ROYAL MESS: Office buildings vandalised and set on fire at Tinkune, the building on the left is the one in which Avenues TV journalist Suresh Rajak was killed after rioters set fire to it. Photo: ...

“I was brave enough to take a motorcycle taxi around Kathmandu yesterday, I probably died five times during that journey,” says Alok Jain, an international expert on public transport operations and ...

Kathmandu ground to a halt on Friday as pro- and anti-monarchy protests rocked separate parts of the capital. While the Socialist Front led by the Maoist Centre Party held a large rally in the centre ...

The former Bogota mayor Enrique Peñalosa who implemented a successful bus rapid transit system for his city once said: “Democracy can be measured by the width of a country’s sidewalks.” To this, we ...

Transport is one of the biggest and fastest-growing sources of carbon emissions in Nepal where private cars and motorcycles make up 87% of the registered vehicles and 37% of the total emissions.

A high-level meeting between the energy secretaries of Nepal and India last month agreed to build six high-voltage cross-border transmission lines to facilitate the export of up to 18,000MW of ...

Nearly two months after king Gyanendra's 1 February 2005 coup, Nepal began to feel its economic impact: domestic production slowed down, budget for development programs was diverted to the security ...

Nepali films have in the past often portrayed women in limited, one-dimensional roles: selfless mothers, obedient wives, or victims of abuse. Nepal’s very first feature film, Ama was a pioneering ...

The state of democracy can be measured by the quality of a country's bus system The divine union of Shiva and Parvati shows society functions best when men and women respect each other as equals ...

After Nepal registered 1,016 new cases of Covid-19, its biggest daily rise so far, the authorities have decided to re-impose lockdown for a week ...

Two new books urge Nepal to leverage relations with China and India in its own national interest New book by a journalist chronicles the fearful times of the 1996-2006 conflict in western Nepal ...