This is a costly war, and it will divert money from development.

Excerpts from the letter sent by Gerry Fox, Director, Asia & Pacific Program of Amnesty International to Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba this week.

Estimating the number of people with HIV/AIDS in Nepal is as tricky a business as making predictions about the future of the epidemic.

Donors are watching keenly to see what gets cut.

It took a suspension of civil liberties to make us realise we still risk losing the ethos of multiparty politics.

Jayprakash Prasad Gupta-Minister of Information and Communication

Pacifist Poems at a Time of War

What is so special about Christopher Grider, dancer?

As preparations for the football World Cup get underway, England worries about playing indoors, and the Japanese about airplane attacks.

Padma Jyoti