Twenty-five years later, where are we? Exactly where we said we would be: with the impact of climate breakdown increasingly visible, good…
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A cricket fever gripped the nation that proved that Nepal could both play in and organise tournaments at a global level. In 2024 Nepal took part…
2023 was the year of scandals. A new scam was exposed by investigative journalists seemingly almost every week. In March, investigative reporter…
The 2022 election year began with the Deuba-led coalition government ratifying the much-delayed $500 million MCC grant for transmission lines to…
On midnight 22 May 2021, then-president Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolved Parliament at the behest of UML Chair K P Sharma Oli after he failed to be…
The world before and after Covid-19 are two different realities. The pandemic was a Hollywood dystopian nightmare and changed how people live…
Geopolitics took a front seat in 2019. Leaders of both of Nepal’s neighbours paid high level visit in the same year. S Jaishankar, the minister…
The year 2018 marked a disastrous year for air safety with the US-Bangla crash at Kathmandu airport on 12 March. The tragedy pinpointed concerns…
The first local-level election after the promulgation of the 2015 Constitution was held under a Sher Bahadur Deuba-led government in three…
In January, the blockade was lifted much to the relief of Nepalis. Pushpa Kamal Dahal, prime minister for the second time, travelled to India to…
Of all the 25 years Nepali Times has been in print, 2015 is the year that stands out as being most eventful. It started off with the paper’s…
On 18 April, a mammoth avalanche that fell off the West Shoulder of Mt Everest claimed the lives of 16 Nepali guides fixing ropes on the Khumbu…
By 2013, the optimism after the ceasefire seven years earlier had more or less disappeared. It was clear that the trust the Nepali people had…
2012 was declared ‘Invest in Nepal Year’ and it followed Tourism Year in 2011 which increased visitor numbers by 20%. Tourism was the largest…
Chief Maoist ideologue Baburam Bhattarai was elected Prime Minister on 29 August 2011 as the leader of the Maoist party which got the Madhesi…
Technology was taking a big leap forward. Schools had started to equip themselves with computer labs with LED screens, and coding was taught to…
After the Maoists came to power, reintegration of the Maoist combatants and moving ahead with the peace process became a priority. But most of…
Two years after the conflict ended, the country prepared for the first election to the Constituent Assembly which under the peace agreement was…
After a jam packed 2006, Nepal’s nascent democracy cautiously inched forward under an interim constitution and eight parties going into…
After 10 years of agonising war, and three weeks of spreading street protests, by the stroke of the midnight hour on 24 April 2006, king…
1 February, 2005. 10AM. King Gyanendra went on Nepal Television with a Royal Proclamation saying he was taking over. He criticised the political…
The Maoist war was at its peak, the rebels were attacking one district headquarters after another, people were being disappeared, Nepalis were…
The beginning of 2003 was marked by a ceasefire agreement between the government and the Maoists on 29 January. But it was short-lived and…
On midnight 16 February 2002, on the sixth anniversary of the beginning of the insurgency, the Maoists launched the biggest attack till then…
