Competition is brewing up for the Rastriya Beema Sansthan and the National Life and General Insurance Company, the two companies that have so…
A teller of tales or a priest from any of the temples crowding the ghats would have said that gods and goddesses came to bathe unseen at the…
The new chief of police, Pradeep Sumsher Rana, has admitted to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) that his organisation had made a "mistake" in…
The king rose from his seat and advanced to shake my hand. He was dressed in white, the loose shirting and tight cotton trousers or suruwal worn…
They joked, they drank tea and they shared biscuits. Deputy Prime Minister Ram Chandra Poudel was in a relaxed Tihar mood. He quipped that he…
It is a lie that former Kathmandu district president of the Nepali Congress, Prakash Man Singh, did not give memberships to Congress stalwarts…
Nepal Samacharpatra, 1 November
Nepal's flag carrier began flying to Bangalore, an emerging pilgrimage destination for Nepalis headed for a darshan of Sai Baba at his two…
With Dasain and Tihar over and less than seven weeks to go for Christmas, Kathmandu's trinket bazaars are gearing up again for the next holiday season.
The government's recent decision to withhold registration of new passenger vehicles for the Kathmandu core city area may have made environmental…
Corruption rules. It determines what flies over our heads and what is driven on our roads.
OK, everyone, back to work. The fun and games are over for now. Or, are they? By the looks of it, we are headed for another four-day forced…
The Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal 2047 (1990) has been criticised by a vocal minority on all sides of the political spectrum. The right…
There are quite simply too many demands made on our limited time in this cyber-driven, obsessive web-based world we live in. No time for reflection, contemplation, medication, vegetation or an afternoon nap.
Overall tourist arrivals by air declined by 12.7 percent in the first nine months of this year compared to the corresponding period in 1999.…
Shoichiro Toyoda, a confirmed Nepalophile and the honorary chairman of Japan's Toyota Motor Corporation, arrived in Kathmandu Wednesday for a…
I read "We wanna go to America" (#13) with mixed emotions. Saddened by the fact that the Nepali men in America misled so many Nepali didis and…
Two weeks after the Dasain feasting, Nepalis (at least those who can afford it) will be gorging themselves once again. After all it is Tihar,…
Even before it began banking services, Kumari Bank Ltd has been mired in controversy, apparently due to a boardroom dispute that has now reached…
If war is the continuation of politics by other means, then an insurgency is plitics by other means.
If war is the continuation of politics by other means, then an insurgency is politics by other means.
Dawn breaks over Bhaktapur like the opening of an act set in some medieval conch-shaped stage. This ancient town is a treat to behold, and a classic lesson in heritage conservation.
Deshanter, 22 October
Gorkha Brewery Pvt Ltd has begun labelling two of its beers with information on the brew, a move the company says will help customers buy what…
