Binita Duwadi and Bhim Bahadur Bishwakarma from Dhading fell in love and got married. The only problem: Binita’s Brahmin family did not approve of her inter-caste marriage with a Dalit boy. They ...

This week, the Supreme Court ruled on the most eagerly awaited case concerning the legality of the suspended Chief of the Commission for the Investigation of the Abuse of Authority (CIAA) Lokman Singh ...

Jigme Dorje Palbar Bista, the King of Lo, or Upper Mustang, died in Kathmandu on 16 December. He was 86, and had ruled his kingdom for more than half a century with equanimity. We shared an affinity ...

Standing in front of rows of neatly aligned glass jars, Gyatso Bista (pictured, right) runs his hands over the shelf and inspects each of the labels posted on it. Coming from five generations of ...

The Chunbang conference in 2005 was a watershed moment in the Maoist conflict. The war had been going on for nine years, and the revolution was losing momentum. Prachanda brought forward a proposal to ...

Nepal's conflict had been going on for four years, the violence was spreading out from the Maoist ‘base areas’ of the mid-western mountains to other parts of the country. Teachers, farmers, students ...

Anita, 44, started withdrawing from the social scene. She started gaining weight. She said she had misplaced the joy in her life. She was depressed, but people thought she would get over it. She did ...

When one of Asia’s richest men whose family fortune came from electric power flew into Kathmandu in his own Gulfstream 3 executive jet last week, some thought he was here to invest in hydropower. Sir ...

In 1989, the Rajiv Gandhi-led government imposed an economic blockade against Nepal because of a dispute over transit treaties and its uneasiness over Nepal’s growing closeness with China. As the ...

No one is better placed to pen the history of the rise and fall of the Ranas than Sagar S.J.B. Rana. He is a family insider and political outsider, an Oxford-educated great grandson of Prime Minister ...

The Ecuriel helicopter of Fishtail Air had just taken off from Gamgadhi army base on the shores of Lake Rara at 11.25AM. It circled to gain altitude, and suddenly plunged down into the icy waters.

If we had to do it all over again, and somehow we could go back to 1952 to plan Nepal's future, what would we do differently? Harnessing hydroelectricity for transportation would be high on the list.