This SAARC Summit is going to be an India-Pakistan affair. But we don't mind as long as they patch up in Kathmandu.

Despite all the bad news, Nepal has shown considerable progress in the past 12 years. We review some of the little-known success stories.

Maiti Nepal is getting ready to move into brand-new premises, with a little help from German friends.

The National Planning Commission seems to be suited to more authoritarian times. Is there still a role for it?

What if Sir Vidiadhar refuses honorary Nepali citizenship?

HThe high-end golf tourism market could be an easy sell for the Gokarna Golf Course.

In the run up to the cricket Youth World Cup, Nepal has qualified for a place in the International Cricket Council's Youth World Cup to be held starting 14 January in New Zealand. Who will the team have to play, when, and where?

Not forgetting this intensity of mind-numbing sorrow would be a way of remaining faithful to my mother.

"I've written something," poet Viplob Pratik said in one of our first meetings, "and I want you to read them and tell me if they are poems."

Pradumna B Rana-Director of the Asian Development Bank's REMU