Indian Prime Minister Narandra Modi reveicing Nepali PM Sher Bahadur Deuba during his Delhi visit in 2017. Photo: MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS,…
All photos: ALISHA SIJAPATIEven as the pandemic spread across the Subcontinent last year, and one country after another went into lockdown, I…
Winter inversion, vehicular emission, wildfires, and cross-border industrial pollution have combined to give Kathmandu Valley the worst air…
Illustration: SUBHAS RAIWhen Kathmandu Valley was still known as Swoniga (three cities), back in the medieval Lichhavi-Malla era, the Ganga…
FISHING OUT: Armymen try to pull out the bus that fell into the Madi River in Tanahu in 2013. Photo: PAWAN PAUDELThe Covid-19 crisis has…
Nepal’s Communist Party leaders must take note of two events that unfolded in India this week: the roaring welcome to US President Donald Trump…
India Airlines Airbus300 that was hijacked on 24 December 1999 at Afghanistan's Kandahar airport.The world was waiting with bated breath for all…
Photos: SANDEEP RANA BJP HEADQUARTERPrime Minister Modi is returning to power in India with more confidence will mean that his government will…
RENEWABLE TRANSPORT: Symbolic gestures like President Bidya Devi Bhandari using an electric limousine, and more practical tax breaks for EVs…
Tornado in Bara. Photo: RSSThis is the season for windstorms, and even though the whirlwind that hit the central Tarai on 31 March killing 28…
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIArticle 5 of the 1950 Indo-Nepal Treaty implicitly forbids arms imports directly from third countries. Opposition…
NEW DELHI – A diplomat friend returning home after less than three years’ service in India, was asked at his exit medical examination how many…
The book Another South Asia! with an assertive exclamation mark in its title requires one to pause, and step back to recall what is South Asia,…
The first step in reducing air pollution is to let the public and governments know how bad it is…