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Deuba to restore India ties in Delhi visit

Sher Bahadur Deuba became Nepal’s prime minister for the first time when he was just 49. A few months later, on 4...

Kunda Dixit

Mom in Delhi, Dad in Kathmandu

Even as the pandemic spread across the Subcontinent last year, and one country after another went into lockdown, I lost my grandmother....

Kathmandu air pollution hits record high

Winter inversion, vehicular emission, wildfires, and cross-border industrial pollution have combined to give Kathmandu Valley the worst air quality among cities in...

New Delhi’s new dealings in Nepal

When Kathmandu Valley was still known as Swoniga (three cities), back in the medieval Lichhavi-Malla era, the Ganga plains did not send diplomats or...

How Covid-19 saves lives in Nepal

The Covid-19 crisis has dominated news bulletins in Nepal for the last six months, and in the past week the headlines are...

The India, US, Nepal, China quadrangle

Nepal’s Communist Party leaders must take note of two events that unfolded in India this week: the roaring welcome to US President Donald...

Remembering IC814

The world was waiting with bated breath for all kinds of catastrophes to befall humanity as the decade of the 90s, the...

Tsu-namo 2.0 and Nepal

Prime Minister Modi is returning to power in India with more confidence will mean that his government will be more assertive towards smaller countries...

Nepal’s electric transport future is here

Residents of Kathmandu by now know that they breathe some of the dirtiest air in the world. But unlike elsewhere, that awareness...

Sonia Awale

Life in the time of tornadoes

This is the season for windstorms, and even though the whirlwind that hit the central Tarai on 31 March killing 28 people...