Departure follows increasing scrutiny over his investments linked to controversial business figures
New ministers include technocrats who have performed well in specific professions
Sushila Karki is Nepal’s first female PM, but has her work cut out to give the country a new beginning
Nepal clamped its first Covid lockdown on 24 March 2020, and five years later many have forgotten what it was like
From time to time, as our nation state marches ahead to the drumbeat of history, we have to remind ourselves of the tremendous achievements of…
Former DoFe officials says reform is not easy in a sector where malpractice is rife
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAJumla’s marsi red rice earned some notoriety in 2018 after a photograph went viral on social media of Prime Minister K P…
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASINepal’s Supreme Court on 23 February reinstated the House of Representatives and ordered Parliament to convene within 13…
A proposal by Nepal’s Immigration Department requiring consent from a guardian and local government for women under the age of 40 travelling to…
Nepal’s recent history has been marked by milestones popularly remembered as People’s Movements. The first one in 1980 got us a referendum on…
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIPrime Minister K P Oli landed himself in fresh controversy after he punctuated his speech at the National Assembly…
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRI Prime Minister K P Oli was half way through his one hour delivery to the Upper House on Sunday, defending his move…
Illustration: SUBHAS RAI / NEPALI TIMES #22, 22-28 DECEMBER 2000Nepal has been on a knife-edge in 2020 because of the pandemic, but the…
Charikot Hospital in 2015 after it was upgraded from a primary health care centre by Nyaya Health Nepal. Photo: Nyaya Health Nepal. In one of…
For a government with a hefty majority that loftily promised voters prosperity and stability, the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has been able to…
"How thirsty he must be. I hope his fast will end soon," said Dr Govinda KC's mother on a video that was shared online. Her sentiment is shared…
The same Cabinet meeting on 1 October that decided to nominate Yubaraj Khatiwada as Nepal’s new ambassador to the United States also partially…
Signs for seven provinces at Kathmandu airport. All photos: BIKRAM RAIThe jumbled up signs for seven provinces at Kathmandu airport is symbolic…
When she heard in March that she was accepted for a master’s degree in urban management in The Netherlands, Surena Shrestha was ecstatic. Then…
Prime Minister K P Oli made some grandiose declarations to bring ocean-going vessels to Nepal's borders. Even less ambitious goals have not been…
About 2,000 Nepalis are among foreign workers quarantined in a camp between streets 1-32 of the Industrial Area near Doha that has been closed…
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAILegend has it that the real reason Nepal stayed an independent nation state while all around us were colonised was…
Mother's group in Accham feed home-cooked meal to their children. Photo: MARTY LOGANFor the first two decades after 1990, Nepal took great…
