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2025
Twenty-five years later, where are we? Exactly where we said we would be: with the impact of climate breakdown increasingly visible, good…
2024
A cricket fever gripped the nation that proved that Nepal could both play in and organise tournaments at a global level. In 2024 Nepal took part…
2023
2023 was the year of scandals. A new scam was exposed by investigative journalists seemingly almost every week. In March, investigative reporter…
2022
The 2022 election year began with the Deuba-led coalition government ratifying the much-delayed $500 million MCC grant for transmission lines to…
2021
On midnight 22 May 2021, then-president Bidya Devi Bhandari dissolved Parliament at the behest of UML Chair K P Sharma Oli after he failed to be…
2020
The world before and after Covid-19 are two different realities. The pandemic was a Hollywood dystopian nightmare and changed how people live…
2019
Geopolitics took a front seat in 2019. Leaders of both of Nepal’s neighbours paid high level visit in the same year. S Jaishankar, the minister…
2018
The year 2018 marked a disastrous year for air safety with the US-Bangla crash at Kathmandu airport on 12 March. The tragedy pinpointed concerns…
2017
The first local-level election after the promulgation of the 2015 Constitution was held under a Sher Bahadur Deuba-led government in three…
2016
In January, the blockade was lifted much to the relief of Nepalis. Pushpa Kamal Dahal, prime minister for the second time, travelled to India to…
2015
Of all the 25 years Nepali Times has been in print, 2015 is the year that stands out as being most eventful. It started off with the paper’s…
2014
On 18 April, a mammoth avalanche that fell off the West Shoulder of Mt Everest claimed the lives of 16 Nepali guides fixing ropes on the Khumbu…
2013
By 2013, the optimism after the ceasefire seven years earlier had more or less disappeared. It was clear that the trust the Nepali people had…
2012
2012 was declared ‘Invest in Nepal Year’ and it followed Tourism Year in 2011 which increased visitor numbers by 20%. Tourism was the largest…
2011
Chief Maoist ideologue Baburam Bhattarai was elected Prime Minister on 29 August 2011 as the leader of the Maoist party which got the Madhesi…
2010
Technology was taking a big leap forward. Schools had started to equip themselves with computer labs with LED screens, and coding was taught to…
2009
After the Maoists came to power, reintegration of the Maoist combatants and moving ahead with the peace process became a priority. But most of…
2008
Two years after the conflict ended, the country prepared for the first election to the Constituent Assembly which under the peace agreement was…
2007
After a jam packed 2006, Nepal’s nascent democracy cautiously inched forward under an interim constitution and eight parties going into…
2006
After 10 years of agonising war, and three weeks of spreading street protests, by the stroke of the midnight hour on 24 April 2006, king…
2005
1 February, 2005. 10AM. King Gyanendra went on Nepal Television with a Royal Proclamation saying he was taking over. He criticised the political…
2004
The Maoist war was at its peak, the rebels were attacking one district headquarters after another, people were being disappeared, Nepalis were…
2003
The beginning of 2003 was marked by a ceasefire agreement between the government and the Maoists on 29 January. But it was short-lived and…
2002
On midnight 16 February 2002, on the sixth anniversary of the beginning of the insurgency, the Maoists launched the biggest attack till then…