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Nijgad’s green runway
The path is open to declare a national park in the native forest where the airport would have been
What to do with Pokhara’s ‘extra’ airport?
The terminal building of Pokhara’s new airport with its sweeping steel roof nears completion amidst a dramatic backdrop of the Annapurnas.Forty…
"Pokhara will be a game changer"
https://youtu.be/9nLOSr_RZIkAt a time when most airlines around the world are folding, and Nepal’s own carriers struggle to stay airborne,…
Tourist visas now open for Nepal
Photo: KUNDA DIXITAs Nepal prepares to finally resume flights between Kathmandu and New Delhi after 11 months and restrictions on foreigners…
Tourist visas now open for Nepal
Photo: KUNDA DIXITAs Nepal prepares to finally resume flights between Kathmandu and New Delhi after 11 months and restrictions on foreigners…
Zurich Airport International opts out of Nepal project
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRIThe Nepal government’s plan to force through a mammoth airport project, despite a global recession and concerns…
Didn’t Visit Nepal Year 2020
Sunrise near Phaplu in Solu Khumbu after snowfall in January just before Nepal was closed off for tourists. Photo: MANISH PAUDELIt was Nepal’s…
Time capsule of Kathmandu
Aerial view of BaudhaSwiss geologist Toni Hagen first came to Nepal in 1950, crisscrossed the mountains and plains on foot to find out the kind…
Long road back to Shangrila
Look east : Sunrise near Phaplu in Solu Khumbu after recent snowfall. Photo : MANISH PAUDELEver since Time magazine printed a story in 1992…
Chinese farmer strikes roots in Nepal
Photos : JOSIE WANGStanding in his field on the outskirts of Pokhara and below the dazzling snows of the Annapurna mountains, Xiang Shaohua…
THE NEPAL BRAND
On new year’s day, President Bidya Devi Bhandari inaugurated Visit Nepal Year 2020, aimed at attracting 2 million tourists this year, at a…
15 points for and against Nijgad Airport
ForKathmandu airport is congested and saturated. It is now surrounded by the city and is not safe. Nepal urgently needs an alternative…
New, improved TIA
Now that G Adventures has listed Nepal as Number 1 of the Top 12 Destinations Worldwide for 2020, we can all sit back, relax and give every…
US-bound Nepalis trafficked to Malawi
Four Nepalis who had been held hostage in the Southeast African nation of Malawi have been rescued by the Nepal Police Human Trafficking Bureau.…
Kathmandu flight disruptions on weekend
Passengers have been warned to face disruptions in international and domestic flights at Kathmandu on Saturday and Sunday due to the movement of…
REDUCING LABOUR PAIN
DIWAKAR CHHETRIThe Nepal Communist Party government, with Prime Minister KP Oli at the helm, is nearing two years in office. It has been taken…
High cost lays aviation low in Nepal
Kathmandu has the highest fuel and handling costs of any airport in the world, and the poorest facilities
Nepal Airlines has new planes, but no new plans
Pic: NAYA KHOJThe woes that plague state-owned Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) are not new: mismanagement, political interference, incompetence…
The business of politics undermines Nepal’s democracy
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAIWhen Prime Minister KP Oli and NCP co-chair Prachanda had a luncheon meeting at the home of business tycoon Durga…
The right path
Photo: KUNDA DIXITIt is easy to be disappointed by Lumbini. Scruffy, dusty and unbearably hot this time of year, it looks from the outside like…
U Thant, Kenzō Tange and the Buddha's birthplace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBmGxGmpg8E&feature=youtu.beWhen the Burmese Buddhist Secretary-General of the United Nations, U Thant, visited…
Chaos at airport due to runway repair
PIC: BIKRAM RAIAn investigation committee has been formed after a scheduled Dubai-bound Airbus 330 of Nepal Airlines was canceled on the night…
Kathmandu runway repair
Photo: EXPLORE HIMALAYAKathmandu airport will be closed for 10 hours a day just at the start of the peak trekking and mountaineering season, and…
Economy & ecology of Nijgad airport
The government’s determination to clear-fell a large swathe of eastern Nepal’s last remaining hardwood forest for the proposed Nijgad Airport…