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COP30 to COP31

Kathmandu, Nov. 25 -- This year's climate summit in Brazil began with the United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, acknowledging our moral failure to limit global temperature rise to 1.5C. ... Read More


The beekeeper of Surkhet

Kathmandu, Nov. 25 -- As a young girl, Jaysara Baral remembers trying to gently catch bumblebees buzzing around flowers at springtime, curious to know what they would feel like in the palm of her hand... Read More


Storing rain inside mountains

Nepal, Nov. 24 -- Scenic Dhankuta revives traditional water management practices to boost ecotourism Groundwater is like a phone battery, it needs to be regularly recharged. As springs go dry across t... Read More


Double trouble with taxes

Kathmandu, Nov. 21 -- Double-taxation, profit repatriation and capital gains tax have always been a headache for foreign investors in dealing with rent-seeking that Nepal is infamous for. When Dolma ... Read More


Compensation for death of Nepali worker in Japan

Kathmandu, Nov. 21 -- The Tokyo High Court this week ordered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to pay over JPY39 million ($250,000) in damages to the family of Nepali migrant worker Arjun Bahadur Sing... Read More


"Neighbours not keen on sharing met data"

Kathmandu, Nov. 19 -- Nepali Times spoke to Director General Kamal Ram Joshi of Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) about weather extremes and changing rainfall patterns. Excerpts: Nepali T... Read More


Reconstructing the China India climate diplomacy

NEPAL, Nov. 18 -- How China and India address climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions will have a significant impact on the planet's future, given their growing economic and demographic wei... Read More


The Bon Po way of life

NEPAL, Nov. 18 -- As people move out of Nepal's trans-Himalayan districts, their faiths migrate with them to the cities and all over the world. The ancient animist faith of Bon Po predates the advent... Read More


Global warning bell in Belem

Kathmandu, Nov. 17 -- At the opening plenary of COP30, which stands for the convolutedly named 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in ... Read More


Party Time

Kathmandu, Nov. 14 -- New and old, businessmen and former diplomats, engineers and academics - they have all been trooping to the Election Commission to register political parties ahead of the Sunday ... Read More