How Kul Labs—an e-learning platform with more than  200,000 monthly users—is here to change how you view education in Nepal.

SOCHAI was announced the winner of Lead 2030 Challenge for Sustainable Development Goal’s Zero Hunger category.

Using vending machines to sell sanitary napkins, Pad2Go hopes to dispense with menstrual taboos.

Bajra Brick is in the market to bring greener ways to the trade—manufacturing bricks and tiles through smoke and dust free methods

After several camera strap prototypes and product tests, Yatri Supply produced a first-run of 15 camera straps, which were either sold or distributed for free among their friends and families.

In a competitive ecommerce landscape, cheers.com.np has managed to distinguish itself by delivering alcohol to doorstops, and offering impeccable customer service.

When Tuladhar returned to Kathmandu in 2016, after a decade of living abroad, he’d acquired a strong taste for cocktails. But in Kathmandu, he discovered that the cocktails didn’t suit his palate, leading him to make his own, and share them with his family and friends.

Despite this increasing demand for qualified personnel in the IT and communications sector, numerous problems remain with Nepali job seekers, say human resource management companies.

In the last decade, coffee made in a pressure cooker has taken Butwal by storm

One person’s trash is another person’s treasure, so goes the old adage, but two women—Ojaswi Baidya and Loonibha Manandhar—seem to have taken this saying to heart. They are co-founders of Tyre Treasure, a company that turns old, used tyres from cars, trucks and buses into recycled furniture.

“Craft adds colour to our homes, but more than that, it serves functionality,” says Astha Rajbhandari, founder and creative director of Kala Kathmandu. “Most people do not see craft in that light. Functional things are not seen as something that can be aesthetically pleasing.”

Born and raised around Patan Durbar Square, Pravin Chitrakar was always surrounded by centuries of culture and heritage. As he grew older, his sense of wonder at the intricacy and beauty of his architectural heritage never ceased. Upon completing his civil engineering degree from Nagpur in 1992, Chitrakar returned to Kathmandu and began helping out his family, who was involved with Patan Handicrafts.

It might seem strange that a graduate degree holder in IT operates a thriving handicrafts import-export business, but that’s exactly what Rabi Malla does.

At the mountain hilltop of Silinge, Makwanpur, Chepang farmers produce honey from the nectar of wild tree—Chuiri. The delectable honey that swiftly melts in one’s mouth, initially was extracted from over 5,000 hives.

For centuries now, Nepal has been known as an agricultural country where food travels straight from farm or garden to home. However we have come to an age where most of us, especially those living in the city, no longer know where the food we eat comes from.

More often than not, thinking of a plumber or an electrician conjures up images of a man on the job. Almost all carpentry shops and motorcycle service centres across the country have an all-male workforce.

A US college dropout, Aashish Adhikari returned to Kathmandu in 2011 to start anew. While on a short trip to visit his grandparents in Kavre, he discovered that his ancestral lands were perfectly suited to planting coffee.

In the 1990s, when the Nepali garment industry was at its peak, Hira Muktan established a factory catering to private labels in various European countries, exporting Nepal-made products to the international market.

In the last couple of years, Jhamsikhel in Lalitpur has become a hub for ethical fashion and Made-in-Nepal products. The area is popular among locals, expats and tourists alike for products that are not readily available elsewhere.

With the New Year, resolutions are made every year to exercise more, stay healthy and walk and run more. But as with most resolutions, a few weeks into the new year, they tend to get forgotten. But if you could get paid for staying fit, would that encourage you to walk or run more?