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 ...

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 ...

Banks are oversupplied with money, but the real economy is struggling to get credit. By the first quarter of this fiscal year ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

On the morning of September 6th, a black S.U.V. carrying a provincial minister from Nepal’s ruling party ran over an eleven-year-old girl, Usha Magar Sunuwar, outside her school in the city of ...

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 ...