Nepali Times
Learning to reconstruct
Volunteers from around the world are filling the gap left by the government in helping rebuild quake-damaged schools
Bidur (Nuwakot), January 6, 2017:Â Brought up in...
Strawberry story
Unique cooperative brings together Japanese entrepreneurship and hardworking Nepali farmers
Nuwakot, December 30, 2016: While Japan’s high-profile highway projects in Nepal get all the attention,...
Remote comer of Nepal’s remotest district
Picture:Â Hilsa is a study in contrast between the Chinese side with its paved road, electricity, telecom towers and buildings, with the decrepit facilities and...
The electric age
The Kia Soul finally makes driving battery cars comfortable and affordable in Kathmandu
As a journalist writing on environmental issues, being seen driving an electric...
Nepal-China trade goes online
Picture: Yanli Wu’s courier company in Thamel provides services to more than 30 Daigou shopping agents.
Daigou sellers turn to WeChat and TaoBao to sell...
Getting used to electricity again
To tell you frankly, I’m getting sick and tired of listening to many of you who have held forth at every possible wedding reception...
The gods will be angry
In the remote mountains of western Nepal, women still deliver babies in dirty, cold and stuffy cowsheds.
Seminars in Kathmandu debate gender, reproductive rights and...
#IWalkFreely
Survey reveals young women in Nepal are exposed to greater dangers than just cat calls and wolf whistles.
That women are harassed at home, in...
Healing Langtang
Conserving culture: The site of the museum in Kyanjin near where prayer flags mark a memorial for each person who died in the 2015...
First the good news about Melamchi
Water from Melamchi will finally flow out of Kathmandu taps, but not everywhere.
Nearly two decades after Nepal initiated a multi-million dollar project to bring...
The maxium pilot (Obitury)
Nepal's tourism industry has lost a devoted professional.
Capt Alexander Maximov exuded professionalism with every step and gesture as he did the pre-flight check of...
From Potti to Prakash
LONG ROAD HOME: Potti on the final stretch of his trip home to his village in Achham. As ‘Prakash’ he is reunited with his...
Shadowing Prachanda
Picture: Baburam Bhattarai was reinstated after the Chunbang meeting, and his proposal to combine forces with the seven-party alliance was adopted. He is seen...
The guardian of the shadows
Austrian architect Götz Hagmüller’s forthcoming memoir promises to be a homage to Kathmandu Valley’s heritage
Austrian architect and filmmaker Götz Hagmüller sits on his porch...
The business of entrepreneurship
With the amount spent even before they get the visa, students planning to study in the US can easily start a viable business at...
Jumla gets nearer
A district long considered poor and neglected is catching up with the rest of Nepal
Utter the word “Jumla†in Kathmandu, and the questions are...
An eye for Kathmandu
A Day in the Life of Kathmandu, a photographic portrait of Kathmandu.
Being posted to their Embassy in Kathmandu seems to be a great career...
Grabbing them by their listicles
There is not a week that goes by these days that Nepal doesn’t make it to some internet listicle or other. The latest honours...
Picture this
National Geographic photo editor Patrick Witty is at Photo Kathmandu to talk about visuals
At one of numerous talks he gave at an international festival...
Made in Nepal (Feature Story)
Nepal-made products are steadily gaining visibility and recognition around the world
When discussing products from Nepal, the first things that usually come to mind are...
Food for thinking
Nutritious Learning: Students line up for their mid-day meal at Mahadev Primary School in Sunkada, Bajhang.
It turns out gender discrimination is a good thing...
Asan at Dasain
At festival time, Asan is not just full of shoppers but also tourists who come to observe the shoppers
At nine in the morning as...
Married in school
Rama Bista’s day starts early in the morning. The 15-year-old daughter-in-law has to attend to household chores and fetch fodder for cattle before heading out...
No women’s land
WOMEN IN WAR: Kushal Rakshak, an ex-guerrilla profiled by journalist Deepak Adhikari in the book, faced discrimination and abuse within the Maoist army.
New book...
