Uphill ride

Bhaidega (arrow) before and after the 1934 earthquake. Photo by : POST courtesy: KATHMANDU VALLEY PRESERVATION TRUST FEB 26 - In 1669, Mughal emperor Aurangzeb ordered the destruction of the Kashi Vishwanath temple.

KATHMANDU, FEB 16 - Kantipur Publications organised a blood donation programme to commence its 22nd anniversary on Monday. A total of 75 individuals donated blood in the event that was held on the publications premises. Ganesh Rai, Makar ...

HETAUDA, JAN 16 - Five people were killed and seven injured when a Tata Sumo jeep met with an accident at Jurikhet along the Bhimphedi-Kulekhani road in Makwanpur on Friday. The passenger vehicle (Na 1 Ja 4275) en route to Kathmandu from Hetauda ...

JAN 10 - Amid all the talk of the bicentenary celebration of Nepal-Britain relations, images, books, and memories inundate me. As a non-political, non-historian, I rely on my own blend of memories and readings, metaphors and time sensibilities to ...

JAN 06 - In the second half of the 18th century, Prithvi Narayan Shah conquered and unified Nepal. Born in Gorkha, this king defined nearly all the country's present boundaries. He achieved this by creating a war machine, a warring state where ...

Archana Pooran Singh has done many things on television. She has acted and has judged comedy reality shows. She is also popular with films, like Raja Hindustani, in her kitty. Now she returns to fiction shows with The Great Indian Family Drama on ...

DEC 13 - I have made a few discoveries about the Nepal-Britain relationship in the past few months. When I am confronted with British connections primarily, I get inundated with images and memories of various orders. I grew with reading English ...

DEC 10 - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's unsolicited advice that consensus, rather than the force of numbers, should produce Nepal's constitution has sown confusion in the media and political circles. Modi, August's darling, has turned into ...