Nepal's revolution and India's backyard diplomacy

Kathmandu’s blazes of this month are not just Nepal’s issue—their peril is for South Asia. The explosion of protests by Nepal’s impatient youth against corruption, elitism, and inequality toppled Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and rattled the very...

Labaid's AI push: Local developers lead innovation in healthcare technology

Highlights: Labaid developing AI-driven healthtech and 30 cancer centres nationwide Operates VirtuCare BD and Life Plus with 500,000 users Built proprietary LLM trained on 6–7 million medical datasets Created Labaid GPT for AI medical analysis and...

Nepal’s Energy Roadmap 2035: Can We Bridge the USD 40 Billion Gap?

Jiwan Kumar Mallik is a renewable energy and climate policy expert with 15+ years experience in energy sector. He recently completed his Master in Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School as a John F. Kennedy Fellow and received the...

The rise of Nepal’s first woman Prime Minister

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” This quote by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, makes a lot of sense in contemporary Nepal, as the night of September 12, 2025 was marked as a landmark day in Nepal’s...

The Chinese Creep into Nepal: A Historical and Contemporary Narrative

As the first rays of daylight filter over the hills surrounding Pashupatinagar — a Nepali border town in the Ilam District adjoining India’s West Bengal — the summer rain turns them a luminous green. The marketplace wakes in a manner that feels...

After Nepal’s Gen Z protests, Delhi Police chief asks units to ready plan for similar unrest

Against the backdrop of the recent Gen Z protests in Nepal, which spiralled into violence and forced a regime change, Delhi Police Commissioner Satish Golchha is learnt to have directed three units — the Intelligence branch, Operations unit and...

Vriitya Aravind's bravery in vain after UAE miss out on T20 World Cup to Nepal

Vriitya Aravind opted out of having an X-ray on his injured hand to ensure he played in the UAE’s winner-takes-all fixture against Nepal. The UAE wicketkeeper was struck on his right hand while batting against Hong Kong in their final group match...

₹48 lakh fraud case linked to PLFI chief Dinesh Gope exposed

Ranchi: A sensational case has surfaced in which PLFI supremo Dinesh Gope was allegedly duped of ₹48 lakh by a man from Gujarat, who posed as a suspended employee of the Prime Minister’s Office–affiliated National Technical Research Organisation...

Global IME Bank: Redefining Excellence in Nepali Banking

Kathmandu, Oct 26: When Global Finance magazine announced the winners of its “Best Bank Awards 2025”, Nepal’s Global IME Bank Limited once again stood tall on the global stage. Honored as Nepal’s Best Bank for the second consecutive year, Global...

Values Of Laboratory Data In Diagnosis

Diagnosis is both an art and science in modern medicine. Physicians’ intuition, experience, and interaction with patients are the art, and laboratory values are the science. Hence, laboratory investigations become the heart of diagnosis that are...

World News | Nepal President Hospitalised, Health Condition Normal: Hospital Announces

Kathmandu [Nepal], October 11 (ANI): Nepal President Ram Chandra Paudel was admitted to the Manmohan Cardiothoracic Vascular and Transplant Centre in Kathmandu on Saturday after experiencing health-related complications. According to the hospital,...

Nepal GenZs inspired Filipinos

One is an archipelago, the other is landlocked. But the Philippines and Nepal have a lot in common: both are disaster-prone, their economies dependent on overseas migrant workers, and a feudal order dominated by unaccountable political dynasties....

After Nepal, why have youth-led protests rocked Morocco and Madagascar?

After Indonesia, the Philippines and Nepal, youth-led protests (often dubbed “Gen Z protests”) have been witnessed in recent days in the North African nation of Morocco and the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar. On Sunday (October 12), the...

KOICA Nepal Office Concludes 2025 Knowledge Sharing Program

Kathmandu, October 08, 2025 — The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) Nepal Office, in collaboration with the KOICA Alumni Association of Nepal (KAAN), successfully concluded the 2025 KOICA–KAAN Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP). The...

A month after gen Z protests, change is uneasily slow

Prakash Bohora was one of the first of Nepal’s gen Z protesters to feel the sting of a police bullet. Like thousands of other young people, he had taken to the streets of the capital last month to protest against corruption and a draconian ban on...

Lessons in agriculture from Nepal’s Indigenous Kulung people

It was 8pm and everyone in the house was preparing to sleep after dinner, but the fire was still flickering in one corner of the kitchen. Sambarman Okhati, a 66-year-old elder of the family, bore a hint of concern while hunching over a boiling...

The Rubin Names 2025 Art Prize Winner and 15 Recipients of Research and Art Projects Grants

The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, which closed its brick and mortar New York space in 2024 and now operates as a “global museum,” has named the recipient of its annual art prize, as well as the grantees for its research and art projects. The...

Building a Solar Tricycle in Nepal - A US Student's Experience

As August began and my summer drew to a close, a notification appeared on my phone from Bloomberg, proclaiming Nepal as the global leader in EV adoption. It may have been surprising to many that a small, landlocked country could surpass larger...

Jayesh Logistics IPO opens today. Check GMP, price band, subscription and other details

Jayesh Logistics will open its Rs 28.63-crore IPO for subscription on Monday with the issue attracting cautious optimism in the SME segment. The public offer, which closes on October 29, is a fresh issue of 23.47 lakh shares, entirely comprising...

In ‘Swasparsha’, literature becomes Nepal’s most accessible medicine

In the landscape of modern Nepali literature, where new releases often rely on predictable hype, a work has quietly emerged from the country’s rugged outskirts that invites a fundamental rethinking of what a book can accomplish. Dr Nawaraj KC’s...