As India and Pakistan compete for geographical indication rights, Nepal is drafting its first GI law to protect products from basmati rice to Ilam tea.

For 18 years, the 31-year-old self-taught expert from Palpa has rescued over 10,000 snakes—including a record 107 king cobras—across western Nepal, turning childhood fascination into a lifelong mission to protect…

As marriage loses its place as the only marker of adulthood and respectability, more women are deciding whether marriage fits the lives they want.

Whatever social cohesion existed in Tarai-Madhesh, especially after the brutal suppression of the Madhesh Uprising in 2015, has begun to fragment further with the sudden and inexplicable spread of Hindutva…

With technological advancement, the traditional priority of ‘newsworthiness’ is being outpaced by a data-driven logic of ‘share-worthiness’.

hree municipalities along the Karnali river show how climate policies meant to protect the poorest communities often fail to reach them.

Nobody said anything about the government ledger in the back room, and until someone does it, the next fire will cost us the same as this one.

As long as the state undermines farmers’ plight, it cannot claim to act in the true interests of citizens

People are more willing to pay taxes when public resources are managed effectively and transparently.

General Dhiraj Seth is in Kathmandu on a four-day visit at the invitation of Nepali Army chief Ashok Raj Sigdel