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 ...

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 ...

Geologist may have various reasons to believe Kathmandu Valley was once a lake, but they would not be able to match the story of Manjushri. In the high wall of the Kathmandu Valley, at a place called ...

When historians look back at the beginning of the end of Nepal’s monarchy, they probably will not dwell long on a newly-elected Constituent Assembly declaring Nepal a republic in 2008, but on the ...

Rajeev Bikram Shah and Udaya Rana have a lot in common. Both come from a family of influence, spent much of their youth studying abroad, and ventured into politics despite having promising careers ...

The 12-point agreement between the Maoists and the seven-party alliance as listed in statement by Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Tuesday. 1. Today, the main desire of most Nepalis is to have democracy, peace, ...

The People of India, printed in 1868, was a photographic album prepared at the insistence of the Viceroy Lord Canning. Glass plate photography had been invented barely a decade earlier, but by 1860 ...

"I m afraid I shall have to cut you in half, Sir Edmund," said the queen, advancing towards the cake with a scimitar-like knife. There was the time when Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were ...

In 1970, when Crown Prince Birendra got married, as a wedding present the German government renovated the Pujari Math (pic, below) in Bhaktapur. One of the architects involved was Niels Gutschow (box) ...

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.

Muktinath Adhikari, headmaster and Grade 10 teacher at Padmini Sanskrit Higher Secondary School in Lamjung, was teaching a Science class when the Maoists came and took him away in January 2002. That ...

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 ...