10+ hour, 36+ min ago   (1225+ words) International Booker Prize-winning translator Deepa Bhasthi is in Kathmandu as one of the mentors at a three-day literary translation workshop at Kathmandu University’s Dhulikhel campus. The workshop, organised jointly by Kathmandu University’s Department of Languages and Mass Communication and the…...

10+ hour, 41+ min ago   (258+ words) New Baneshwar, known for Kathmandu’s busiest traffic junctions, is no longer defined only by the sound of horns and rushing vehicles. It also carries the memory of a day when a movement altered the country’s political course. A year has…...

10+ hour, 56+ min ago   (503+ words) That reality goes beyond Bhotekoshi, to the heart of how Nepal should understand climate change and disaster risk. My experience in public health and infectious diseases has taught me an important lesson: many health risks do not appear suddenly. Small…...

19+ hour, 21+ min ago   (1622+ words) With ten days to go before Nepal’s Prime Minister Balendra Shah addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York, there is much curiosity around how the young leader will frame Nepal’s climate vulnerabilities. Amid mounting economic pressures and the…...

21+ hour, 1+ min ago   (1426+ words) Shanti Belbase, 53, was planning to make sel-roti for dar, a heavy meal eaten by women in preparation for fasting during the Haritalika Teej festival, for her three younger sisters, which began on Sunday. But when she visited the market last…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (639+ words) The Kathmandu Post Nature doesn’t care about your climate conference speech The Earth is warming at an alarming rate, and glaciers are retreating. Somewhere in the developed world, policymakers are still busy calculating GDP growth, energy demand and economic returns....

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (634+ words) The Kathmandu Post Nepalis are still struggling to find cooking gas. The government cannot afford to ignore it Nepalis continue to face difficulties cooking due to ongoing gas shortages. The crisis began with the US–Israel war against Iran. Subsequently,…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (875+ words) Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to New Delhi this week, his first to India in seven years, should further the diplomatic thaw between the giant neighbours, but there are few signs as yet that their business ties will improve. Businesses…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (650+ words) The Board of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage (FRLD) has expressed readiness to consider Nepal’s request for urgent financial assistance following the devastating Bhotekoshi river floods, which Nepal argues were caused by the adverse effects of climate…...

5+ day, 14+ min ago   (1027+ words) For a country that contributes little to global greenhouse gas emissions, Nepal is paying an increasingly high price for climate change. Floods, landslides, glacial lake outburst floods and other climate-related hazards are destroying homes, roads, farms and other infrastructure with…...