The last mayor of Kathmandu

Aditya Batra in conversation with Keshab Sthapit, a mayor famous for muscling his way to urban renewal

When villages plug in

A Consumer movement is catching on in Nepal.Communities are extending the grid to villages.This threatens to undo the effort put in small-scale …

'Clean environment has to be a fundamental right'

For more than four years now, Narayan Belbase, an environmental public interest lawyer, has been working towards facilitating and mainstreaming …

Bhattarai's power trip

Power, investments to be highlights of Nepal prime minister's first India visit

Nepal declares energy emergency

To generate 2,500 MW of electricity by 2016

River restoration is not just an ecological act

Despite decades of restoration efforts by a rich ensemble of state-development actors, cultural heritage votaries and rights activists, the …

‘Forests can’t survive without communities’

Nepal’s Forest Act of 1993, which allows communities to manage their forests, is admired and emulated by governments and movements across …

A civilisational loss

For more than two decades, Huta Ram Baidya has led the Save Bagmati River campaign. An affable, octogenarian activist and Nepal’s first …

Darkling waters

The Bagmati loses its way in Kathmandu amid political vacuum and urban chaos