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Nepal PM expands her Cabinet
New ministers include technocrats who have performed well in specific professions
Madam Prime Minister of Nepal
Sushila Karki is Nepal’s first female PM, but has her work cut out to give the country a new beginning
Lockdown+5
Nepal clamped its first Covid lockdown on 24 March 2020, and five years later many have forgotten what it was like
Overachiever govt
From time to time, as our nation state marches ahead to the drumbeat of history, we have to remind ourselves of the tremendous achievements of…
Why are labour officials transferred frequently?
Former DoFe officials says reform is not easy in a sector where malpractice is rife
Himalayan red rice is red hot
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAJumla’s marsi red rice earned some notoriety in 2018 after a photograph went viral on social media of Prime Minister K P…
Legal path to new Nepal government
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASINepal’s Supreme Court on 23 February reinstated the House of Representatives and ordered Parliament to convene within 13…
History of female (im)mobility in Nepal
A proposal by Nepal’s Immigration Department requiring consent from a guardian and local government for women under the age of 40 travelling to…
Back in the streets
Nepal’s recent history has been marked by milestones popularly remembered as People’s Movements. The first one in 1980 got us a referendum on…
Splitting and spitting
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRIPrime Minister K P Oli landed himself in fresh controversy after he punctuated his speech at the National Assembly…
Zero-sum game for Nepal’s ruling Communists
Illustration: DIWAKAR CHHETRI Prime Minister K P Oli was half way through his one hour delivery to the Upper House on Sunday, defending his move…
Over the edge, again
Illustration: SUBHAS RAI / NEPALI TIMES #22, 22-28 DECEMBER 2000Nepal has been on a knife-edge in 2020 because of the pandemic, but the…
Over the edge, again
Illustration: SUBHAS RAI / NEPALI TIMES #22, 22-28 DECEMBER 2000Nepal has been on a knife-edge in 2020 because of the pandemic, but the…
Unique hospital handover in Dolakha
Charikot Hospital in 2015 after it was upgraded from a primary health care centre by Nyaya Health Nepal. Photo: Nyaya Health Nepal. In one of…
Outside, looking in
For a government with a hefty majority that loftily promised voters prosperity and stability, the Nepal Communist Party (NCP) has been able to…
Govinda KC and the Right to Life
"How thirsty he must be. I hope his fast will end soon," said Dr Govinda KC's mother on a video that was shared online. Her sentiment is shared…
How much will electric cars cost now?
The same Cabinet meeting on 1 October that decided to nominate Yubaraj Khatiwada as Nepal’s new ambassador to the United States also partially…
Lockdown eased in Kathmandu
Signs for seven provinces at Kathmandu airport. All photos: BIKRAM RAIThe jumbled up signs for seven provinces at Kathmandu airport is symbolic…
Students object to No Objection rule
When she heard in March that she was accepted for a master’s degree in urban management in The Netherlands, Surena Shrestha was ecstatic. Then…
At midpoint, Nepal PM struggles to deliver
Prime Minister K P Oli made some grandiose declarations to bring ocean-going vessels to Nepal's borders. Even less ambitious goals have not been…
Far from home during a pandemic
About 2,000 Nepalis are among foreign workers quarantined in a camp between streets 1-32 of the Industrial Area near Doha that has been closed…
A millennium challenge
Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAILegend has it that the real reason Nepal stayed an independent nation state while all around us were colonised was…
Nearly half of Nepali children still malnourished
Mother's group in Accham feed home-cooked meal to their children. Photo: MARTY LOGANFor the first two decades after 1990, Nepal took great…
‘Stop stalling’ transitional justice: global human rights bodies
Subhas RaiFour global human rights bodies took the unusual step Monday of issuing a joint statement condemning the Nepal Government’s inaction…