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Lower than usual turnout in Nepal polls
Photo: RSSA lower than usual turnout in Sunday’s elections in Nepal signals voter apathy, and could favour non-establishment parties.An Election…
Dejected voters reject polls
Chinimaya lama with her two children. All photos: ANITA BHETWALChinimaya Lama, 30, cannot walk up the slope to fetch water for her livestock.…
Voters cynical about electoral alliances
As Nepal enters the last lap in federal and provincial races, candidates and their cadres seem more excited than voters. Across the Inner Tarai…
Many Nepalis say no, not again
In July, a new Facebook page uploaded a poster of six of Nepal’s top political leaders — Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and former Prime…
A daughter also rises
ALL PHOTOS: SUMAN NEPALIManushi Yami Bhattarai, daughter of Maoist leaders Baburam Bhattarai and Hisila Yami, followed her family’s footsteps…
Nepalis do not have to breathe dirty air
Let us make our voices heard in the November elections for cleaner politics and cleaner air
Paradigm shift in Nepali media
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASI The Himal Media Mela 2022 continued on Saturday following the keynote address of Ravish Kumar, group editor of NDTV…
Media as the custodian of people
Keynote speaker Ravish Kumar, senior editor of NDTV India. All photos: AMIT MACHAMASIRavish Kumar, group editor of NDTV India, opened the Himal…
Coalition collision
A loudspeaker cut through the early morning silence in Chandragiri Municipality on Wednesday as a pickup bounced along an alley, blaring…
Hiding their head in the sand
Illegal sand mining on Chure rivers displaces farmers, decimates a fragile landscape
New election symbols
Besides defending its title as the most corrupted country in South Asia, Nepal has belatedly also been recognised in the Guinness Book as having…
All eyes on 2023
If it was clear that the UML convention last month was actually the party’s first election rally, it is even more evident during this week’s…
A crucible of fragile coalitions
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHETTRINepalis are wondering who won and who lost after the Supreme Court on 7 March effectively ruled that the Nepal…
Oli’s tit-for-tat show of force
Prime Minister KP Oli addresses his supporters in Darbar Marg.The tit-for-tat show of force between rival factions of the ruling Nepal Communist…
Karma’s karma
Photo: BIKRAM RAIAs hundreds of thousands of Nepali youngsters leave the country in search of greener pastures, a trickle have started to return…
Jimmy Carter’s Nepal vest auctioned for $10,000
A blue election observer flak jacket worn by former US President Jimmy Carter in Nepal’s 2013 Constituent Assembly poll has fetched $10,000 at a…
“It is now or never to devolve power to local governments”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcOLeRbQqWwSwiss Ambassador Elisabeth von Capeller Oswald is on her second diplomatic stint in Nepal after also…
Model mayors
When Nepali Times decided last month to profile a dozen model mayors, we had no idea how difficult the job was going to be. There were not that…