As a child, Saraswati Nepali was not allowed to drink from the same water jar as her classmates. When she was thirsty, she had to walk the 20 minutes home and back: the cost of being born a Dalit in a ...

Nepal aims to quadruple hydropower supplies to neighboring India, helping New Delhi meet its growing electricity needs as the war in the Middle East complicates resource planning. The Himalayan nation ...

For more than a century, scholars and policymakers have debated whether democracy and communism can coexist. Capitalism and communism clearly can: Modern China provides the most vivid example of ...

Before he dismantled Nepal’s political elite, Balendra Shah was destroying his opponents in underground rap battles. More than a decade ago, armed with a microphone and his signature sunglasses, he ...

As I have noted in many prior articles, despite the wave of Gen Z protests that have swept through Asia in recent years and carried over to other parts of the globe (from Togo to Madagascar to the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nepal is setting up polling centres for a crucial parliamentary election, six months after a Gen Z-led uprising toppled the ...

Nepal is the first country in Asia to sign an agreement potentially worth $55 million with the LEAF Coalition to reduce emissions from deforestation across three provinces. Experts and community ...

What is the Nepal Fiscal Dashboard? The Nepal Fiscal Dashboard developed by the World Bank Group is a comprehensive, interactive platform designed to provide a granular view of public finances across ...

In recent years, Nepal has been heralded as a global leader in community-based forest conservation. By handing over nearly a third of its nationally owned forest to local villagers in the 1980s, the ...

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 ...

The overthrow of Nepal’s government is the latest in a series of uprisings among India’s neighbors, creating a political churn that complicates its ties. By Anupreeta Das and Hari Kumar Anupreeta Das ...

The son of Nepal’s richest tycoon said last week’s protesters had valid grievances, days after young demonstrators helped topple the Himalayan nation’s government. “The youth are not seeing the ...