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Nepal's yak economy

Nepal, April 20 -- When Nepal decided to mark the annual National Yak Day on 20 April 2025, it celebrated an animal that has been the backstay of mountain livelihoods for centuries. The sure-footed ... Read More


Drawing divine femininity

Nepal, April 19 -- Italian artist celebrates womanhood and shared spiritual identity in ongoing exhibition An invocation is an act in which one appeals to a higher being for support and inspiration. I... Read More


The long and winding road to India

Nepal, April 18 -- Only 70 years ago, Kathmandu was the isolated capital of a country that had no modern surface transport link with the rest of the world. The idea of building a road to connect Nep... Read More


Nepal drone startup takes off

Nepal, April 17 -- Garuda hopes the new government will ease restrictions that have grounded UAV applications The series Nepal Made profiles Nepali products and the people who make them possible. Nam... Read More


Regime change - sometimes it works, often it doesn't

Nepal, April 15 -- Donald Trump ran on a platform of ending wars. After his success in Venezuela, he is intoxicated by his military achievements and is banking on regime change in several countries. I... Read More


The nation's daughter

Nepal, April 13 -- Father of Deputy Speaker of Nepal's Parliament Ruby Thakur on raising a family as a lifetime migrant worker This is the 91st episode of Diaspora Diaries, a Nepali Times series in co... Read More


How to win friends and influence nations

Nepal, April 12 -- 'One early morning, we heard the ambassador's wife cry out, "Ram, Ram, Ram!" A disaster has befallen Nepal!" She had heard on the radio that a fire had consumed Singha Durbar." Thi... Read More


From Mahottari to Malaysia

Nepal, April 11 -- The Musahar community lives in the Nepal Tarai and India, they have been historically excluded and are at the bottom of the economic and caste ladder. Many families still work as sh... Read More


He said no to politics. Now he runs it.

Nepali, April 10 -- Plotting Sudan Gurung's rise from disaster relief volunteer to home minister In a classic arc of political sociology, a revolutionary figure takes several decades to complete their... Read More


Nepal's new government springs into action

Nepal, April 9 -- RSP is off to a spirited start, but must not revert to patronage-driven politics Prime Minister Balendra Shah on Wednesday broke tradition and met with 17 foreign envoys collectively... Read More