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Nurturing Nepal's care economy

Nepal, July 6 -- There is a long-standing economic assumption that work without a wage is not 'real' work, yet the deeper issue lies beyond adding monetary value to it. Can assigning a price to care ... Read More


What hunger does before a child can even speak

Nepal, July 5 -- Sarmila was 19. She already had three daughters and was four months pregnant with a fourth child. She was thin, in ragged clothes and worn-out slippers, but with thick dark hair, com... Read More


Attire into art, art into attire

Nepal, July 4 -- Shivangini Rana used to paint as a hobby whenever she had free time from her hotel job. During the long lonely days of Covid lockdowns, she took to art more seriously. She sold her d... Read More


A Nepali's African dream

Nepal, July 3 -- This is the 96th episode of Diaspora Diaries, a Nepali Times series in collaboration with Migration Lab providing a platform to share experiences of living, working and studying abroa... Read More


Sneha's homecoming

Nepal, July 2 -- After literally making her mark in American cities with 'calligrafitti', artist Sneha Shrestha is back home to rediscover her roots and give new meaning to her murals. Shrestha is in... Read More


First public transport, then only mass transit

Nepal, July 1 -- On 15 May 2026, the Railways Department issued a notice inviting expressions of interest from international consulting firms to prepare a detailed project report (DPR) for a 27.5 km m... Read More


Cleaning up Mt Everest top to bottom

Nepal, June 30 -- At Kathmandu airport, hundreds of visitors loaded with backpacks and trekking gear fly daily to the Khumbu region, the gateway to Everest. Whether trekking, climbing mountains, or e... Read More


Rise and fall of the Hetauda-Kathmandu ropeway..

Nepal, June 28 -- 1955 Nepal's Draft Five-Year Plan contemplated the construction of a new ropeway with a carrying capacity of 20 tons per hour between Kathmandu to Hetauda or to Amlekhganj to replace... Read More


Rise and fall of the Hetauda-Kathmandu ropeway

Nepal, June 28 -- 1955 Nepal's Draft Five-Year Plan contemplated the construction of a new ropeway with a carrying capacity of 20 tons per hour between Kathmandu to Hetauda or to Amlekhganj to replace... Read More


Nepal's forgotten cultural revolution

Nepal, June 27 -- The schoolteacher walked ahead of me through the terraced hillside above Dullu in the west of Nepal, and paused where the path crests a small rise to gesture at a clearing below. We ... Read More