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 ...

When Rajesh Siddhi, Bhaskar Dhungana and Nakim Uddin (pic, left to right) revamped and launched the standalone movie theatre QFX Jai Nepal in Kathmandu over a decade ago, little did they envision that ...

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 ...

From October to March, the scenic but impoverished district of Humla in Nepal’s north-western corner is mostly snowbound. The only greens to be seen are the conifers. The summer harvest has to see the ...

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 ...

Human rights activists have made great strides by calling attention to the practice of chhaupadi (isolation of women and girls during their periods), which killed another woman in Western Nepal this ...

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 ...

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 ...