Former British Gurkha Captain Bhim Saru Magar of Nepali origin has been elected as the Mayor of Nuneaton Bedworth Borough in the United Kingdom. The ruling Labor ...

KATHMANDU, May 4: Press freedom in Nepal has witnessed a troubling downturn over the past year, with the killing of two ...

KATHMANDU, Jan 30: Venus and Serena Williams of the United States won their eighth doubles Grand Slam title with victory at the Australian Open Friday, agencies reported. The sisters deafeated Daniela ...

If any normal Nepali would ever dream of having to visit a government office, they'd most likely wake up with a familiar kind of tiredness. It isn't uncommon for someone to enter a government office ...

KATHMANDU, Nov 8: Bangladesh is mulling over to set up a joint venture hydropower plant with Nepal and Bhutan at Himalayan basin. Dhaka-based The Financial Express newspaper reported on Friday quoting ...

Food security is a chronic problem in the mountains of Nepal. And yet it is only during disasters, when the problem assumes truly gigantic proportions, that it grabs the headlines. After a series of ...

KATHMANDU, Sept 18: Nissan´s all-new Sunny has hit the Nepali roads. Dugar Brothers and Sons introduced the sedan in the Nepali market on Tuesday. The 1498 cc car, which is manufactured in India, is ...

Before Mysore Narasimhachar Srinivas (1916-1999), it was popularly believed that there was no way of upward mobility in the phenomenally rigid Hindu caste system. Backing his hypothesis with ...

Last year, during the World Bank’s Open Forum organized to address the world’s food crisis, we brainstormed for ideas on how to provide food for almost one billion people who go to bed hungry every ...

KATHMANDU, April 25: Started with an initial investment of just 2 million rupees, ´Thamel.com´ now has an annual turnover of over 20 billion. The life of the co-founder of the company, Bal Krishna ...

PARBAT: A dozen youths from Parbat, who had gone seeking for greener pastures abroad, were killed in several accidents over the last one year. [break] “These youths had gone for employment in foreign ...

In my last article (Linguistic Federalism, July 1), I made a case for linguistic federalism, explained the problems with north-south demarcation (similar to the existing five development regions) and ...