Kathmandu Valley is where mythology and geology intertwine. The former holds that the Tibetan saint, Manjushree, flew down to Kathmandu. Upon seeing the huge lake, he cut the Chobhar ridge in half ...

Geologist may have various reasons to believe Kathmandu Valley was once a lake, but they would not be able to match the story of Manjushri. In the high wall of the Kathmandu Valley, at a place called ...

Officials secretly created a deliberate artificial shortage of electricity to enrich themselves while doing untold harm to Nepal's economy Six years ago, while Kathmandu suffered 108 hours of power ...

Prithvi Narayan Shah built the imposing fortress palace in Nuwakot in 1762 as he swept eastwards towards Kathmandu Valley as part of the conquests that led to the formation of the nation state of ...

The full moon in the holy month of Gunla is when Buddhist Newars have flocked to the bahals of the Valley to listen to priests read ancient sacred scriptures. The teachings of Lord Budda is in a book ...

Standing in front of rows of neatly aligned glass jars, Gyatso Bista (pictured, right) runs his hands over the shelf and inspects each of the labels posted on it. Coming from five generations of ...

Padam Parajuli’s right hand was paralysed, but all attempts to treat it had failed. He had almost given up hope when his Christian uncle told him that the pastor at the Rofeka Church in Sindhupalchok ...

When Rajesh Siddhi, Bhaskar Dhungana and Nakim Uddin (pic, left to right) revamped and launched the standalone movie theatre QFX Jai Nepal in Kathmandu over a decade ago, little did they envision that ...

Almost everyone knows that Nepal is the home of the Kumari, but very few have heard that in Kathmandu Valley, two boys also are Living Gods. Tucked away in a narrow alley in the Pako and Om Bahal ...

In 1995, Nepal’s pioneer anthropologist and crusader against the caste system vanished without a trace. As with many such mysterious disappearances, there have been conspiracy theories but no ...

Rajeev Bikram Shah and Udaya Rana have a lot in common. Both come from a family of influence, spent much of their youth studying abroad, and ventured into politics despite having promising careers ...

Till now, the most interesting archaeological finds in Upper Mustang were sky caves containing human remains 1,500 years old, and scriptures and textiles suggesting the region’s links to the ancient ...