Upasana Khadka heads Migration Lab, a social enterprise aimed at making migration outcomes better for workers and their families. Labour Mobility is a regular column in Nepali Times.

Tourism infrastructure not only plays a large role in defining a tourist’s experience and defining Nepal’s identity to the ...

Nepal’s royal rulers navigated the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States successfully, getting both to ...

Like the people of the Swiss Alps, the Langtangpa have been living with avalanches for centuries, and they have used both ...

And despite climate worries, such is the pull of Himalayan mountaineering that the Everest Industry showed no signs of ...

NEPALI SOUL: Ashik Shrestha took his passion for music with him when he went to work in Dubai, and now performs in band (far ...

Asma BK has been running all her life: she ran away from her home in Rolpa at age 13, became a child worker in a brick kiln ...

When the bulldozers started felling trees in the community forest in March, a joint task force of four local guthi put up a ...

Throughout its 260-year history, Nepal has tried to keep an equilibrium between its two giant neighbours. Past rulers have ...

Israel’s ongoing war of annihilation in Gaza has wiped out hospitals, schools, homes, water, and food, reducing the ...

Meanwhile in Nepal, a ‘visit visa scandal’ has broken. The Centre for Investigation of the Abuse of Authority (CIAA) is ...

Nearly 30 years ago, three wild bull elephants, Raja Gaj, Kancha, and Thula Hatti, roamed boldly through the dense forests ...