Demand for various breeds of pet dogs has been increasing gradually in the Kathmandu Valley, thanks to a growing trend of keeping pets.

As summer sets in, apparel stores in the Kathmandu Valley have rolled out a wide range of summer clothing and discount offers to lure customers.

With more Kathmanduites eating organic foods and knowledge about stores selling them spreading, sales of products made without the use of chemical inputs have swelled in the valley.

Shweta Manandhar is an out-of-town student, and soaring market prices have made life difficult for her. Her parents send her Rs20,000 per month with which she has to pay for her living expenses, tuition fees, utilities and rental for the apartment that she shares with a friend in Battisputali.

Wednesday afternoon at half past two, Thakur Ram Karki, manager of Valley Rikesh Suppliers, Gairigaon, was getting ready to start the second shift at his gasoline station to sell diesel.

Desperate housewives and unending gas shortage woes