Growing up in a middle-class South Asian family, the media access I was given was chosen by the men in the family--they were ...

Some of the tattoos that the artists inked for free were simple human patterns. If somebody got many tattoos made, the ...

A young non-resident Newa person in Dallas emails a New York Times article to his grandfather in Nepal who cannot read English. Grandad copies the English text, pastes it into Google Translate to read ...

I was just 13 when I married an India-born Nepali from Achham. An arranged marriage, I first saw my husband only at the wedding ceremony. I moved to India from Achham when I was so young that I ...

2025 marks ten years since the free-visa-free-ticket policy was introduced that caps worker paid fees at Rs10,000 if employers do not cover it. But there is not much to celebrate since workers ...

Villages along the proposed alignment of Nepal’s ambitious east-west train project are excited about the connectivity and development it will bring. But here in Hariban village there is only ...

When a dozen tiger range countries met in St. Petersburg for a summit in 2010, they committed to doubling the population of their big cats in 12 years. Nepal became the first country to not just ...

As a struggling photographer in Bhaktapur 30 years ago, Kishor Kayastha could not even afford furniture. Buying a new lens was out of the question. Later, as one of Nepal’s top fashion and travel ...

KATHMANDU, 15 JANUARY 1934: Ruins of the Ghanta Ghar tower after the Great Earthquake 91 years ago that killed 10,000 people in Kathmandu Valley. ALL PHOTOS: KEDAR MANI DIXIT ARCHIVES The new year ...

NIC Asia Bank has helped construct and launch a library at Birendra Adarsh Secondary School in Rapti Municipality in Chitwan. The Bank has a budget of Rs20 million for constructing libraries in ...

The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) likes to pick fights and has been at odds with Sagarmatha National Park after it, the Namche local government and Lukla businesses banned commercial ...

Samsung has launched two models of a 12-kg washing machine that uses AI to learn the user’s laundry habits and minimise water and energy consumption. The dial-controlled model is priced at Rs114,990, ...