Nepalis are not dying on the country’s highways, they are being killed
City life and the many benefits it represents, including better healthcare, reliable transport and quality education, are the main pull factors…
Chinese electric two-wheeler company Yadea's electric mountain bicycle, the Yadea SS800.Even as importers try to meet increased demand for…
More people die on Nepal's highways every year than in all natural disasters combined
In this impressively detailed and visually arresting study, Mohan Pant makes a convincing scholarly case for why social and cultural traditions…
Local activists goad local governments to deliver services
At next week’s Power Summit, let us put finally the horse before the cart
Photos: BIKRAM RAIIf this is the state of the streets in the capital, imagine what it is like in the rest of the country.Exactly a year ago this…
Photo: BIKRAM RAIIn the past three years, federal and provincial governments spent a massive Rs216.5 million on vehicles. If we add the budget…
Photos: ACHYUT RAJ BHANDARI- Achyut Raj BhandariWomen may be treated unfairly by society in one of Nepal’s most conservative districts, but it…
With poaching under control, the big new threat to Nepal’s nature is from infrastructure
Photo: CAROL INSKIPPThe ruined 250-year-old Gorkhali fortress of Upardang Gadi is located on the northern rim of Chitwan Valley. But that is not…
Kunda DixitA drain in the middle of the road outside the gates of a school in Kirtipur had its concrete slabs removed for maintenance six months…
A ghost bicycle is tied to a tree near where Shyam Sundar Shrestha died on 27 October. The open drain is now covered. On the night before the…
Open drain where Shyam Sundar Shrestha fell and drowned. Shrestha's bicycle, sneakers and bag being retrieved by the police the next morning.…
Sonia AwaleAs winter sets in and air quality deteriorates, most of Kathmandu Valley’s 18 mayors gathered on Thursday in Patan to listen to…
A villager in Maspur, Humla weaves a doko basket from strips of bamboo.“Jai grihasthi” is a greeting heard often in the Far West and Karnali…
