The plan of the attack, as concocted by General Godley, had involved numerous other battalions, and a brigade of four battalions under Brigadier General A H Baldwin now set out to reinforce the ...

In 1970, when Crown Prince Birendra got married, as a wedding present the German government renovated the Pujari Math (pic, below) in Bhaktapur. One of the architects involved was Niels Gutschow (box) ...

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Only by looking back at our past can we chart our future. And for that, Nepal may have to finally sort out its present. On the 100th birth anniversary of the Swiss geologist and development activist ...

Although rocky, Nepal’s transition from monarchy to republic was civilised compared to other countries which have executed deposed monarchs, ransacked the palace or driven them into exile. The state ...

A few days after Christmas of 1952, Paul W. Rose, the highest-ranking American based in Nepal, left Kathmandu with several Nepali, American, and European colleagues for a reconnaissance trip to ...

Kathmandu Valley is where mythology and geology intertwine. The former holds that the Tibetan saint, Manjushree, flew down to Kathmandu. Upon seeing the huge lake, he cut the Chobhar ridge in half ...

In 1989, the Rajiv Gandhi-led government imposed an economic blockade against Nepal because of a dispute over transit treaties and its uneasiness over Nepal’s growing closeness with China. As the ...

No one is better placed to pen the history of the rise and fall of the Ranas than Sagar S.J.B. Rana. He is a family insider and political outsider, an Oxford-educated great grandson of Prime Minister ...

Politically correct history books depict the century of rule by the Rana dynasty that ended in 1950 as being feudal and despotic. What is largely hidden is their contribution to knowledge and the arts ...

There was the time when Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip were welcomed there with all the colour and brilliance that only a night in Singha Durbar could mean. Crystal fountains played under ...

Ketaki Chester was a cousin of King Birendra, and was present with her sister at the Naryanhiti Palace on 1 June 2001 when Crown Prince Dipendra killed nine members of his family, including himself.