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Dirty air kills both Indians and Pakistanis
The two estranged sibling nations have a common enemy to battle in 2025: lethal air pollution
Navigating invisible borders
Soap operas were created for housewives, who would watch them after putting their day’s work to rest, as though visiting old friends in the emptiness of their days
Nepali doctor's love for Urdu poetry
A Nepali emergency physician with a passion for Urdu couplets wows Pakistanis
Things are up in the air in Nepal
Photos: AMIT MACHAMASIEveryone in Kathmandu knows we breathe some of the dirtiest air in the world. As if we needed any more proof, a new study…
Indo-Pak tension hits SAARC climate action
Tilicho Lake in Manang. The SAARC member states are among the countries most at risk from effects of climate change, yet a regional approach to…
Nepal’s glaring food gap
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIAlthough the undernutrition rate in Nepal has dropped dramatically in the past two decades, a quarter of its children still…
Giving start-ups a head start
About 250 years ago when King Prithivi Narayan Shah made Kathmandu the capital of unified Nepal, he realised that the city had great potential…
Covid's regional threat needs regional response
As the Delta variant spreads death and disruption across South Asia, prominent public health experts have said Covid-19 cannot be defeated…
What can we do till vaccines arrive?
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThis op-ed is being simultaneously published in the Indian Express (India), The Daily Star (Bangladesh), Nepali Times…
He shot down a fighter, then shot to fame
It was a hazy December morning in 1971 at the strategic Chicken Neck frontline between India and what was then East Pakistan. Dhan Bahadur Rai…
All-Nepali winter first on K2
First photo of the Nepalis on the summit of K2 at 5pm on 16 January. Sona Sherpa on the top with the conical shadow of the mountain behind him.…
Reconnecting India to rest of Asia
PM of India. Illustration: BHANU BHATTARAISince China launched the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to connect and integrate the Afro-Eurasian…
20 years ago this week
Nepali Times issue #1The #1 print edition of Nepali Times of 19-25 July 2000 shows that even though much has changed in Nepal in the past two…
A shot in the arm for vaccines in Nepal
Photo : UNICEFLast month, the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a study of the successful trial of a new typhoid vaccine…
Remembering IC814
India Airlines Airbus300 that was hijacked on 24 December 1999 at Afghanistan's Kandahar airport.The world was waiting with bated breath for all…
Our favourite photos from South Asian Games 2019
Opening Ceremony. All Photos: BIKRAM RAI and MONIKA DEUPALA Women's boxing under 54kg: Nepal vs India A Nepali cyclists at the Road Cycling…
South Asian Games 3 December Recap
Photos: BIKRAM RAI and RSSThe highlights of the third day of the South Asian Games included India's domination of the athletic events and…
South Asian Games Recap 2 December
Photos: BIKRAM RAI AND RSSThe second day of the 13th South Asian Games saw Nepali athletes dominate the arena, with most wins in taekwondo and…
Feasting on documentary films
Chair of Film South Asia Kanak Mani Dixit with musician Amrit Gurung. Photo: FILM SOUTH ASIAFrom the inaugural documentary Indus Blues, it…
The Lumba Sumba Passage
Trekking is evolving fast on once remote east Nepal routes
A personal encyclopaedia of the Himalaya
Photo: PETER DEANIf there is one book you must set aside, either for new year holiday reading or as a Christmas gift to a fellow traveller, it…
2019 shortlist announced for DSC Prize
Harish Trivedi, Jury Chair of the DSC Prize 2019, at the Shortlist Announcement event in LondonThe 2019 shortlist of books for the annual DSC…
Film Southasia 2019
Film Southasia is held every two years, and in 2019 the theme of the festival of documentary films says it all: ‘Where the Mind Is Free’.…
In Mohammed Hanif’s crosshairs
If you enjoyed Mohammed Hanif’s A Case of Exploding Mangoes, it will have prepared you for another scathing satire from the Pakistani novelist…