Farmers are in need of various forms of support but people outside the target group are profiting due to the irregularities in the distribution of grants and subsidies.

As mayor, Rai’s model of development has been celebrated by locals for turning Dharan into a modern, cosmopolitan city.

Shailendu Prakash Nepal talks about writing, his favourite books and the new wave of Nepali grammar.

Although regulations are in place, political connections and influence are allowing haphazard—and illegal—extraction of sand and other riverbed materials across the country.

Just a few hours away from Kathmandu, Dhading gives you a taste of rural Nepal with its terraced fields and winding dirt roads.

Speed, overload, fatigued drivers and poorly maintained vehicles lead to crashes in the festival travel rush, authorities say.

From indulging in local Gurung cuisine to dancing to age-old cultural dances—there’s much to do in this idyllic little village

When the government of Bhutan expelled tens of thousands of its Nepali-speaking Lhotshampa population in 1991, branding them as “illegal settlers”, they fled to Nepal in hordes. Purna Bahadur Limbu was among those who crossed into Nepal via India with which Bhutan shared a poorly defined and largely unpatrolled border.

In a one-room shack in Kholi village in the western district of Bajhang, Laxmi Badi and her four children shiver the night away in hopes of warmer sunshine the next day. At night, they light a fire and try to stay warm. During the day, they lie in the sun and try to recapture the sleep they lost the night before to freezing temperatures.

Every time Captain Bed Upreti landed at the Tribhuwan International Airport, he would notice an Airbus 330 that had become a part of the furniture at the already crowded tarmac of the only international airport of Nepal. On March 2015, the jet had skidded off the runaway, and halted all international flights to the country for four days.

While the entire country is celebrating one of the biggest Nepali festivals, Dashain, the festival has failed to bring cheer to the earthquake survivors of Nilkantha Municipality in Dhading district, who are rendered homeless by the disaster.

The last time Kathmandu elected a mayor to head the city was almost two decades ago—when Keshav Sthapit was elected as mayor, and Bidur Mainali the deputy mayor.

Standing under a traffic light at Thapathali, Diwani Chaudhary is directing the office-hour traffic, manually. The Thapathali traffic light systems is one of the 365 placed at various junctions in the Capital. It is not one of the five that are still operational.

With concerns over the lowest-bidder tender system and disregard for traditional building methods, locals remain wary about the haphazard reconstruction of heritage sites in the Valley

Although the reconstruction of Boudhanath Stupa, one of the World Heritage Sites, has been completed as a result of the initiative taken by the Boudhanath Area Development Committee (BADC), reconstruction of other heritage sites in Kathmandu Valley has been delayed by almost a year.