyed Mohammed Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes, it will have prepared you for another scathing satire from the Pakistani novelist…
