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Creation to destruction, then revival
The ancient town of Panauti is preparing for its once-in-12-years Makar Mela this month, a festival that dates back 1,000 years. Despite the…
Vaccines too little, too late for Nepal?
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThere is breaking news every other day: the United States donates 2 million Moderna shots to Bangladesh and Pakistan.…
Bonhams cancels auction of Nepali antiquities
France’s Bonhams has withdrawn five 600-year-old religious objects stolen from Nepal from an ongoing auction after widespread international…
Despite doubts, Nepal sticks with AstraZeneca jabs
A health worker in Jumla administers Covidshield AstraZeneca vaccine to an elderly this week. Photo: LAXMI NGAKHUSI/UNICEF NEPALOver 1.6 million…
Tales of courage and suffering
For over two centuries now, Nepal’s real 'frontline workers’ have been its soldiers who fought and sacrificed their lives in foreign soil for…
Tales of courage and suffering
For over two centuries now, Nepal’s real 'frontline workers’ have been its soldiers who fought and sacrificed their lives in foreign soil for…
Diary of a Nepali soldier in France
Gurkhas in the trenches of France during World War I. More than 20,000 Nepali soldiers were killed fighting for the Allied Forces between…
Adventures of a lone archivist
King George V with Prime Minister Chandra Shumshere Rana with a tiger trophy in Chitwan in 1911. Sotheby’sArchiving should be a state…
Air-brushing history by toppling statues
Statue of Jang Bahadur Rana in Tundikhel in the 1972. Photo: Daniel W EdwardsFor thousands of years, adulatory statues have been installed and,…
Nepal COVID-19 lockdown extended till 7 April
Sunday's Cabinet meeting in Baluwatar where ministers and the prime minister maintained physical distancing. Photo RSSThe Nepal government…
10,000 tourists stuck in Nepal being evacuated
A Buddha Air ferry flight headed to Pokhara on Thursday afternoon over a completely empty air space over Nepal.A meeting of the COVID-19 control…
Nepal contact tracing 2nd COVID-19 case
Photo: BIKRAM RAIThe 19-year-old Nepali student boarded a Qatar Airways flight in Paris on Monday night, and after a brief transit in Doha,…
Nepal’s baby export
A major discrepancy between Nepal government and foreign records of the number of Nepali children adopted in North America and Europe has…
Nepal-France ties in photos
Nepal and France might be celebrating 70 years of diplomatic ties, but the links between the two countries began to be forged centuries…
Dance-drama takes trafficking head-on
Human trafficking makes for dramatic stories of suffering, struggle and survival, which is why it is frequently the theme on stage and screen…
Nepal's yak cheese is on world map
French cheesemaker Francois Driard (pictured) and his prize-winiing Yak Blue cheese from the mountains of Ramechhap district.A French…
Illiberal ills
Bhanu BhattaraiAcross the world, from the Philippines to the United States, and in Central European countries like Hungary and Poland, we have…