Exclusive

Publication

Byline

Location

Mourinho flies Turkish

Kathamndu, May 15 -- Turkish Airlines is collaborating with football manager Jose Mourinho in an ad campaign where he flies business class, enjoys the in-flight menu, and wins a chess match. The Turki... Read More


Ice to water

Kathmandu, May 15 -- Photographer Tashi R Ghale is known for his work in protecting snow leopards through which he won the Disney Conservation Hero Award in 2018. During his research he saw the impac... Read More


Choose Hope: Standing at the crossroads of the future

Tokyo, May 15 -- We are at the tipping point in human history, facing major existential crises. The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has heightened the risk of a nuclear weapon being used since the... Read More


How to win Nepal's first Olympic medal

Kathmandu, May 14 -- Nepal has not won a single official medal ever at the Olympics. With the Paris 2024 Summer Games two and a half months away, how might Nepal win its first bronze? Or silver, or ev... Read More


Patan for beginners

Kathmandu, May 13 -- Kathmandu Valley may be consumed by urban sprawl, but the historic core of Patan has changed little in the last 400 years. Destroyed and rebuilt serval times over the centuries, t... Read More


Who cares?

Kathmandu, May 12 -- Despite provisions in the Constitution, there is still systemic descent-based discrimination against Dalits, especially women, a new report by Amnesty International has said. The... Read More


Jim Simons' gift to Nepal

Kathmandu, May 11 -- James Harris ('Jim') Simons, the mathematician and billionaire philanthropist who set up a foundation to improve Nepal's healthcare system, died in New York on 10 May, aged 86. J... Read More


In transit to the Golden Land

Kathmandu, May 10 -- Unlike tens of thousands of refugees from Bhutan, Govinda Rijal had no inclination to apply for third-country repatriation. Even when his parents Chandra Lal and Devi Maya decided... Read More


From Goa to Thamel

Kathmandu, May 9 -- The Goan Food Festival is a delicious experience, where seafood meets spices and in which Portuguese influence is ever-present. The second episode of the Goan season is happening... Read More


Climate, Democracy and Media

Kathmandu, May 9 -- The climate crisis is upon us today, whether we like to believe it or not. It is going to destroy much of what humanity has built in the last few hundred years, as well as the biod... Read More