With the completion of the three tiers of local, provincial and national elections, building a prosperous (sambridha) Nepal is a moral and political obligation for the new governments.

In April 1970, a Saturn V rocket dispatched the Apollo 13 mission towards the moon with astronauts James Lovell, Jack Swigert and Fred Haise.

The impacts of increased concentration of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere such as average temperature rise and changes in precipitation dynamics that pose an existential threat to millions in the global south are frequently discussed.

Ruling elites in influencial countries need to wake up and begin to shift to zero carbon development pathways

I rode my first bullet train from Beijing to Shanghai in 2015. Hurtling towards Shanghai at 300 km/hour, I went into a reverie of my train journeys as an engineering student at Rourkela of India during the 1970s, when steam locomotives were still used to haul carriages. I remember enjoying the journey and admiring the engineering marvel of the moving locomotives.

Simply incorporating the term in the local lexicon without unpacking its tenets could render the concept meaningless

Stories of Nepali families devastated by earthquakes, floods, droughts, and other hazards will proliferate in the future

Sustainable urbanisation is essential to protect cities against future natural disasters

Critical examination of reconstruction in Muzaffarabad can provide valuable lessons for Nepal’s efforts