TOB controversy: Security agencies keep Gen Z activist Gurung under surveillance

KATHMANDU, Oct 14: Surveillance on Gen Z activists has intensified after participants from the Free Tibet movement were seen during the Gen Z protests. The government ramped up monitoring after identifying members of the Tibetan Origin Blood (TOB)...

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...

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...

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,...

Party Reforms, Polls Key To Nepal’s Future

A month has elapsed since the unprecedented demonstration, initiated peacefully by the Gen Z group to protest against the ban imposed on social sites by the KP Sharma Oli-led government, and rampant corruption, which later turned violent,...

Nepal’s Biotech Dilemma: Why the Country Needs a National Department Now

If you had told me five years ago that I’d be writing this article from a cramped university dorm room, pursuing a PhD after a marathon of rejections back home, I would have laughed. Growing up in the dusty fields of the Terai, my family's lab was...

Mamata Banerjee slams airfare hike amid natural disaster, says will visit North Bengal again next week

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday criticised the spike in airfares from Bagdogra in the aftermath of the flood and landslides in the northern part of the state, calling it "discriminatory", and questioned why the...

Nepal beyond Everest: Adventure, culture and resilience in the Himalayas

Footprint Adventure’s Ganesh Adhikari discusses Nepal’s evolving tourism landscape, balancing adventure, sustainability, and recovery amid post-protest challenges. Amidst the business networking on the trade show floor at PATA Travel Mart in...

EinStrong’s 'ESi Mom' brings predictable support and opportunity to single mothers in Nepal's Koshi

A steady, conditional cash allowance is quietly reshaping household stability and children's schooling for single mothers across Koshi Province. The ESi Mom program, operating in multiple wards of Barahakshetra Municipality, delivers modest weekly...

The Tea Industry’s Tipping Point

The Indian Tea Association (ITA) has pressed the alarm bell on falling tea prices and low-duty imports from Kenya and Nepal precipitating the financial crisis gripping the tea industry. As more than 80% of the total tea produced is consumed within...

Women’s Leadership in Times of Crisis: Trust or Trial?

Upasana Rana Kathmandu, Oct 14 : When nations crumble under crisis, something curious happens and people start looking for a different kind of leader. Not louder. Not tougher. But more trusted. After Nepal’s Gen Z revolution, the country found...

The Rising

Other peoples have risen. Other peoples have risen up to defend their rights, their dignity, and their democracies. In the past 50 years, they’ve done it in Poland, South Africa, Lebanon, South Korea, Ukraine, East Timor, Serbia, Madagascar,...

Lessons for Nepal’s Economy and Governance

The upheaval of September 8–9, 2025, marks a watershed moment in Nepal’s contemporary history. Sparked by a social media ban, it exploded into a nationwide Gen Z revolt demanding accountability, transparency and an end to entrenched corruption....

Birds begin migrating to Tarai from mountains

By Baburam Karki,Barahachhetra, Oct. 14: The arrival of migratory water birds from within the country and abroad has begun across the Tarai region, stretching from eastern to western Nepal. The number of migrating birds has been increasing since...

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...

Are carbon offsets enough to tackle the climate crisis? This tour operator doesn't think so

One of the most climate-conscious travel operators is axing carbon offsets as part of a new climate action plan worth €1.13 million a year. Intrepid Travel, which has been carbon neutral since 2010 and is a certified B Corp, says it has failed to...

Soft Power Or Soft Invasion? The NGO Question In Nepal

Walk into a district office anywhere in Nepal and you’ll find notice boards full of projects. Health camps, farmer trainings, youth workshops, gender sessions and climate pilots. Many are led by NGOs. Many are funded from abroad. The intention is...

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...

Should Nepal reconsider graduation from LDC after recent upheaval?

Amid the country’s economic vulnerabilities and the uncertainty following last month’s Gen Z protests, experts have called for a reassessment of Nepal’s planned graduation from the Least Developed Country (LDC) category, citing the country’s lack...