Empowering women to enter politics and preparing candidates for elections two years away
Mainstream parties feel threatened by the handover of power from the past to the future
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIBalendra Shah, popularly known as ‘Balen’, is a rapper and structural engineer who was elected Mayor of Kathmandu…
Senior citizens cast their ballot in Kathmandu's Hanuman Dhoka on Friday morning. Photos: RSS and AMIT MACHAMASINepalis all around the country…
A political party mobiliser in Kathmandu's Koteswor intersection collecting names of voters in Triyuja Municipality in Udaypur. All photos:…
In an informal survey, Nepalis in the United States were asked about elections back home this year to three levels of government.Most replied…
The use of the social web has found a dominant role in campaigning for local elections, especially as the countdown to the 13 May local…
Photo: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVESSome members of the ruling coalition are still trying to postpone local elections slated for 13 May citing the…
Illustration: RABINDRA“We are always proud about the fact that Nepal has a female President and Speaker, but do you think Bidya Devi Bhandari,…
Photo: BIKRAM RAI/NEPALI TIMESNepal is getting into full campaign mode for local elections only a little more than a month away, and political…
Deputy chair of Chaurpati Rural Municipality in Achham district Maya Kunwar has been working to reduce domestic violence, alcoholism and to…
Illustration: SWORUP NHASIJUIn the five years since transitioning into the federal system, Nepal’s local governments have garnered much more…
Takam village (above) in Dhaulagiri Municipality is a model for how federalism should function. Photos: JOY STEPHENSBal Bir Biswakarma from the…
When the only ambulance in Diprung Chuichumma could not attend to all the emergencies, Chair Bhupendra Rai himself drove the infected to health…
Photo: BIKRAM RAI/NEPALI TIMESWhen the second wave hit Nepal in May 2021, city hospitals ran out of ICU beds and oxygen, and politicians in…
After hemming and hawing about holding local elections, top leaders of the five-party alliance that met on Tuesday finally made some headway.…
The Election Commission has set local elections for May, with federal elections following early next year. Given the heated debate about…
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIAlternative politics (वैकल्पिक राजनीति) in Nepal so far has just been limited to creating new political parties.…
Photo : BIKRAM RAINepal is recognised as the only low-income country to have made rapid progress cutting poverty and boosting public health and…
Local activists goad local governments to deliver services
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcOLeRbQqWwSwiss Ambassador Elisabeth von Capeller Oswald is on her second diplomatic stint in Nepal after also…
Of all the parts of Kathmandu Valley worst hit in the April 2015 earthquake was the historic town of Sankhu. But this is also where elected…
The first step in reducing air pollution is to let the public and governments know how bad it is…
