Nepal is getting ready for another election. After dissolution of the constituent assembly a year ago, it will be the country’s second attempt in five years at electing representatives who would hopefully draft the new constitution. 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

As hundreds of mountaineers from across the globe, their guides and porters from Nepal scaled Everest last week during the annual spring frenzy, several friends in India wondered if there’s a free-for-all picnic underway atop the world’s highest mountain. 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

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

Tourism entrepreneurs in Nepal are a bit worried these days. The first two months of 2013 haven’t brought good news for them—despite the 6% increase in foreign tourist arrivals in February. Read more

The main goal of political parties is to attain the reins of government and stay in power as long as possible. To that end political parties in Nepal are no different in hankering for power and trying to retain it. Read more

Jumping off a cliff 1600 metres above sea level can be fun. If you are doing that from Sarangkot in Nepal, just above the tourist town of Pokhara, located some 200 km west of the country’s capital. Read more