This week, the Supreme Court ruled on the most eagerly awaited case concerning the legality of the suspended Chief of the Commission for the Investigation of the Abuse of Authority (CIAA) Lokman Singh ...

Standing in front of rows of neatly aligned glass jars, Gyatso Bista (pictured, right) runs his hands over the shelf and inspects each of the labels posted on it. Coming from five generations of ...

Almost everyone knows that Nepal is the home of the Kumari, but very few have heard that in Kathmandu Valley, two boys also are Living Gods. Tucked away in a narrow alley in the Pako and Om Bahal ...

Min Bahadur Bham’s first feature film Kalo Pothi (Black Hen) is an example of the new wave of Nepali cinema, the kind that chooses to portray stories with truth and heart, over melodrama and action.

The Chunbang conference in 2005 was a watershed moment in the Maoist conflict. The war had been going on for nine years, and the revolution was losing momentum. Prachanda brought forward a proposal to ...

Anita, 44, started withdrawing from the social scene. She started gaining weight. She said she had misplaced the joy in her life. She was depressed, but people thought she would get over it. She did ...

Jigme Dorje Palbar Bista, the King of Lo, or Upper Mustang, died in Kathmandu on 16 December. He was 86, and had ruled his kingdom for more than half a century with equanimity. We shared an affinity ...

The call from Lady June Hillary came early one opaque Kathmandu morning. “Lisa, sorry to wake you but I promised to let you know — Ed just left us. Please come.” It was 11 January 2008, and life ...

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 ...

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, ...

Ketaki Chester was a cousin of King Birendra, and was present with her sister at the Naryanhiti Palace on 1 June 2001 when Crown Prince Dipendra killed nine members of his family, including himself.

When one of Asia’s richest men whose family fortune came from electric power flew into Kathmandu in his own Gulfstream 3 executive jet last week, some thought he was here to invest in hydropower. Sir ...