Integrated Settlements Failed Due to Lack of Social, Environmental, and Economic Integration: Minister Ghising

Minister for Energy, Water Resources and Irrigation; Physical Infrastructure and Transport; and Urban Development, Kulman Ghising, has said that the Integrated Settlement Program failed because it could not effectively integrate the social,...

Migration crisis: Climate change is trapping millions in harm’s way

Climate change is reshaping where people can safely live, but its fingerprints on migration are subtle. Seas are creeping higher, crops are failing more often, and droughts, storms, and wildfires are intensifying. Yet when people explain why they...

To Grouse and Kvech 2: Ruins, Climate Art, and Revisiting the Anthropocene

Alexis Rockman (b. 1962, New York City) is a leading painter of the Anthropocene, known for richly researched images that reimagine natural history through ecology and genetics. A School of Visual Arts graduate, he combines fieldwork with studio...

Minister Kharel urges media to create conducive environment for polls

Kathmandu, Oct 13: Minister for Communications and Information Technology Jagadish Kharel has urged the media to create an environment conducive to the upcoming elections scheduled for March 5, 2026. During a meeting with the editors and...

Chaos, Conflict And Confusion Prevails In Nepal Politics After Gen-Z Protest

Nepal faces a growing risk of confrontation following the Gen-Z leaders' campaign demanding the arrest of former Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli and Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak for their alleged roles in the killing of 19 protesters during the...

‘Free Tibet’ bogeyman raised against naming Humla youth as Minister in Nepal’s interim government

(TibetanReview.net, Oct13’25) – As Nepal’s interim Prime Minister considers appointing a woman, apparently of Tibetan Buddhist heritage, from the country’s border with Tibet as a minister, the Gen Z leaders from her province have demanded that her...

Pesticide-packed vegetables flood Kathmandu markets again

Pesticide-laced vegetables have once again flooded markets in the Kathmandu Valley, despite repeated warnings from government laboratories about chemical contamination. On Monday, laboratory tests on round chilli (akabare khursani) detected...

Fund resilience, not disasters: Building a safer future for Nepal

File The investment done after the disaster is a late investment. This year’s International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction (IDDRR) theme, “Fund Resilience, Not Disasters”, is a stark reminder for Nepal to focus on proactive, planned and...

Kathmandu Unveils ‘Outside, Your Comfort Zone’ Global Brand Campaign Via Motion Sickness

Kathmandu‘s new global brand campaign, ‘Outside, your comfort zone,’ offers a reminder to those who spend more time indoors than ever that outside can be as comforting as the couch, brought to life via Motion Sickness. ‘Outside, your comfort zone’...

Women’s Economic Empowerment: A Key to Nepal’s Sustainable Economic Growth

Despite progress in promoting the rights and opportunities of women and girls in Nepal, deep-rooted gender inequalities persist, hindering their full participation in the country’s economy. According to 2024 World Bank data, women make up 52.1% of...

Nepal’s democracy crisis: When dysfunction invites reversal

A critical question now emerges: Is Nepal’s 8th September Gen Z uprising—conjoined with the formation of an interim government and the booking of top political leaders of the traditional political parties, particularly the Nepali Congress (NC),...

How important is environmental awareness in management and organizations?

“We clearly need more managers to understand how the Earth’s ecological systems work.” A recent study by the Stockholm Resilience Centre shows that seven out of nine planetary boundaries are now breached. These include climate change, biosphere...

Nepal’s health paradox

In 1991, Nepal took a bold step towards modernising its health system by introducing its first comprehensive national health policy. Rooted in the principles of the Alma-Ata Declaration of 1978, the policy aimed to extend primary health care to...

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...

Snow leopard habitats could be at risk from climate change

Published on 12/10/2025 - 7:00 GMT+2 Snow leopards are at a high risk of extinction in the wild. Poaching and habitat destruction threaten the felines, which are native to the mountain ranges of Central and Asia. But a new study, published in the...

Why Nepal’s Generation Z Split Matters

Having inspired the nation with a vibrant display of civic engagement in early September, Nepal’s Generation Z now faces a pivotal moment. What was once a strong drive for renewal and reform could become a story of internal disagreements and...

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...

How data gaps deepen climate injustice in the Himalayas

A Himalayan glacial lake. Image from Pexels. This article was submitted as part of the Global Voices Climate Justice fellowship, which pairs journalists from Sinophone and Global Majority countries to investigate the effects of Chinese development...

We Are Not Waiting: Nepal's Gen Z and Our Wake-Up Call

They say we are impatient. Perhaps we are. However, it is because we have been brought up in a system that constantly tells us to wait - for jobs, for justice, for accountability, for a future that never seems to materialize. We have waited long...

To graduate or not to graduate: Nepal faces dilemma over LDC upgrade

Kathmandu, Oct. 12: Amidst the estimated 3-5 per cent loss to the economy due to arson and vandalism of the public and private property and businesses during the Gen-Z movement in September this year, and fear of poor economic performance,...