A government official said last week that a "review" of the power purchase agreements (PPAs) between independent power producers (IPPs) and the Nepal Electricity Authority was underway, following ...

Kathmandu Valley is where mythology and geology intertwine. The former holds that the Tibetan saint, Manjushree, flew down to Kathmandu. Upon seeing the huge lake, he cut the Chobhar ridge in half ...

Prithvi Narayan Shah built the imposing fortress palace in Nuwakot in 1762 as he swept eastwards towards Kathmandu Valley as part of the conquests that led to the formation of the nation state of ...

Buddhism spread from Nepal to the Korean peninsula two millennia ago, but in the past 60 years Korea has been exporting two of its dominant ideologies to Nepal. Although it has been in Nepal since ...

In May, when the last cabinet meeting of the Maoist government awarded a $2.5 billion contract for the 1,200MW Budi Gandaki hydroelectric project to a Chinese company without competitive bidding, it ...

A few days after Christmas of 1952, Paul W. Rose, the highest-ranking American based in Nepal, left Kathmandu with several Nepali, American, and European colleagues for a reconnaissance trip to ...

Exactly a hundred years ago in May 1915 the allied forces, stiffened by reinforcements from the Indian 29th Brigade, which included three Nepali Gurkha battalions, clustered on the beaches of ...

No one is better placed to pen the history of the rise and fall of the Ranas than Sagar S.J.B. Rana. He is a family insider and political outsider, an Oxford-educated great grandson of Prime Minister ...

Over the past 30 years I have worked with Nepalis in the field of gender and education. Although a lot of progress has been made, much more needs to be done. The gender movement has grown with events ...

The 19th century conflict between the Kathmandu Darbar and the British East India Company in Calcutta is often attributed to a clash over territory between two expansionist powers in the subcontinent.

In 1989, the Rajiv Gandhi-led government imposed an economic blockade against Nepal because of a dispute over transit treaties and its uneasiness over Nepal’s growing closeness with China. As the ...

The debate about ‘Foreign Aid’ continues as we try to analyse if overseas assistance has indeed helped Nepal, or if it has made the country weaker. A development cooperation report published by the ...