It is ironic that a movement that voted for Karki on Discord is itself marred by discord. But such jostling was to be expected. This was an amorphous and leaderless group of young Nepalis that was ...

The September protests resulted in Rs80 billion in damage to businesses and impacted 15,000 jobs directly. The government has announced recovery measures: Affected businesses can import furniture, ...

The Reserve Bank of India is permitting SBI, ICICI, HDFC, and Axis banks to provide Indian rupee loans to individuals and banks in Nepal, Bhutan, and Sri Lanka. Although this will assist Nepalis when ...

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) and Thousand Madleens to Gaza (TMTG) said three boats had been intercepted and boarded by the Israeli military at 04:34 at 220km off Gaza in international waters ...

From their humble beginnings in 1998, Cadenza was one of the first bands to experiment with jazz in the Kathmandu Valley, a city dominated by bands playing rock and pop covers. Cadenza broke the mold ...

Bhadra Sharma is a reporter for The New York Times based in Kathmandu.

In recent decades, South Asia has witnessed increasingly frequent episodes of heavy rainfall, leading to recurrent floods in several major Indian cities which have lessons for Nepal too. For example, ...

Does the UN have any future? While the demand for it is as great as ever, its ability to deliver has obviously been diminished. There is no way for it to survive without scaling back its ambitions and ...

Just like in Nepal, young Filipinos rallying against corruption were also wary of infiltration, and it was clear from the anti-Marcos graffiti who the instigators of violence were. The GenZ were ...

The torrential rain has obstructed several highways as well as caused infrastructure damage, but no human casualties have been reported so far. Many had feared a repeat of the deadly flashfloods on 28 ...

A Calcutta firm Martin & Company surveyed and built the Nepal Government Railway (NGR) in one year at a cost of approximately 1.1 million Indian rupees. The 30 lb narrow-gauge rails, 2’ 6” apart, ...