This year, Nepal scored 14.8 on the Global Hunger Index (GHI), ranking 72nd globally and being categorized as experiencing a ...

Third grade students take turns reading lessons aloud to their classmates at Mangal Prasad Secondary School in Banke, Nepal. Credit: Amrita Jaisi for Global Press Journal Nepal. The Hechinger Report ...

At the school in Nepal’s Lalitpur district where I work as an English teaching assistant, a large and colorful mural proclaims: “The world is a lock. Education is the key.” For Nepalese students today ...

An excerpt of a conversation between an anthropologist and linguist Mark Turin, PhD and Lava Deo Awasthi, PhD, the first Chairperson of the Language Commission of Nepal. Nepali Times: What is the role ...

We implemented a new curriculum after 2019. We now have school-based assessments until third grade. For fourth through eighth grades, 50 per cent is school-based and 50 per cent is external, according ...

Nepal’s entire diplomatic network should be recalibrated to prioritise climate diplomacy, especially in countries employing ...

A character in Buddhisagar’s bestselling 2010 novel कर्नाली ब्लुज (Karnali Blues) has the habit of adding “हजुरको” (‘hajurko’) at the end of his sentences whenever he speaks. Eventually he runs a ...

Since Maoist forces ended their four-month unilateral ceasefire on January 2, 2006, fighting in Nepal’s civil war has engulfed the entire country. Nearly every one of the country’s 75 districts has ...

While Nepal has a long tradition of civil society organizations, their effectiveness is constrained by problems of fragmentation, politicization, limited capacity, and insufficient coordination. The ...