Prithvi Narayan Shah built the imposing fortress palace in Nuwakot in 1762 as he swept eastwards towards Kathmandu Valley as part of the conquests that led to the formation of the nation state of ...

In May, when the last cabinet meeting of the Maoist government awarded a $2.5 billion contract for the 1,200MW Budi Gandaki hydroelectric project to a Chinese company without competitive bidding, it ...

being given a much-needed facelift by the Tourism Ministry. This temple was first built by the great Nepali prime minister and army commander Bhim Sen Thapa, Gen Ochterloney\'s valorous opponent ...

Exactly a hundred years ago in May 1915 the allied forces, stiffened by reinforcements from the Indian 29th Brigade, which included three Nepali Gurkha battalions, clustered on the beaches of ...

Over the past 30 years I have worked with Nepalis in the field of gender and education. Although a lot of progress has been made, much more needs to be done. The gender movement has grown with events ...

Culture is inextricably interwoven with nature in Nepal, but this connection is being slowly lost. Indigenous groups are being forced away from their cultural and natural heritage because they are ...

A decade after Nepal was declared a federal republic, most Nepalis still do not know what federalism means and how it will work. This is one of the most startling revelations from the latest ...

The debate about ‘Foreign Aid’ continues as we try to analyse if overseas assistance has indeed helped Nepal, or if it has made the country weaker. A development cooperation report published by the ...

Ashutosh Tiwari caught up with Sarah Chayes, the author of Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security Sarah Chayes is a senior fellow in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the ...

Sloth bears Rangeela and Sridevi had their noses pierced with a hot iron rod and a rope tied through the cavity when they were both seven months old. But thanks to the efforts of the Nepal police ...

Till now, the most interesting archaeological finds in Upper Mustang were sky caves containing human remains 1,500 years old, and scriptures and textiles suggesting the region’s links to the ancient ...

Clad in a hefty down jacket and a pair of rugged jeans, Nisha Budha looks like an average Kathmandu urbanite. But she is anything but average. Born in a village near Jumla Bazar, Budha grew up in a ...