Two recent share offers by hotels in Kathmandu showed how desperate Nepalis are to invest. But however enticing, not all public issues of shares are as straightforward as they are made out to be. We advise buyers to beware.

The reorganisation of states in India has one important lesson for Nepal. It is the demand for development that creates fissiparous tendencies rather than regional or linguistic chauvinism.

How some domesticated cud-chewing artiodactyl mammals of Chilean origin travelled to Godavari.

With Dasain and Tihar over and less than seven weeks to go for Christmas, Kathmandu's trinket bazaars are gearing up again for the next holiday season.

There were a number of Japanese and Korean expeditions in Nepal this season, but it was the Europeans who stole the show.

For those who can't trek up the highest mountains in the world, the accomplishment of a mountain flight is mountaineering itself.

A benign king is preferable to the overhasty adoption of an already corrupted version of democracy, says the author of a new book on Himalayan kingdoms.