When Rajesh Siddhi, Bhaskar Dhungana and Nakim Uddin (pic, left to right) revamped and launched the standalone movie theatre QFX Jai Nepal in Kathmandu over a decade ago, little did they envision that ...

Exactly a hundred years ago in May 1915 the allied forces, stiffened by reinforcements from the Indian 29th Brigade, which included three Nepali Gurkha battalions, clustered on the beaches of ...

When South Asia’s first community radio went on air in Kathmandu in May 1997, Nepalis were electing representatives to VDCs, DDCs and municipalities in the midst of a war that had just started.

Kathmandu Valley is where mythology and geology intertwine. The former holds that the Tibetan saint, Manjushree, flew down to Kathmandu. Upon seeing the huge lake, he cut the Chobhar ridge in half ...

A few days after Christmas of 1952, Paul W. Rose, the highest-ranking American based in Nepal, left Kathmandu with several Nepali, American, and European colleagues for a reconnaissance trip to ...

In 1989, the Rajiv Gandhi-led government imposed an economic blockade against Nepal because of a dispute over transit treaties and its uneasiness over Nepal’s growing closeness with China. As the ...

Ketaki Chester was a cousin of King Birendra, and was present with her sister at the Naryanhiti Palace on 1 June 2001 when Crown Prince Dipendra killed nine members of his family, including himself.

So little was known about him during the first five years of the war that many in Kathmandu were convinced Prachanda didn't exist. Other leaders of the Maoist movement, like ideologue Baburam ...

The 12-point agreement between the Maoists and the seven-party alliance as listed in statement by Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Tuesday. 1. Today, the main desire of most Nepalis is to have democracy, peace, ...

In 1970, when Crown Prince Birendra got married, as a wedding present the German government renovated the Pujari Math (pic, below) in Bhaktapur. One of the architects involved was Niels Gutschow (box) ...

"I m afraid I shall have to cut you in half, Sir Edmund," said the queen, advancing towards the cake with a scimitar-like knife. There was the time when Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were ...

CLEAN PLATES: The restaurant at Pithauli before opening hours. In the last 15 years 95 percent of South Asia's vulture population has vanished. The fall in their population has been linked to an ...