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September 27, 2026

The Man in Black Glasses at the UN

Nepal’s UN speech was powerful in its portrayal of climate vulnerability but far less complete in explaining the forces behind it. Its strongest arguments about climate justice, broken supply chains and unequal

Diplomacy/Social

Climate Change Helped Prime Nepal’s Glacier Catastrophe

Glaciers throughout the region have thinned by approximately half a metre each year since 2000, Immerzeel says. The glacier close to the collapsed slope retreated more than 300 metres between 2010 and 2026. Its presence was particularly important because, as

September 17, 2026

Nepal’s Tragedy, India’s Blind Spot

Defence/Diplomacy

The article argues that Nepal’s devastating floods and the high-profile NDTV conclave obscured a far more consequential issue in India-Nepal relations: the five-year halt

When the Mountain Broke: Inside Nepal’s Deadliest Himalayan Flood

Columns/Social

At roughly 8:30 AM on 26 August 2026, a wall of water, mud, ice, and massive boulders roared down the Lhende Khola into the

Nepal: Prachanda’s art of Govt formation

January 11, 2023

Columns

Never before in the history of Nepali politics has a convicted politician been visited in Kathmandu’s jail by a parade of luminaries like former Prime Minister Madhav Nepal, Nepali Congress stalwart Arzu

Maoists: Back at the Helm

January 3, 2023

Nepal

In a dramatic, though expected, development in Nepal’s politics, on December 26, 2022, Maoist veteran Pushpa Kamal Dahal aka Prachanda took the oath as Prime Minister of Nepal for the third time.

Nepal’s very own ‘Game of Throwns’

December 14, 2022

Nepal

The second multiparty elections in Nepal on 20 November after the new constitution 2015 have been unique. For the first time, the simultaneous federal and provincial elections were contested as pre-poll alliances