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Monsoon storms batter Nepal

Nepal, Sept. 27 -- month after the catastrophic flood on the Bhote Kosi-Trisuli, Nepal has been battered by a late monsoon storm that caused a deadly avalanche on a mountaineering peak on Sunday, land... Read More


Nepal, one month after

Nepal, Sept. 26 -- This Saturday it is exactly one month since the catastrophe on the Bhote Kosi-Trisuli. The death toll in Nepal and China is exceeding 8,000. One month on, only 110 of the 1,450 rec... Read More


Rethinking risk and development in the Himalaya

Nepal, Sept. 25 -- The World Weather Attribution rapid review last week of climate models based on weather observations and existing geological research reinforced what scientists have long argued: cl... Read More


Departure from the norm

Nepal, Sept. 24 -- When Prime Minister Balendra Shah departed from Kathmandu on Tuesday on a scheduled Qatar Airways flight, there was no guard of honour, no diplomats and officials lining up to say b... Read More


At Dag Hammarskjold's grave, 65 years later

Nepal, Sept. 23 -- The Dag Hammarskjold grave in Uppsala in Sweden is a quiet place, a long way from New York and from the wars the United Nations exists to prevent. He died exactly 65 years ago on 1... Read More


Himalayan expeditions hunker down as monsoon storm approaches

Nepal, Sept. 22 -- Autumn climbing season is in full swing but difficult weather conditions due to a deep depression from the Bay of Bengal heading towards Nepal From 24-27 September poses a danger to... Read More


Nepal on high alert for heavy rain

Nepal, Sept. 21 -- A depression over the Bay of Bengal set to hit the Odisha coast may intensify into a cyclone, veer north and threaten heavy rain in the Bhote Kosi-Trisuli valley that was ravaged by... Read More


Nepal takes its message to the world

Nepal, Sept. 20 -- Prime Minister Balendra Shah is making his first foreign trip to speak at the United Nations General Assembly on 24 September, and just about everyone everywhere is giving him advic... Read More


The Mary Slusser expose

Nepal, Sept. 20 -- On 16 September, Nepal's cybersphere woke up rattled and divided after an explosive investigation in Himal Southasian by Erin L. Thompson exposing the deeply compromised legacy of A... Read More


Nepal appoints non-political figures as ambassadors

Nepal, Sept. 19 -- fter months of delay, the Nepal government has appointed 13 new ambassadors to various countries from where envoys had been recalled after last year's GenZ protest led to regime cha... Read More