Why the proposed 10 percent electricity price hike will not solve the problem

Jorg Frieden-Nepal representative of Swiss Development Cooperation (SDC).

Growing up in a francophone school in Nepal is possible

Across Nepal, there is an information vacuum as radio stations are gagged

Some are paralysed by the cell phone ban, others don’t miss it at all

Differential pricing for off-peak hours and seasons is the only way to go for now

Nepal’s oldest international school goes golden

Possible militarisation of international aid needs to be taken seriously

Maps that let us quickly find out which districts have made progress since 1971, and which haven’t

Officials approved $30 million in extra payments to contractors of the Kali Gandaki project without the board’s approval.

Nepal can now generate cheap electricity with locally-built and locally-financed hydropower schemes like this one on the Chilime.

For more than 50 years, Nepali students have benefited from the world’s most successful educational exchange.

The BBC’s Nepali Service is the main source of news for the Nepalis in Nepal and abroad.

How to combine old and new, and blend it with the medieval urbanscape of Bhaktapur.

Nepal is not divided by mountains but by its rivers. You can walk across mountains, but rivers can only be crossed on a bridge. Over the decades, bridge-building has been honed into a fine art, and large parts
of Nepal are no longer remote.

Pulchowk’s Institute of Engineering may not look it, but it has achieved enough to crow about.

Kathmandu University may be the answer to Nepal’s educational needs, and a whole host of other problems as well.

A house is not just a home, a business complex is not just an office: both speak volumes about the level of respect for their surroundings and the cultural awareness of a city and its people.