Those remaining in district with highest rate of outmigration have a wishlist from Nepal’s new leaders
If Nepal is to meet its socioeconomic goals in 25 years, it must have improved governance starting yesterday
Nepal needs development, but development needs to be redefined.
It was a natural disaster but the high death toll was a testament to criminal state negligence.
Toni Hagen’s photographs of remote western Nepal from the 1950s show how much it has changed, and how much is the same
Kickback-driven maldevelopment is destroying Nepal as megalomania and kleptomania go hand-in-hand.
Below average precipitation is forecast this monsoon, but we must also be prepared for extreme localised rain.
Looking back at Nepal’s first cargo ropeway built a 100 years ago, and a historical timeline of infrastructure planning in the past century.
Looking at the future of the Chinese infrastructure initiative for Asia and Nepal
Photo:RSSFive years after Nepal signed the US-funded Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact in 2017, Parliament on Sunday finally…
PHOTO MONTAGE/NEPAL ENERGY FORUMLike a mirage, the nearer we get to Parliament’s ratification of a $500 million US-backed infrastructure…
As Nepal’s Parliament finally sits on Wednesday to try to ratify a controversial and long-delayed American infrastructure project, parties…
A much-delayed half-billion dollar US government project to upgrade Nepal’s infrastructure threatens to split Nepal’s governing coalition,…
Illegal sand mining on Chure rivers displaces farmers, decimates a fragile landscape
Photo: SHAURYA CEMENTSNepal’s economic planners are proud of the fact that Nepal is now self-sufficient in cement. Indeed, domestic production…
Photo: BIKRAM RAI/ NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVESNepal could lose Rs142 billion a year in wasted surplus energy if the Millennium Challenge Corporation…
Vehicular and wildlife crossings ongoing construction at East-West electrified railway lines near Bardibas, Nepal. Photos: PRAMOD NEUPANENepal’s…
“Countries knock at our doors all the time for capital, as it is getting harder and harder to obtain development funds. We are holding $500…
Photo: MADHU ACHARYAWorldwide, the impact of Covid-19 underscores the need for more social security buffers built upon the access to four basic…
Turning global warming into opportunity, melting Himalayan glacier is harnessed for electricity
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRINepal's prolonged political deadlock has not just affected the country’s response to Covid-19, it has also delayed…
Excavators at work on Thamdada, 24km south of Lukla, despite the fact that the Khumbu Municipality has run out of money to complete the…
Pradumna B Rana is Visiting Associate Professor at the Centre for Multilateralism Studies of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies…
