Nobody expected the landslide victory that propelled the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led by Arvind Kejriwal to the Delhi Assembly in elections in February on an anti-corruption platform. He had failed his ...

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 ...

Nepal’s local elections are an important first step towards institutionalisation of the federal democratic structure outlined in the new Constitution. As the first local elections since 1997, they are ...

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 ...

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.

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, ...

"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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

No one is better placed to pen the history of the rise and fall of the Ranas than Sagar S.J.B. Rana. He is a family insider and political outsider, an Oxford-educated great grandson of Prime Minister ...

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 ...