Nepal’s history of urbanisation is said to be 500 years old with the conglomeration of Kathmandu Valley, and even till recently, Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala called Nepal a country filled with ...

The Himalayan country will move up to developing country status from its current status as a Least Developed Country in November 2026. Nepali Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli called it “a matter of pride ...

Nepal finds itself at an intersection of two potent forces – a technological revolution sweeping the globe and a dramatic demographic shift. Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation, often seen as ...

Devastating earthquakes in April and May of 2015 took a huge human toll; destroyed homes, businesses, irreplaceable cultural heritage sites and slowed economic growth. The Bank Group is supporting ...

As Nepal prepares to leave the least developed country (LDC) category, it needs to manage the impact on its export sector. In February 2018, the government of Nepal officially requested the UN not ...

In September 2015, still recovering from devastating earthquakes earlier in the year, Nepal adopted a controversial new constitution, accepting discriminatory provisions against two of Nepal's most ...

Nepal needs a single piece of legislation, an Energy Security Act that mandates a minimum strategic petroleum reserve of 60 days within three years and makes non-compliance a matter of ministerial ...

Massive financial support is going to be needed if impoverished Nepal is to rebuild from the devastating weekend earthquake that claimed more than 3,600 lives and flattened buildings, among them some ...

Laxmi Maya Regmi, 72, a refugee from Bhutan, never thought that she would need a vaccination at her age. But on 19 March, she was among the first refugees to receive a COVID-19 vaccine at a settlement ...