One year is a long time in politics. In that duration sworn enemies can turn friends and foes can become bedfellows. Read more

Thousands of trees along Kathmandu’s streets have fallen prey to the rapid road expansion drive underway in Nepal’s capital for over a year now. Read more

Nepal’s non-political government—the interim election council headed by the country’s chief justice—hasn’t been able to announce dates for the next general elections more than two months after assuming charge. Read more

A group of diplomats based in Kathmandu and some journalists from international organisations as well as leading Nepali media houses had an unforgettable experience last week.

What started out as a weekend familiarisation trip expected to be filled with adventure and fun turned out to be three days of unanticipated irritations for them with almost everyone wishing a quick end. Read more

Eight weeks have passed since an interim election council headed by the country’s chief justice took reins of government in Nepal. But there’s no announcement of dates of that election which would give the country another shot at framing a new constitution. Read more

Before embarking on his India visit last week, Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda, chairman of the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist), the largest outfit in Nepal’s dissolved Constituent Assembly, reiterated one statement over and over again. Read more

In a month from now it will be 60 years since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the highest point in the world—the summit of Mount Everest located at 8,848 metres above sea level. Read more

Thirty eight years have elapsed since Sikkim ceased to be a monarchy and became a state of the Indian union. But repercussions of the historic development are still felt in neighbouring Nepal. Read more

Last October Nepal played host to South Asia’s first sports festival meant exclusively for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgendered (LGBT) – a three day event where hundreds of athletes from Nepal and over a dozen other countries took part. Read more

The arrest of Syed Liyaqat Shah, an alleged Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militant, has started a volley of claims and counter-claims in India on whether he was planning a terror attack in Delhi or was on his way to Jammu and Kashmir as part of a rehabilitation plan. Read more