Political parties are all set to give the President's deadline to name a consensus Prime Minister a miss as they refuse to budge even an inch to reach a compromise.

After reading the article “Tilaurakot Excavations (2023 – 2029 V.S.)” by Tara Nanda Mishra and the book “The Great Sons of the Tharus: Sakyamuni Buddha and Emperor Asoka the Great” by Subodh Kumar Singh, I was dying to visit Tilaurakot, the place where Lord Buddha spent his 29 years.

As the government prepares to forward the crucial budget ordinance to the...

It is a chilly foggy morning in the outskirts of Kathmandu. Around a dozen dogs of different breeds bask in the warm November sun outside a makeshift house overlooking the Shivapuri hill.

Geeta Gurung likes her job, but loathes the amount of time she needs to spend to get to work in the morning and then back in the afternoon.

Whenever Pushpa Basnet's organisation was in need of funds, a Good Samaritan ...

Following in the footsteps of thousands of pilgrims on an arduous rainy season trek to Gosainkunda also brought some environmental and conservation issues to the fore

“Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman.” In many contextual dialogues, descriptions and scenes in Khalid Hosseini’s scond novel ‘A Thousands Splendid Suns’, the meaning of the given extract has been embodied time and again with the female character having been badly behaved. While presenting a picture of war- ravaged Afghanistan that seems to be a 30 years turbulent history, Hosseini has deeply sensitised the issue of gender-based violence.