While the leaders at the Baluwatar summit were knuckling down to determine the course of Nepalese politics Thursday, ordinary people and pressure groups were on the streets to pressure the leaders to bring the talks to a logical conclusion without further delay. On Thursday, streets around the Prime Minister’s...

It was a national tragedy when the country lost noted nature conservationists, senior officials of the Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation and Kathmandu-based foreign missions in one of the deadliest crashes in Nepalese aviation history, which was officially confirmed after three days, on Monday. Carrying 24 people, the...

As Maoist leaders were making fiery speeches from the Open Air Theatre (Tundikhel) on Monday, Nepalnews spoke to some of the students — brought in packed buses to take part in the 17 th national convention of the Maoist-affiliated All Nepal National Independent Student Union (Revolutionary)—on what did they...

With the restoration of democracy in Nepal the interest of Indian investors in the hydropower sector here has grown significantly. The two-day Power Summit 2006 in Kathmandu that kicked off on Thursday with participation of a number of big Indian investors reflects that they want to try their hand...

In his book, ‘Asian Drama’ (1968), Swedish Nobel laureate, Gunnar Myrdal, talks about the ‘soft state syndrome’ to highlight tendencies where the governments announce decisions but fail to implement them. Last week’s government’s decision to hike the price of petroleum product and later to withdraw it within 48 hours...

Even as women participation in newer areas of public duties is on rise, Nepali women professionals quite uniquely still stick to some cultural practices and beliefs transferred to them from generations. Take for instance how passionately the policewomen at the all-women traffic police post in Thapathali, Kathmandu, seem to...