UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues Nicolas Levrat on Friday urged Nepal to effectively implement constitutional and legislative safeguards to end discrimination against minorities, especially ...

For decades, cricket has been more than a game in Nepal; it has been a way for different areas of Nepal (cities and villages) ...

Nepal has trained its first cohort of deaf trekking guides, with four women and 21 men receiving instruction ranging from ...

In 2003, the death by police firing of a student protesting a rise in fuel prices pushed Nepal’s student activists to join the प्रतिगमन विरोधी आन्दोलन (Movement Against Regression), which political ...

The Nepal Youth Protest has transformed from online outrage to powerful street demonstrations in Kathmandu. Triggered by the government’s abrupt social media ban and fueled by anger against corruption ...

Eighteen years after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, Nepal’s major political parties were able to ink a four-point agreement to resolve the critical issues of Nepal’s transitional ...

At 11:30 pm on Tuesday, September 9, Rakshya Bam stepped down from an army jeep outside military headquarters in a pitch-dark, locked-down Kathmandu. The 26-year-old hadn’t slept in more than a day.

Weeks after police shot into a crowd of student demonstrators in September, killing at least 19 people, the smoke still hung over Kathmandu, Nepal’s capital. The streets, once filled with ...

Nepal’s Supreme Court has completed hearings on a petition challenging changes to conservation laws and permitting infrastructure development in protected areas. A ruling is expected by Dec. 20. The ...