The country’s strategic stockpile of petroleum lasts less than 2 weeks, it must legislate against future energy shocks
Over-reliance on hydroelectricity at the cost of solar power is high-risk and high-cost
Photo: NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVEPrime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba was forced to sack Janardan Sharma this week, but only after his finance minister…
Illustration: SUBHAS RAIThe Ukraine War has sent the price of fuel soaring, forcing Nepalis to play Russian roulette at the petrol pumps.…
Vehicles are one of the biggest emitters of PM2.5 and other pollutants in Kathmandu. Photos: AMIT MACHAMASIIt is that time of the year again…
Photo: BIKRAM RAI/ NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVESNepal could lose Rs142 billion a year in wasted surplus energy if the Millennium Challenge Corporation…
Nepal Rastra Bank’s report last month was badly timed — it was a bad idea to sound a warning that Nepal is going belly up just as the country…
Even as Nepal tries to recover from the impact of the pandemic, the country’s economic indicators released this week by the central bank show…
World leaders must also take a walk, and undo the global crisis set off by the invention of the steam engine
A dengue patient being treated from inside a mosquito net at Teku hospital, Kathmandu. Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAAn unusually wet monsoon, increased…
THEN AND NOW: The denuded slope above Namche Bazar in 1983, and the new pine forest.The sound of yak steps on cobble stone streets and their…
