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2000
Nepali Times was born at the dawn of the new millennium. It started publishing online in May 2000 before the #1 print edition in the week of…
Nepal’s China-India love-triangle impacts investment
Geopolitical sensitivities of its giant neighbours block much-needed energy projects
Nepal electricity demand soars
Household electricity consumption with the onset of winter, dedicated supply to industries and increase in electric vehicles is fuelling demand…
The cost of no MCC
Photo: BIKRAM RAI/ NEPALI TIMES ARCHIVESNepal could lose Rs142 billion a year in wasted surplus energy if the Millennium Challenge Corporation…
Urgency about Nepal’s economic emergency
Nepal Rastra Bank’s report last month was badly timed — it was a bad idea to sound a warning that Nepal is going belly up just as the country…
Nepal’s 1st hydroelectric plant is a museum piece
Reservoir pond of the Pharping hydropower project 12 km south of Kathmandu Valley. Photo: ASMIT RAJBHANDARIIt was 6:30pm on 22 May 1911, and the…
Kulman Ghising to stay on
The Managing Director of the Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) Kulman Ghising, who is largely credited with ending Nepal’s ruinous daily power…
Oil-rich Gulf turns to renewable energy
Photos: KUNDA DIXITThe increased frequency of climate-induced weather extremes and public opinion pressure are forcing even major fossil fuel…
This is bullshit
Cow dung holds the key to Nepal’s green economy
Designed and made in Nepal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-JBl5KtybQ&t=32sAshim Pandey, 30, used to be fascinated with motorcycles while growing up in Kathmandu. He…
Decentralising (hydro)power
Nepal has the fifth highest hydropower potential in the world. Besides electricity, which can be used for peak energy supply, hydropower…
An energy windfall for Nepal?
Photo: EDCWLast month saw the historic signing of the Nepal-India energy Joint Steering Committee agreement to build the new Butwal-Gorakhpur…
Cars before roads in Nepal
At next week’s Power Summit, let us put finally the horse before the cart
Can Nepal be the powerhouse of Asia?
Yes, by creating an environment for investment in renewable energy to meet domestic and regional demand
The climate threat multiplier
Lhotse glacier, Chukung village to the far left. Photo: ALTON C BYERSMost of the recent talk within the UN Framework Convention on Climate…
Look what’s cooking in Nepal
Using electric rice cookers instead of LPG could save the country a whole lot of money
Finding the nexus between water, food and energy
SILO-ED THINKING: The Melamchi Project is given by authors as an example of non-nexus thinking. By planning it only as a drinking water project,…
Starting Nepal’s green school movement
Surkhet has a new, community focused eco-friendly school that could be a model for others
“Investing in Nepal is risk free”
Capacity and WillpowerThere are immense opportunities waiting for investment to uplift the living standard of 30 million honest and hardworking…
Nepal has to curb corruption before wooing investors
On Thursday, a worker puts up the registration desk as part of preparations for the Investment Summit at Hotel Soaltee, Kathmandu. Photos:…
Overseas Nepalis are not impressed
https://youtu.be/NR6mf_rrRb0Learning from the success of overseas Chinese and Indians investing in their homeland, the Nepal government…
A roller coaster ride
Photo: BIKRAM RAINepal introduced the Foreign Investment and Technology Transfer Act (FITTA) in 1992, but it lags behind South Asian economies…
Invest in investment
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAILet us just say, for the sake of argument, that Nepal has now untangled its politics, formed a Constitution, the…
More than half of Nepal’s electricity imported from India
Naya Patrika, 14 JanuaryNepal imported 653MW electricity from India on Friday, the biggest amount so far since the country ended powercuts three…