Tag: #highway
Articles tagged with #highway
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…
Nepal’s other pandemic: road fatalities
More people die on Nepal's highways every year than in all natural disasters combined
Nepal building a highway to Everest
Excavators at work on Thamdada, 24km south of Lukla, despite the fact that the Khumbu Municipality has run out of money to complete the…
Ama Khando: a different road trip film from Nepal
Road-trips are not an established genre in Nepali films, like romance, action or comedy even though they may have all these elements. But in the…
Nepal’s first, and forgotten, tunnel
In all the current media hubbub about proposed highway tunnels in Thankot, Sanga, and the Tarai Fast Track, it may be worth remembering that…
Waiting till the cows come home
Photo: KUNDA DIXITThe first thing one notices these days while travelling by road in the Tarai are hundreds of cattle blocking the East-West…
In conservation, Nepal is not out of the woods yet
With poaching under control, the big new threat to Nepal’s nature is from infrastructure