Sugar prices rise despite adequate stocks claim

Retail sugar prices have climbed by Rs15 per kg since India halted exports, but officials and industry representatives insist domestic supplies are sufficient to meet demand through Dashain.

Court begins hearing in fake Bhutanese refugee scam

Nearly three years after charges were filed, the Kathmandu District Court starts substantive proceedings in a case involving former ministers, senior officials and alleged brokers accused of defrauding hundreds with false US resettlement promises.

Bureaucrats in the Home Ministry are against transgender people

LGBTQI+ rights activist Rukshana Kapali discusses the stark gap between Nepal's international reputation for progressive laws and the rigid bureaucratic resistance, weaponised transphobia, and systemic gatekeeping that transgender individuals face daily.

Monkey nation

Most leaders in Nepal have exhibited textbook monkey behaviour. So have the public and the journalists.

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