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Credit: The walkley foundationAcross the world and the region, democracy is in retreat. The three pillars of a democratic state — an independent…
R amesh Kumar Neupane of Himal Khabarpatrika, a sister publication of Nepali Times has been awarded by the Society of Economic Journalists Nepal…
Now that Nepal has been ranked 76th out of 116 countries in the UN’s World Hunger Index, and we seem to be more fed-up than India and Pakistan…
While at home with nothing to do, many of you have been worrying obsessively about the state of the country. Don’t. We are in the very capable…
Once in a while, amidst all this gloom and doom, we detect a silver lining, a light at the end of the tunnel, a ray of moonshine. I am, of…
All this knee-jerk criticism of Primetime Minister K P Oli for offering prayers at Pashupati misses the whole point about his interpretation of…
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Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThe Year of Covid hit economies hard, and none more so than the media business which depends mainly on advertising. With…
Nepali Times issue #1The #1 print edition of Nepali Times of 19-25 July 2000 shows that even though much has changed in Nepal in the past two…
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Pragati Rai. All Photos: MONIKA DEUPALAAs a child, Pragati Rai was called fattyauri, someone who would not stop talking. “I did not like that…
Everything you want to know about COVID-19 and the threat it poses to Nepal
The biggest lesson of COVID-19 is that individuals and nations cannot protect only themselves, we are all in this together
Photo: BIKRAM RAIWith business coming to a grinding halt globally due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Nepal’s migration and tourism-based economy is…
Photo: EU IN NEPALT he European Union Ambassador to Nepal Veronica Cody spoke to Nepali Times on International Women’s Day. Excerpts:Nepali…
In 999 issues the Nepali Times has reviewed hundreds of books, from political thrillers on the Maoist conflict to novels and travelogues.…
Since Nepali Times was established almost 20 years ago, we have covered everything from the royal massacre to the impact of the climate crisis…
When the Nepali Times morphed into a weekly newspaper from an e-platform in 2000, it was met at first with initial skepticism as the few English…
I'm so old that I remember a time — back in the hoary 1990s — when you couldn’t expect flair, or at times even fluency, from Nepal’s…
Twenty years ago, in December 2000, a group of four anthropologists and historians at the University of Cambridge embarked on a project to…
It was easy for me to get in the door of the Nepali Times after I first moved to Nepal in 2005: Editor Kunda Dixit and I shared ties with the…