Gyalbu Tamang had spent the night in Langtang village for a prayer vigil, and was on his way back to his home in Kyanjin, ...

Avenues tv journalist Suresh Rajak, who died last Friday as he was filming the pro-monarchy protests from a building that was eventually set on fire by royalist rioters. Sujani Magiya was busy ...

ROYAL MESS: Office buildings vandalised and set on fire at Tinkune, the building on the left is the one in which Avenues TV journalist Suresh Rajak was killed after rioters set fire to it. Photo: ...

Kathmandu ground to a halt on Friday as pro- and anti-monarchy protests rocked separate parts of the capital. While the Socialist Front led by the Maoist Centre Party held a large rally in the centre ...

Usually in winter, air quality in Kathmandu is equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. But wildfires raging across central Nepal for the past weeks may have increased that to four packs a ...

Transport is one of the biggest and fastest-growing sources of carbon emissions in Nepal where private cars and motorcycles make up 87% of the registered vehicles and 37% of the total emissions.

The former Bogota mayor Enrique Peñalosa who implemented a successful bus rapid transit system for his city once said: “Democracy can be measured by the width of a country’s sidewalks.” To this, we ...

Nepali films have in the past often portrayed women in limited, one-dimensional roles: selfless mothers, obedient wives, or victims of abuse. Nepal’s very first feature film, Ama was a pioneering ...

A high-level meeting between the energy secretaries of Nepal and India last month agreed to build six high-voltage cross-border transmission lines to facilitate the export of up to 18,000MW of ...

Dasain crowd in Kathmandu amidst the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021. Photo: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVE 777,593,567. That is the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases worldwide before they stopped being reported ...

WHAT'S BREWING: Santosh Timalsina started training in coffee machine repairs even before returning from Korea, and now runs a successful business in Nepal. The Korea Employment Permit Scheme (EPS) is ...

The World Bank has released its quinquennial Nepal report that shows the country has done well at eradicating extreme poverty, mainly through remittances. However, it can still drive stronger growth ...